  Project Products
The following is a partial list of the items developed by the Indiana Deafblind Services Project. Some of these products and newly developed ones, will be made available in PDF format on this site. Keep checking for new listings! In addition, all of the project products are available through the Project's Loan Library. For more information, please contact: Indiana Deafblind Services Project College of Education, Room 502 Indiana State University Terre Haute, IN 47809 1-800-622-3035 db@indstate.edu
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Profiles: Individuals with Deaf-Blindness is a monograph based on the etiologies of deafblindness as they appear in the federal classification guidelines. Each etiology listed in those guidelines is discussed using easily understood terms. Some of the etiologies are accompanied by biographical stories. There are fifteen personal stories included in the eight chapter monograph. With each story, personal issues and concerns are shared by these individuals and their families.
Creative Expression: Opportunities for Persons who are Deafblind discusses many of the forms that creativity can take, including painting, drawing, pottery, sculpture, textiles, photos and collages. It provides suggestions on how to assist students who are deafblind in expressing their creativity through these various mediums. It is intended for anyone interested in promoting access to the arts and creative expression in students who are deafblind and who have mulltiple disabilities.
Usher Syndrome: Identification and Understanding is a multimedia package consisting of a book on Usher Syndrome and Screening, as well as two videotapes. The first videotape, titled Usher Syndrome: Understanding the Diagnosis, provides an overview of the characteristics of the three types of Usher Syndrome. The second tape, Usher Syndrome: Screening for Signs of Risk, presents instructions on how to use three simple screening stations to help identify students who may have Usher Syndrome.
Perspectives on Effective Education: A Guide to Including All Children is designed to help educators and parents understand inclusive practices. It demonstrates how inclusive practices support opportunities to improve educational outcomes for all students, based upon their individual learning needs. The information in Perspectives is intended to help develop a process for adapting curriculum and instruction in general education settings.
Planning Today - Creating Tomorrow: A Guide to Transition contains information designed for individuals who are involved in the transition planning process for persons with deafblindness and other disabilities. The purpose of this guide is to introduce common misperceptions encountered during transition planning, the components of transition planning, resource information, and transition terms and definitions. This is done by illustrating the transition planning process as applied to two women who returned home to Indiana from out-of-state school placements.
Helping Young Children with Visual Impairments Make Use of Their Vision is intended to help parents understand the role vision plays in the learning process of their child with a severe visual impairment. It offers suggestions about ways children can be helped to make better use of their vision in order to learn.
Helping Young Children with Visual Impairments Make Better Use of Their Vision - Book 2 is intended to explore some of the differences between looking and seeing by reviewing vision tests, evaluations, and assessments. The information gathered from these tests, evaluations, and assessments may help children make better use of their vision.
