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.

Teaching & Learning Resources

A curriculum for children with visual impairment and additional disabilities (VIAD) needs to reach the goal of enabling a child...
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Curriculum and Instruction
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
Importance of Hands and Touch
a parent helping her child feel and touch vegetables
Importance of Hands and Touch
Our Senses and Learning
a student feeling a wheat plant by touch
Our Senses and Learning
Get hundreds of activities as well as parenting tips on raising and teaching young children with visual impairment and multiple...
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Wonder baby
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
Developing early Communication in Children with Visual Impairment and Additional Disabilities
a student listening to their teacher
Developing Early Communication

Videos

Meet Surpriya Das, a Perkins' ELP Graduate of 2015. After graduating, she returned to India and started training other...
Perkins' ELP Impact: India
Dr. Lueck provides an overview of cerebral visual impairment and the challenges that parents a professionals face in terms of...
Cerebral Visual Impairment
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
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