Your Child: New Baby/New Family

Getting lots of information-from other parents, the Internet, and Minnesota Deafblind Project-helped me feel more confident as a parent.

~From Parent Road Map

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Family Time


For New Parents - You and Your Baby
Finding resources for you and your new baby

Caring for Family - You Can Manage Life on This New Road
Advice and suggestions from the Minnesota Deafblind Technical Assistance Project sleeping infant

What makes Families Resilient?
Jean Robinson, Family Support Specialist from Texas offers a quick summary of what helps families to adjust and thrive.

Keeping it All Together
A parent shares helpful strategies for managing life when you have a child with deafblindness.

Impact of Having a Child Who is Deafblind on the Family
This special issue of California Deaf-Blind Services newsletter on Families, begins with an article by counselor/therapist Marlyn Minkin

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Toolbox for Families


Watch the webcast
Love: Challenges of Raising a Child with Disabilities
Parent and author Jane Bernstein talks about life as a parent of a child with a disability.

Find out about Project SPARKLE
Project SPARKLE offers families a program for individualized learning. Find the facilitator for your state.

Family Village
A global community of disability related resources. Comprehensive and user friendly.

What about Siblings?
Read stories from families who have a child who is deaf-blind

Sibling Support Project

Sibling Resources from Family Village

 

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