On this page you'll find a list of useful resources for professionals working with young people and children.

Publications

Our publications section has a range of publications for professionals and other information about deafblindness.  It also has resources that you may find useful for referring families to.

Written for professionals, Quality standards in education support services for children and young people who are deafblind / multi-sensory-impaired explains how to ensure deafblind children and young people access education through high-quality support.

Written by Dr Jan van Dijk and Catherine Nelson, the CD Rom Child-guided strategies for assessing children who are deafblind or have multiple disabilities, includes a wealth of information on deafblindness, many of Jan van Dijk's key papers and five case study assessments, supported by video clips

This publication and many more are available to Sense members and staff to be borrowed from our library. Contact the Information and Advice Service for more information.

Websites

The University of Birmingham: Multi-sensory and deafblindness programme - this programme enables teachers and others working in education-related fields to work more effectively with learners who are deafblind/multi-sensory impaired

Both www.deafblind.co.uk and www.deafblind.com are websites are run by James Gallagher, who is deafblind. Although we are aware that they have not been recently updated, the sites still contain a huge amount of information on deafblindness, with lots of archive pages and links to other sites

The US National Information Clearinghouse on children who are deafblind is The National Consortium on Deaf-Blindness. The website has lots of information, including articles, links, bibliographies on a range of subjects, and the online version of the journal Deafblind Perspectives

Deafblind International is the world association promoting services for deafblind people. The site includes artwork by deafblind people and archived articles from the magazine DbI Review

Deafblind UK is an organisation that works mainly with people with acquired deafblindness and the website has relevant information

The Nordic Staff Training Centre for Deafblind Services website includes information about their role and training courses, their online library catalogue and further links

The Action on Hearing Loss website has information related to deafness, including factsheets on a range of issues

The Royal National Institute for the Blind website contains a mass of information on visual impairment. There are a number of factsheets, including many relevant to people with multiple disabilities

The Sense Scotland website has information and a range of links particularly relevant to Scottish organisations

The Scottish Sensory Centre website has a huge amount of useful information. It includes the Sensory Information Service
(a UK-wide information service for those involved with people with hearing and / or visual impairments). It has a database of information on everything from service providers to types of hearing aid. The site also includes a number of papers and links to many other useful articles.