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.