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Recommended Teaching Strategies
Educators who work with individuals who are deafblind have a unique challenge to ensure that the person has access to the world beyond the limitations of their reach. The most important challenge for teachers (as well as parents and caregivers) is to meaningfully communicate. Some basic guidelines for communication include:
Many of the teaching strategies for individuals with visual impairments and hearing impairments can be used with individuals who are deafblind with modifications made for the communications needs of the individual.
Source Retrieved 4/20/2012
- Individuals who are deaf-blind will often need touch in order for them to be sure that their partner shares their focus of attention.
- Exploring objects should be done in a "nondirective" way, allowing the individual who is deaf-blind to have control
- The individual may have very slow response times. Therefore, the teacher should allow time for the student to respond.
- Touch cues
- Object symbols
- Sign language
- Gestures
- Picture symbols
- Fingerspelling
- Signed English
- Braille
- American Sign Language
- Lip-reading speech
- Pidgin Signed English
- Tadoma method of speech reading
- Large print
Many of the teaching strategies for individuals with visual impairments and hearing impairments can be used with individuals who are deafblind with modifications made for the communications needs of the individual.
Source Retrieved 4/20/2012