Trainings

The Florida and Virgin Islands (FAVI) Deaf-Blind Collaborative can provide training on a wide variety of topics, including:

  • understanding and accommodating multiple disabilities;
  • understanding and accommodating deafblindness;
  • functional implications of vision loss, hearing loss, and deafblindness;
  • providing effective early intervention for deafblind babies and young children;
  • accommodations for assessment and alternative assessment
  • designing and providing effective special education supports and services;
  • providing access to general education curricula and environments;
  • providing Blind/Visually Impaired (BVI) and Deaf/Hard of Hearing (DHH) expanded core curricula;
  • choosing and utilizing assistive technology;
  • and many other topics.

Free training may be provided to families, educators, educational teams, schools / districts,   
and other professionals or organizations serving children and young adults with deafblindness.