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Perkins’ series of on-demand webcasts are presented by experts in the field of visual impairment and deafblindness. Depending on whether your interests are professional or personal, you will find topics of interest. Click on the titles below to watch a particular webcast. After viewing a webcast, we encourage you to converse with the presenter, link to additional information on the topic or download the presentation outline by clicking on the designated button. We will look forward to answering your questions and receiving your feedback.

Select the webcast that you would like to view from the following list.

  • Accessible Science: Life Science
    By Kate Fraser
    This webcast is the first in a series on accessible science focuses on making Life Sciences Accessible to Students with Visual Impairments. Perkins Science Teacher Kate Fraser outlines teaching strategies and adaptations to make science lessons and activities accessible to students who are visually impaired. The webcast goes along with the debut of a pilot Accessible Science website (www.Perkins.org/accessiblescience). This site features activity plans, product tips, materials, and other resources for science teachers working with students who are visually impaired.

  • Adapted Physical Education
    By Matt LaCortiglia
    Based on the upcoming publication, "Run, Play, Move," this webcast offers a planning model to develop physical activities for individuals with disabilities. FAIER is an acronym for each aspect of this model -Foundation, Awareness, Implementation, Evaluation, and Refinement.
  • CHARGE Syndrome: An Overview
    By Pam Ryan
    In this webcast, Pamela Ryan, Perkins School Psychologist, offers an overview of the characteristic features of CHARGE Syndrome and discusses the very diverse ways these features may manifest themselves in children. She talks about some of the early medical complications that many children face and how these issues affect development and learning.
  • CHARGE Syndrome: Teaching Strategies for Children
    By Sharon Stelzer
    Sharon Stelzer, a long term teacher in the Perkins Deafblind Program, discusses the impact of CHARGE Syndrome upon the student, and strategies a teacher can implement to create a good learning environment. Establishing schedules and structure as well as offering the student opportunities to make choices are stressed. Sharon also talks about the benefits of helping students with CHARGE Syndrome learn the art of negotiations.
  • CHARGE Syndrome: The Impact on Communication and Learning
    By Martha Majors
    This very insightful webcast explains the physical, sensory and neurological issues shared by many children with CHARGE and how these issues can affect their success in school. Martha Majors, who has served many children with CHARGE in the Deafblind Program at Perkins, offers guidance for educators in developing an effective educational program that will improve the emotional wellbeing and success in learning for students with this syndrome.
  • Conversations: A Personal Reflection About Deafblindness
    By Barbara Miles

    In this webcast, Barbara Miles, a well-know as an author and lecturer, discusses her approach to engaging in conversations with students who are deafblind. She encourages people to think of how they converse with their friends and try to replicate the elements of those successful interactions in a way that is accessible to a child with limited vision and hearing. For example usually people initiate a conversation because the other person expresses a willingness to talk, through a smile or some other cue. Miles offers alternative strategies for making that connection when the person with whom you want to converse can neither see or hear you.

    More information about Barbara Miles
    http://www.tsbvi.edu/Outreach/therapy/theoretical.htm

    http://www.dbiconference2009.it/dbi2009/popup/network6.htm

  • The Communication Portfolio
    By Susan DeCaluwe
    In this webcast, Susan DeCaluwe discusses the development of the Communication Portfolio for learners with deafblindness and multiple disabilities. This tool, that is jointly developed by family members and professionals, creates a common and very personalized view of the learner’s communication skills, abilities and challenges across all environments.
  • Early Literacy for Students with Multiple Disabilities or Deafblindness
    By Deirdre Leech
    Students with multiple disabilities, including deafblindness face many learning challenges. They do not learn literacy in typical ways.  Often they do not have exposure to books and literacy based materials. Children with hearing loss may not have heard stories read aloud, and may not have used books on tape. The goal for these students is to maximize access using specialized formats.
  • Love: Challenges of Raising a Child with Disabilities
    By Jane Bernstein
    Jane Bernstein, a parent and author of “Loving Rachel” and “Rachel in the World” - books which look at life with her daughter who has developmental disabilities was the keynote speaker at the 26th New England Regional Seminar for Children with Visual Impairments and Their Families (birth-7 years of age). This webcast is a tape of her keynote presentation.
  • Mealtime Skills
    By Sue Shannon
    Sue Shannon, an occupational therapist at Perkins School for the Blind, describes some of the challenges faced by students who are blind in learning mealtime skills. It focuses on and  provides video demonstrations of effective strategies for teaching the skills of pouring, serving, utensil use and cutting. Running time 30 minutes
  • Parents as Ambassadors
    By Robbie Blaha
    Author/Expert Robbie Blaha has worked with students who are deafblind for more than thirty years. In the fall of 2008, she was the keynote speaker at the Discover Conference, held on Perkins School for the Blind’s Watertown, MA campus, where she shared her wisdom, insights and humor with parents and educators.
  • Reflections on Deafblindness: Hands & Touch
    By Babrbara Miles
    In this webcast, Barbara Miles, a well-known author and lecturer, discusses the unique function hands serve for individuals who are deafblind. For people with vision and hearing impairments, hands become eyes, ears, and a voice. Barbara’s realization that hands have so many critical roles changed the way she interacts with the hands of children who are deafblind.
  • Social Skills for Children and Youth with Visual Impairments
    By Tom Miller
    The ability to develop friendships and interact with other students is a common concern for parents of children with visual impairments. This Webcast demonstrates how to analyze and adapt teaching strategies to teach social skills to students who are visually impaired or deafblind on an equivalent level with their peers. Tom's presentation on Social Skills for Children and Youth with Visual Impairments is part of a larger book called “Welcoming Students with Visual Impairments to Your School." and is currently available in the Perkins store.
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