Intervention with families who’s children are deafblind

Abstract

The family is the primary agent mediator between the individual and the other units of the company. Interfered in cases of the presence of a change in the child's development. The present study aimed to implement and evaluate an intervention program that provides increasing opportunities for developing new skills in parents, about the possibilities and techniques of communication more viable with their deafblind children. Two families that have daughters deafblind (labeled 7F and 9F) , pre - linguistic , both with bilateral profound hearing loss associated with low vision monocular participated . Data collection occurred 106 meetings with families, distributed forms of distinct activities: initial assessment, meetings, open classes, information exchange, home visits, and final evaluation. The most prominent aspect of the families were the development and expansion of communication resources. This fact has promoted positive and important changes in the behavior of daughters. Probably the progress and achievements made by the participants only became feasible due to the constant contacts established between school and family context.