• FSPs / Family Support Providers — Families who share the same experience and are now helping other families with ideas and empathy
    • Support provided by volunteers of the CDBS Network of Family Support Providers.
    • Family-to-family support provided by telephone, video call, or email as well as through in-person and online family meet-ups and events.
  • Technical Assistance (TA) — We meet and collaborate with professionals and families to brainstorm strategies and develop action plans.
    • Foundational and Targeted technical assistance (TA).
    • Onsite Intensive TA for families and educational teams in need of further coaching and consultation.
    • Urgent TA is provided in cases of sudden and significant decrease in hearing and/or vision, significant and unexplainable changes in behavior, and with a newly identified child who is not yet receiving any local educational or support services.
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Have you visited our new updated website? What are you waiting for? You'll find information about our project and services, information and resources on a variety of deafblind topics for professionals and families, Fact Sheets, announcements about upcoming events, and more. Who's excited about another Lowenfeld-Akeson Early Years Symposium? 🤩 🤗 🎉 A great way for a deafblind person to learn about the concept of leaves changing and falling and the weather changing with the new season is for them to get out and experience it for themselves. A windy day can be a great chance to feel the leaves as they fall, step on the crunchy ones, and get some stuck in your hair! 🍂🌬 This a throwback photo to last spring when Myrna and Julie connected with two our wonderful CDBS Family Support Providers at the CA Early Start Partners Symposium. A few of our volunteer Family Support Providers work for the local Family Resource Center which ensures that deafblindness is better understood and families with members who are deafblind are better supported and served. Happy Monday! Do you want to learn about a fun, interactive, tactual way to create and enjoy books with a child who is deafblind? Check our new slide deck on Experience Books! Our CDBS team is very grateful for the wonderful families and dedicated professionals that we support throughout the year. Here is our new Education Specialist, Janelle with some ASL signs that might be helpful this week for Thanksgiving. 🦃🍁🧡 We’re excited to share that CDBS has a new Educational Specialist! Please welcome Janelle Dowling who joined the team this past month and fits rights in. When you think of "deafblind", what comes to mind?

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