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for students with deafblindness and their educational teams. Our sustained effort in
educating stakeholders in Pennsylvania about intervention was recognized by the
National Center on Deaf-Blindness (NCDB) when they were tasked by the Office of
Special Education Programs (OSEP) to create national recommendations for
improving intervener services. (For a complete copy of the National
Recommendations to Improve Intervener Services, please visit
http://interveners.nationaldb.org/). Over the course of several months, project staff
shared insights with NCDB from our efforts to take on the issue of intervention within
a state with a relatively high population of students who are deaf-blind, 382 on the
2013 child count, which are spread across a geographically large area. We, like many
other state partners in the national network, were challenged with providing high
quality, multi-media training to all members of educational teams in a way that met
the diverse and intense needs of students who are deaf-blind.
Fast forward to the Fall of 2012, and our partner NCDB was challenged to
create a high quality, open access resource which would include accessible slide
presentations, photographs, and learning activities that capture the best of what we
know in the field of deaf-blindness. (For more information on the OHOA modules and
for information on how to register please visit:
https://nationaldb.org/library/page/2269). We were honored to be included as co-
creators of this rich resource because we knew there was an intense practical
application for such modules in our state. Staff members from the PaTTAN
Pennsylvania Deaf-Blind Initiative were included in both the Advisory Committee, as
well as the creator/writing teams. A teacher of the Visually Impaired from Berks
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