Story Boxes: Literacy Adaptations for Students Who Are Deafblind

Submitted by Charlotte Cushman on Jul 27, 2014

Collage of creating storyboxes for children who are deafblind Adaptations for a child who has a combined vision and hearing loss will depend on many factors, such as the amount of vision and hearing the child has, age, cognitive abilities, motor skills, and personal interests. This post is the first of four parts presenting different aspects of literacy for students who are deafblind. Many of these techniques or strategies can be used with children with multiple disabilities or visual impairment as well. This particular blog focuses on Storyboxes.

A group of teachers in the Deafblind Program at Perkins School for the Blind presented an hour-long webinar on various aspects of literacy for children with deafblindness: Literacy Adaptations for Students Who Are Deafblind with Christa Hulburt, Ira Padhye, Megan Connaughton, and Marguerite Bilms.

Stay Tuned for more parts of Literacy Adaptations for Students Who Are Deafblind featuring:

CVI and Adaptations for Literacy
Adaptations for Total Deafblindness
Teaching Strategies for moving towards a more traditional approach to literacy

What is Literacy?

finger over braille child writing "ABC" on chalkboard

stack of books baby with glasses reading a book

Communication!

Where to Start?

Learning Media Assessment (LMA) - Assessment for selecting the appropriate literacy media for students with visual impairments. "Literacy media" refers to the way in which students access the general education curriculum.