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The TSBVI Outreach Programs' TX Deafblind Project is currently
in the process of partnering with new local districts to start a new
two-year Teacher of Deafblind Pilot Program. We are very much
looking forward to applying the lessons learned from our first pilot
that, at times, seemed to be under development as we were doing
it. While we always hope to improve and learn through the process
of doing, we also have some changes that we will be making this
time around:
• Two years instead of three –
three years was deemed too
much of a time and resource commitment for both the
Deafblind Project and the partnering districts.
• Limit to a smaller scale –
for our new pilot we will limit
participants to three TDB's, their sensory teams, and students,
across two local districts.
• Establish "Sensory" teams from the outset –
i.e. identify the
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