BC Provincial Outreach Program for Students with Deafblindness

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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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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.

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