Resources

These resources have been developed and curated by experts in the field to provide support and information for professionals who provide services to children with multiple disabilities and visual impairment (MDVI). Visit our stories page to learn about the impact of successful interventions.

Video Tutorials

Adapt play activities for your child with MDVI to promote interactive play. Interactive play is vital to a child’s development.
Interactive Play for Children with MDVI
This interactive art activity is a valuable learning experience for children with MDVI that facilitates development in the areas of...
Art activity using shaving cream
Learn to make sound and vibration toys for your child using regular and easily available items from your home.
Make your own sound and vibration toys for your child with MDVI
Peeling a mango fruit, an ADL - Hands on approach for teaching and learning.
Activities of Daily Living- Mango Peeling Activity
This video shares some ideas about how to include your child in a hand-washing routine that keeps her safe from infection and...
Good Hand Hygiene

Practical Ideas for Teaching and Learning

Craft activities for children with MDVI at home using a variety of materials.
A Card made By Student With MDVI For His Teacher On Her Birthday
Having Fun through Creativity
Indoor play activities for children with MDVI
A child with MDVI playing with a ball
Indoor Play Activities
Art activities for children with MDVI at home
Pictures of paintings made from homemade colours with onion and potato
Art and Craft Activities
Doing activities hand in hand with children who have multiple disabilities, including those with vision impairment, at home
A young girl with MDVI selecting her favourite vegetable
Activities of Daily Living
Practices to support children with MDVI to maintain good hand hygiene
adult hands under a child's hands as they wash hands in sink together
Maintaining Hygiene and Care for children with Multiple...

Publications & Articles

Despite a year of obstacles and challenges, we celebrate the children, families, and professionals who made it through 2020 along...
2020 year in review. Icons of white cane, hand over braille, books, and pencils.
2020 Year in Review
Information on schemes and concessions related to the rights, certification, transportation, education, and health care of children...
Woman’s hand on top of a packet of paper
Schemes and Concessions for Children with Disabilities
In this article, Barbara Miles, an expert in the field of Dafblind Education explains how hands for children with Deafblindness...
a woman and a girl communicate using tactile sign language
The Importance of Hands and Touch
A curriculum for children with visual impairment and additional disabilities (VIAD) enabling a child towards a happier and healthier...
a teacher writing while a student watches
Curriculum and Instruction
Developing early Communication in Children with Visual Impairment and Additional Disabilities
a student listening to their teacher
Developing Early Communication
Vocational training and independent living for young adults with vision impairment and additional disabilities.
a teacher and student learning through the sense of touch
Vocational Training and Independent Living
From the moment of birth, infants start assimilating information about the world through their experiences of it.
a student feeling a wheat plant by touch
Our Senses and Learning
An introductory explanation of the definition of a special education assessment and why assessments are important for children with...
Kids sitting smiling while one places her hand up to another's for high five
Introduction To Assessment

Webinars/Webcasts

Ms. Sampada Shevde introduces basic strategies to encourage children with MDVI to learn through meaningful activities in a natural...
Teaching Strategies for Children with MDVI (Part 1)
Ms. Supriya Das introduces basic strategies to encourage children with MDVI to learn through meaningful activities in a natural...
Teaching Strategies for Children with MDVI (Part 2)
Ms. Anuradha Mungi introduces basic strategies to encourage children with MDVI to learn through meaningful activities in a natural...
Teaching Strategies for Children with MDVI (Part 3)
Veronika Bernstein, Ph.D. describes the challenges faced by children with visual impairments and their families in developing good...
Webinar with Veronika Bernstein on Good Sleep Strategies
Good Sleep Strategies
In this webcast, Barbara Miles, a well-known author and lecturer, discusses the unique function hands serve for individuals who are...
Reflections on Deafblindness: Hands and Touch
Darick Wright, Coordinator of the New England Eye Clinic at Perkins, speaks about adapting the environment to help maximize the use...
Adapting environment for individuals with vision loss
Dr. Lueck provides an overview of cerebral visual impairment and challenges professionals face in understanding how children with CVI...
Cerebral Visual Impairment

Helpful Websites

A space to share questions, concerns and lessons learned in facilitating successful transition outcomes for students with MDVI in the...
Home page of Transition Planning Asia website
Transition Planning Asia website
This ICEVI publication uses simple language to highlight the needs of children with MDVI. Select local languages available.
A sample page from the Include Me publication shows an illustration of a mother holding her child lovingly surrounded by some Hi
Include Me: Voice of a Child with MD or DB
Get hundreds of activities as well as parenting tips on raising and teaching young children with visual impairment and multiple...
wonder baby logo in colorful alternating letters
Wonder baby