Free resources for schools

Our free resources are designed to help you teach your students about deafblindness and to help you support students with sight and hearing loss.

Lesson in a box – Discovering Deafblindness

Your free lesson in a box, ‘Discovering Deafblindness’, is packed full of resources to help you teach students about deafblindness. It includes a lesson plan, worksheets, an assembly, and learning resources for your students. The lesson in a box is a great way to introduce primary and secondary school students to disability and the challenges of living with deafblindness.

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Pupil passport

Our pupil passport can be completed by each student who has sensory loss, and given to their individual subject teachers. This helps teachers understand the student’s individual needs in order to provide the best possible learning environment.

Pupil Passport

What is deafblindness?

This information sheet helps you and your colleagues understand deafblindness (also known as dual sensory impairment and multi sensory impairment).

What is DB

Top tips for an MSI friendly classroom

This information sheet gives you some quick and easy tips and tricks to make your learning environment inclusive and accessible to students with sight and hearing loss.

Top tips

Teach your students deafblind manual

Deafblind manual is a tactile communications method that some people who are deafblind use. It’s really quick and easy to learn, and can be a fun way to introduce sensory loss to your students.

DBM

Support for children and young people

Don’t forget, we support parents, carers and young people through every stage of growing up with deafblindness. We also provide specialist support for deafblind parents.

Five minutes with Claire Manford, PhD researcher

As a charity, we think it’s crucial not just to help and support our members day-to-day but to aim for…

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