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Info Center

Welcome to NCDB's Info Center. Here you will find information about deaf-blindness, educational practices for children and youth, and the National Child Count. Our goal is to help users find high-quality resources and avoid information overload.

Information includes links to a wide variety of resources—factsheets, websites, articles, videos—for families, service providers, and anyone else involved in the life of a child with deaf-blindness. We have also kept all of our popular legacy publications from previous OSEP-funded projects (see bottom of page). 

If you are having trouble finding what you need, please email support@nationaldb.org.

Frequently Used

Open Hands, Open Access (OHOA): Deaf-Blind Intervener Learning Modules

Teaching Children Who Are Deaf-Blind: Professional Development for Educators

Literacy for Children with Combined Vision and Hearing Loss Website

NCDB Practice Guides

NCDB Products

NCDB Legacy Documents

Causes of Deaf-Blindness

What you'll find in our info center

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Hannah on bicycle.

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Deaf-Blindness Overview

Learn about deaf-blindness, the diversity of the population and their educational needs, and view profiles of amazing children and youth.

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Malik and teacher signing.

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Info Topics

Find resources on the wide array of practices that help children and youth with deaf-blindness learn, develop, and lead meaningful lives.

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Liam with mom

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National Child Count

Access state and national data on children and youth who are deaf-blind, including demographics, causes of deaf-blindness, and more.

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An aide and young boy are sitting at a table playing with a plastic toy.

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Practice Guides

A series of guides that outline the essential components of instructional practices commonly used with children who are deaf-blind.

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Two teachers sit side by side at a table working together.

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Professional Development

Find information about professional development opportunities for teachers and related service providers about how to teach children who are deaf-blind.

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Family of four

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Recursos para Familias

Selected resources for Spanish-speaking families of children with deaf-blindness, including fact sheets, articles, learning modules, and webinars.

Other Sources of Information

Perkins

In addition to what you find on this website, there are many other great sources of information about deaf-blindness. NCDB's most extensive partnership in this area is with Perkins School for the Blind. The research librarian at Perkins' Hayes Research Library is a part-time NCDB employee and NCDB and Perkins  work closely together to stay up-to-date on the literature on deaf-blindness and make it available to families and practitioners.

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Contact Perkins Library

Info Consortium

In January 2019, NCDB began a new group called the Deaf-Blind Information Consortium. It consists of agencies that, in addition to other services, make information about deaf-blindness available to a national audience. Its purpose is to share ideas and resources and improve the coordination of information on deaf-blindness provided to families and service providers throughout the United States.

Members

Legacy Products

Practice Perspectives

Authentic Assessment

Children Who Are Deaf-Blind 

College Students Who Are Deaf-Blind 

Harmonious Interactions 

Path to Symbolism 

Teaching Prelinguistic Communication 

Transition 

Universal Design for Learning 

Factsheets

Communication Interactions: It Takes Two

Developing Concepts with Children Who are Deaf-Blind

Early Interactions with Children Who are Deaf-Blind

Expressive Communication: How Children Send Their Messages to You

The Importance of Orientation and Mobility Skills for Students Who are Deaf-Blind

Literacy for Persons Who are Deaf-Blind 

Overview on Deaf-Blindness

A Psychological Evaluation of Children who are Deaf-Blind

Receptive Communication: How Children Understand Your Messages to Them

Recreation and Leisure 

Talking the Language of the Hands to the Hands

Other

Project SALUTE Materials (Successful Adaptations for Learning to Use Touch Effectively)

I Wish I Had... Wisdom from Parents of Children Who are Deaf-Blind 

Introduction to Sexuality Education for Individuals Who Are Deaf-Blind and Significantly Developmentally Delayed 

Research on Real Life - 2001 and 2006

The Intervener in Early Intervention and Educational Settings for Children and Youth With Deafblindness

Communication Fact Sheets for Parents 

Self-Determination for Children and Young Adults Who Are Deaf-Blind

Support Service Provider White Paper

National Transition Follow-Up Study of Youth Identified as Deafblind: Parent Perspectives