NAME OF
ACTIVITY
INTENDED
AUDIENCE
OHOA
Modules
1-4
Paraprofessionals,
Teachers, Related
Service Personnel,
Administrators,
Parents
OHOA
Modules
5-8
Paraprofessionals,
Teachers, Related
Service Personnel,
Administrators,
Parents
LEARNING FORWARD
STANDARD(S)
ALIGNED
Learning Communities
STATE LEARNING STANDARDS
ADDRESSED
Learning Communities
Social Emotional Learning Standards
Goal 2: Use social-awareness and
interpersonal skills to establish and
maintain positive relationships
C: Use communication and social skills
to interact effectively with others.
Social Emotional Learning Standards
Goal 2: Use social-awareness and
interpersonal skills to establish and
maintain positive relationships
C: Use communication and social skills
to interact effectively with others.
EXPECTED EFFECT ON STUDENT
LEARNING OR SCHOOL
IMPROVEMENT
Participants will report
increased efficacy in ability to
teach students with deafblindness using a modified
version of the The Teacher
Efficacy in Deafblindness
Education Scale (TEDE).
Participants will report
increased efficacy in ability to
teach students with deafblindness using a modified
version of the The Teacher
Efficacy in Deafblindness
Education Scale (TEDE).
IMPACT ON STUDENT
GROWTH
There will be a change
in teacher attitudes;
students will have an
increase in joyful
behaviors
There will be a change
in teacher attitudes;
students will have an
increase in initiations
of communicative
behaviors
Illinois Content Area Standards
Section 28.340 Standards for the LBS II/Deaf-Blind Specialist
a) Foundations – The competent deaf-blind specialist understands the philosophical, historical, and legal foundations of special education.
1) Knowledge – The competent deaf-blind specialist understands:
D) clinical, functional, and legal definitions of deaf-blindness, blindness/visual impairment, and deafness/hearing loss.
b) Characteristics of Learners – The competent deaf-blind specialist understands how disabilities impact the cognitive, physical, emotional, social,
and communication development of an individual and provides opportunities that support the intellectual, social, and personal development of all
students.
b) Characteristics of Learners – The competent deaf-blind specialist understands how disabilities impact the cognitive, physical, emotional, social,
and communication development of an individual and provides opportunities that support the intellectual, social, and personal development of all
students.
1) Knowledge – The competent deaf-blind specialist understands:
B) the complex and unique effects of combined vision and hearing losses upon all learners who are deaf-blind;
C) the diversity within the population of learners who are deaf-blind;
D) the potential isolating effects of combined hearing and vision losses upon the learner who is deaf-blind;
E) the potential impact of the combined effects of hearing and vision losses upon the learner's opportunities for incidental learning;
J) the major etiologies of deaf-blindness and the possible implications of etiologies in teaching the learner who is deaf-blind;