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OSEP Impact Story: Making a Difference

“Making a Difference: Professional Development for Early Intervention With Children Who Are Deafblind,” was created in response to a request from the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) to tell a story highlighting an achievement related to improving outcomes for infants, toddlers, children, and youth with disabilities and their families. The story describes why the National Center on Deafblindness chose to create a module for early intervention practitioners, what makes it unique, and how state deafblind projects and NCDB can use it to help make professional development on this topic more widely available.

A baby who is deafblind sits on a cushion and smiles. She has a tracheostomy tube.
A young boy who is deafblind sits on the floor with his mom and plays with a puzzle. He has a tracheostomy tube.