Open Hands-Open Access Modules: Stories of
Adoption for State Specific Purposes
Katie Humes, Washington Sensory Disabilities Services,
khumes@psesd.org
Maurice Belote, California Deaf-Blind Services,
mbelote@sfsu.edu
Amy Parker, National Center on Deaf-blindness,
parkera@mail.wou.edu
It began as a network-based initiative to address a common challenge-
the need for high quality training resources to support the roles of interveners
for students who are deaf-blind (Parker, Malloy, Gense, & Killoran, 2013).
While this is still the primary purpose of the Open Hands- Open Access
(OHOA) Deaf-Blind Intervener Learning modules, this multi-media resource,
developed by the National Center on Deaf-Blindness through partnership with
state deaf-blind projects, parents, teachers, interveners and other community
supporters, has become a useful tool for state partners to offer high quality
outreach to diverse groups of learners in states.
There are two ways to participate in OHOA: within hosted and un-
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