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MAPS and PATHS

Tools for facilitating transition to adulthood for students with deafblindness.

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One Page Handouts

Find your favourite POPDB Handout in this new section of the website.

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Tactile Working Memory Scale

POPDB Teachers Emily, Meaghan, and Allana completed training in the Tactile Working Memory Scale

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Nov 7, 2024

Waiting Beads

For students with deafblindness, waiting can be very difficult because they may not be receiving enough information from the environment to know how long they will have to wait to…

Oct 7, 2024

Wait Time: Why It's Worth The Wait

Providing wait time is an instructional strategy often recommended by teachers. But how do we know it works? Emily and Allana take a closer look at the strategy and provide you with…

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Title slide of Maurice Belote's POPDB video

The Need for Closure

October 20, 2023

Maurice Belote joined POPDB to talk about the basic human need for closure and its impact on children and youth who are deafblind. A lack of closure can lead to ambiguity which turns to anxiety and stress in most individuals. Maurice encourages us to plan so that students with deafblindness can learn in environments that favour predictability.

BC Provincial Outreach Program for Students with Deafblindness