LADBP News and Events

  • CVI Workshop This Spring

    The Louisiana DeafBlind Project is hosting a workshop, Cerebral/Cortical Visual Impairment (CVI): Impact and Compensatory Strategies. If you are an EarlySteps provider or a teacher or administrator working with young children with disabilities, we hope you’ll join us at one of our four locations!

  • SKI-HI Training for professionals serving deaf or hard of hearing children

    SKI-HI Training for professionals serving deaf or hard of hearing children

    The Bright School will host a SKI-HI Training for Early Interventionists working with deaf or hard of hearing children at the LSUHSC Human Development Center. This training is designed to provide Early Intervention providers and family flexibility to address the needs of each individual child and give the child full access to language.

  • LADBP launches DeafBlind Intervener Training pilot

    LADBP launches DeafBlind Intervener Training pilot

    The Louisiana DeafBlind Project for Children and Youth (LADBP) launch a Deaf-Blind Intervener Training Pilot, aiming to encourage school districts and educators across the state to invest in skilled interveners. LADBP’s Rose Angelocci, Ph.D. and Nicky Gillies, MSNIC are currently working with a paraprofessional in St. Bernard Parish to trial this new training program.

  • HDC Spotlight: Nicky Gillies, MS, NIC

    HDC Spotlight: Nicky Gillies, MS, NIC

    DeafBlindness affects more than 10,000 children between birth and 21 years of age in the United States, and has over 70 known causes, including Usher’s syndrome, CHARGE syndrome, meningitis, and rubella. Nicky Gillies, MS, NIC and the Louisiana DeafBlind Project (LADBP) work with families and school districts to ensure that they are providing the best…

  • New Voting Machine Demonstration

    New Voting Machine Demonstration

    From Natasha Aymami, HKNC South Central Regional Representative: June 28th from 9am to 3pm there is a request for Deaf and DeafBlind individuals to go to the capital to provide feedback on the new voting machines. There will be a demonstration as well. The address is 660 N. Fourth Street, Baton Rouge, LA; across from the state…