Deafblind Intervention Strategies for the Home

Welcome to DISH, Deafblind Interventions Strategies for the Home. As the family support specialist for the Deafblind Services Division at the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind, I have prepared several versions of DISH parent trainings.  In this web version you can click on the topic below to go to information on that subject.  After an introduction, there will be links for more information. Please let me know if you find any links that don’t work.

CORRY HILL Corrynfadb@comcast.net

Basic Course - Overview of Deafblindness
Behavior - Why Do They Do That?
Biobehavioral States - When Are They Ready To Learn?
Communication- Sending And Receiving Messages
Calendar Systems - Customized Dayplanners (Week, Month, & Year)
Concept Development - Combating the Fairy Godmother Syndrome
Family Issues, Stress, Anger, Grief, Frustration - Survival Tools to Help
IFSP/IEP and Teams - A Necessary Combo
Movement – Encourages Development
Paperwork, Assessments and Evaluations - Making Paperwork Work For You
Routines - The Best Way to Encourage Learning
Senses, Sensory Integration - More Than Five
Social/Sex Education - Better Early Than Late (An Ounce of Prevention)
Transition- Change Is Hard
Multiple Disabilities, Health & Emotional Issues - More Pieces of the Puzzle
The History of DISH – What and where did it begin