For Professionals
- Who are the children who are the focus of this research?
- What is the goal?
- How can cochlear implant centers participate?
- What is required of participating centers?
- Why is this research important?
- Identify and refer potentially eligible children to the deaf-blind project in their state
- Increase awareness and identification of visual impairment in children who are deaf or hard-of-hearing
- Provide specialized intervention and habilitation for children who have combined vision and hearing impairments
- Share this brochure with parents of children potentially eligible to participate
- Share this brochure and information about this research project with children’s hospitals and other facilities who work with children at risk for vision and hearing impairment
- Provide specialized intervention and habilitation for children who have combined vision and hearing impairments
- Share this brochure with parents of children potentially eligible to participate
- Share this brochure and information about this research project with children’s hospitals and other facilities who work with children at risk for vision and hearing impairment
Signs of vision impairment:
- Child demonstrates a lack of visual regard
- Child does not shift gaze smoothly from side to side
- Child does not track horizontally
- Child does not respond to visual consequences as reinforcing
- Child uses vision inconsistently
- Child has significant motor disability
- Child was extremely premature, or had an extremely low birth weight
