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Deaf & Hard of Hearing and Visual Impairments - Special Education
Deaf & Hard of Hearing and Visual Impairments
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Birth - 3 Resources
- Student Attendance Acc Handbook update 2024-2025
- TAC changes for 0-3 DHH & VI
- ECSE & PK Placement for DHH and VI
- TSBVI flyer - Identifying Young Children with VI & Blindness
- Flow Chart for Infants with Suspected Vision or Hearing Concern
- Summer Services for Birth - 3yr old DHH & VI
- ECI-Prior Written Notice/Consent Form
- ECI Newsletter with "red flags" for DHH, VI, & Deafblind
- ECI Progress Notes for Betty Hardwick & Central TX
- ECI Progress Form - for Little Lives
- Referral - ECI Deaf Hard of Hearing or VI
- ESC Child Find Referral
Texas Resources
- State of Texas Eye Report
- Eye Find Brochure
- Technical Assistance: Child Find & Evaluations
- Books Beginning at Birth - free books for birth - 4yr
- Texas' Early Learning Pathways - alignment & guidelines
- Checklist - Early Childhood
- Infant & Preschool Resources - TSBVI
- Little Texans
- Child Find flyer from TEA
Blogs, websites, handouts & more
- CASEtools - Interest-based Everyday Learning Activities, Parent & Practitioner Interest-Based Everyday Child Learning, and Asset-Based Context Matrix
- Teacher Tools Takeout - Grab & Go trainings for Teachers & Parents
- Paths to Literacy - Emergent Literacy, and Helping Young Children Develop Emergent Literacy Skills
- Literacy for Children with Combined Vision & Hearing Loss
- Tactile Discrimination Ideas OT Mom
- Wonder Baby
- Almost 100 Motor Activities for Infants & Toddlers
- Blind Babies Foundation
- Child Development Checklist
- CVI Journey
- 50 Cool DIY Toys for Fine Motor
- Vroom Educational website/app (routines, brain-based learning)
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"Baby Proofing" your home for a child with VI from All About vision
Vision Resources
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What is Active Learning?
Active Learning is an approach based on the work of Dr. Lilli Nielsen. It is not just a piece of equipment, such as a "Little Room" or a HOPSA dress, but rather it refers to a total approach for promoting the development of individuals with severe multiple disabilities. It contains an assessment, a curriculum, specifically-designed equipment, and instructional strategies that support learners to be active participants in their surroundings.
This approach is closely tied to evidence-based research, such as the work of Jean Piaget's developmental stages of learners. It views the child's development holistically, including not only motor, cognitive, and sensory skills, but also social and emotional development.
What type of learner benefits from an Active Learning approach?
The Active Learning approach can be used in conjunction with other approaches, such as the work of Dr. Jan van Dijk. Though initially this approach was designed for individuals with visual impairments and deafblindness, it has proven to be effective with individuals with other signicant disabilities, such as autism and cerebral palsy.
It is an approach that can be used with all learners, but is most effective for those who have significant multiple disabilities and are functioning in the 0-48 month developmental level. The Active Learning approach can be used with individuals with various visual conditions, such as CVI (Cortical Visual Impairment) and ONH (Optic Nerve Hypoplasia), as well as with those who are deafblind or medically fragile.
We invite you to explore the world of Active Learning!
Ideas of Things You Can Make
Resonance board - and Little Rooms configurations
Documenting Progress in IEP Goals and Benchmarks
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Accessibility - Ebooks/Readers
iOS Apps
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Computer Accessibility
Keyboarding
Eye Gaze
Apps
Voice Over
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Deaf and Hard of Hearing Resources
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Deaf and Hard of Hearing Resources
General & Early Childhood Resources
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Infant and Toddler Resources
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