Welcome to the Resources Hub
If you would like to share a favorite resource with other Overbrook School for the Blind families, please email Communications. We welcome your suggestions!
Visual Impairment and Blindness Specific
FREE: Weekly Virtual Groups for Families Impacted by Blindness and Visual Impairments
Educating Communities for Parenting offers supportive services for families impacted by blindness and visual impairments by hosting virtual groups on Tuesdays 1:30-2:30 pm and Thursdays 6:30-7:30 pm via zoom. The groups are very informative and casual.
For more information, contact Anita Kulick at anita@exparenting.org or 215-496-9780.
This site provides family-friendly information and research-based materials on key topics for parents, including visual impairment.
“Family Connect is an online, multimedia community created to give parents of visually impaired children a place to support each other, share stories and concerns, and link to local resources.”
For Children with Additional Disabilites
New Family Resource Group from PaTTAN
PaTTAN now offers curated resources and information specifically for families of deaf/hard of hearing, deaf-blind, and blind/visually-impaired students through its Family Resource Group! Interested families can click here to get this valuable information delivered right to their inboxes. No information about their child needs to be shared beyond the type of information in which they'd be interested (i.e. DHH, DB, BVI). Questions? Please contact Erin Campion at ecampion@pattan.net.
PATTAN Family Resources for Complex Learners
It is recognized that everyone is doing their best to manage work, self-care, children’s online education, and more during the COVID-19 pandemic. Families and professionals supporting children with disabilities face additional challenges. You are not in this alone. The PA Training and Technical Assistance Network (PaTTAN), in collaboration with the Bureau of Special Education, has created this website for families and general educators supporting complex learners in virtual learning. For the purpose of this website, a complex learner is a child, youth, or young adult with an intellectual or significant cognitive disability, multiple disabilities, and/or sensory impairment.
Family Education and Advocacy
People with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) must make many daily and major life decisions, just like people without disabilities. This can include decisions about buying things they need, managing a budget, and talking with doctors about their health care. There are many ways people with IDD make decisions, both on their own and with support. But a person’s ability to make decisions can change throughout their life. It is important to have a plan for how decisions are made and to update this plan regularly. This way, everyone can make the decisions they want. The Arc's Center for Future Planning has created free resources to help.
Download the free documents below to:
Questions? Email us at futureplanning@thearc.org.
Behavior Challenges: What to Say to Your Child's Teacher
When your child has behavior challenges, it can be hard to talk about them with teachers. But having these conversations can help you and the teacher be partners. It also helps you get support for your child at school, even if learning is happening at home. (This resource comes with a worksheet for parents to use in preparing for talking with the teacher.)
https://www.understood.org/en/school-learning/partnering-with-childs-school/working-with-childs-teacher/conversation-starters-for-discussing-behavioral-problems-with-teachers
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