East Carolina University Teacher Support Program

East Carolina University Teacher Support Program for Students with Deafblindness

Eastern Carolina University offers a free Teacher Support Program for families, teachers, administrators, and other professionals working with eastern North Carolina students with deafblindness.  They can provide support in a number of areas such as:

• Determining whether children and youth qualify for the deafblind registry,
• Offering on-site consultation and technical assistance
• Implementing communication-based positive support and intervention
• Facilitating communication development
• Using adaptive technology
• Designing evidence-based individualized instructional approaches
• Integrating academic and functional curricula
• Developing IFSP, IEP, and Transition plans
• Improving functional vision, hearing, and sensory integration

• Facilitating inclusion
• Engaging in assessment and person-centered planning

For more information about the program, go to:

http://www.ecu.edu/cs-educ/ci/sped/dbproject/Index.cfm