Interested in online Training Webinars for Families? California Deafblind Services is hosting a series of online Family Training Webinars including topics such as Transition Planning Using a Person-Centered Process, Virtual Stories: Sharing the Story of Your Child and Family with Educators, and Active Learning: Principles and How to Encourage Active Learning for Your Child. Please see the attached flyers in English and Spanish for more details and to register:
The purpose of the registry is to provide basic information about people with combined vision and hearing loss in the United States. This information is to be used as a census of persons who are DeafBlind, as a planning tool and for research purposes. All identifying information is confidential.
The registry data also helps collect data in support of services or programs in the state for the DeafBlind community. For instance, if there is a need of specific services for the DeafBlind community, the HNKC registry data can be utilized as justification of the needed additional services.
It is vital to maintain an accurate census in order to provide various services and programs to Louisiana’s DeafBlind citizens. If you are a person with combined vision and hearing loss, parent/guardian, or service provider for an individual who is DeafBlind, please take a few moments to fill out the registry at this link: www.helenkeller.org/hknc/national-registry
Join us for 7th Annal DeafBlind Day (Known as White Cane Day and Helen Keller DeafBlind Awareness Celebration)
When: Thursday, June 23, 2022
Listed Plans
Time
Description
9:00 AM
Gather/socialize at the front of Lafayette Recreation and Parks, 500 Girard Park Drive, Lafayette, LA, and then walk the one-lap path-track around the park in suppport of DeafBlind Day
11:00 AM
Dine/gather/socialize at the ABL centered outdoor lawn and Daigle Hall, 420 Cherry Street (off 409 West St. Mary Boulevard), Lafayette, LA for Lagneaux’s famous Jumbo Chicken or Jumbo Steak Burger Platter with chips and drinks. NOTE: To get a FREE Borden’s Ice Cream, all is required to be at Daigle Hall at 11:00 to receive a ticket.
Noon
Announcement of proclamation of DeafBlind Day by City-Parish of Lafayette Mayor-President
12:30 PM
Play indoor and outdoor water games
2:00 PM
Final drawing of National 50/50 Rally given by NADBA and then gather/socialize at Borden’s Ice Cream, 1130 Jefferson Street, Lafayette, LA
Admission: CHEAP $5.00 for the following promotions:
FREE BBQ Jumbo Burger Platter/Drink
FREE participation of indoor and outdoor games
FREE Borden’s Ice Cream
Deadline: Required to pay by June 1st for final headcounts of ordering specialized patties. No walk-ins on the day of the event!!!
Hand money in person to one of our co-chairs, Dan Arabie or Michelle Eaton, or mail payment directly to Dan Arabie, 106 Dempsey Drive, Lafayette, LA 70503 with a memo line: 2022 DB Day
Everybody is invited to join us for a fun-filled all-day event
Each year the Louisiana Department of Education submits a grant application to the U.S. Department of Education for state set aside funding through the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). The Department uses these funds to support its priorities for students with disabilities.
As they develop their grant application for Federal Fiscal Year 2022 that begins 10/1/2022, they are asking for feedback from families of children with disabilities to better understand what activities the public views as important.
Please assist them by completing this survey by Friday, March 11, 2022. It should take no more than five minutes to complete and personally identifiable information is not requested.
From Natasha Aymami of the Helen Keller National Center:
There is a film about the Usher Syndrome Type 1C that is genetically tied to the Acadian population. This film will feature Dan Arabie, a leader in the DeafBlind community in Louisiana and a very proud Cajun. It includes the Babineaux family that has a son with Usher Syndrome that hosts the annual Ush One See 5K, which is a non-profit organization to create awareness and raise funds for a potential cure to stop the vision loss aspect of Usher Syndrome Type 1C. It will also feature Dr. Jennifer Lentz’s research on USH1C. The film will be shown at the Acadiana Center of Arts in Lafayette Louisiana on March 12th at 5pm. It is a FREE event.
REGISTER NOW and be online or on site part of more than 40 presentations and workshops, brand new research and all the vibrant energy of the green city under the sun.
We are an international not-for-profit membership organization focused on the needs of individuals who are deafblind, their families and the professionals who provide services. We have a constitution and are managed by a volunteer Board from around the globe.
We are focused on bringing together individuals and organizations to share information such that they can develop and provide quality services in the regions of the world from which they come.
You may know someone with a visual disability—perhaps you have one yourself. But did you know how such individuals access the internet? They use assistive technology called a “screen reader,” which speaks aloud the text on a digital screen using a speech synthesizer.
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