By Chris Tabb
Sound Travels: Evaluation, Collaboration, and Development Tools for Individuals who are DeafBlind is a collection of documents designed to aid in evaluating the unique environmental needs of travelers who are deafblind. There are tools to collaborate with other team members such as the Audiologist, resources for understanding the roles of service providers, activities for developing auditory skills, and more.
The collection includes the following sections:
Environmental Sound Considerations for the Audiologist and the Orientation and Mobility Specialist
“Students with deafblindness need extensive training from infancy to transition age to learn to detect, discriminate, and identity environmental sounds.” This section examines:
A series of items as a guideline for the collaborative efforts of the Audiologist, Teacher of Deaf and the Hard of Hearing, and the Orientation and Mobility Specialist, including:
Activities using residual hearing include:
Students with deafblindness often have a core team to address their complex needs. These include:
This tip sheet is designed to help the TDHH (Teacher of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing) determine the extent to which a student’s vision and hearing loss impacts his/her ability to move and travel with purpose and safety in the environment of home, school and community. It includes considerations such as:
Access the full collection of documents.