District Partners
The Role of Our District Partners
Our District partners are chosen by the School District and not by the POPDB. In many Districts the person chosen is someone who will have the opportunity to get to know the child and follow them through several years of their educational placements. The person chosen is often the Teacher of the Visually Impaired, the Teacher of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, a District Inclusion Teacher, or a School-based Resource Teacher. In some Districts, the classroom teacher or the District Special Education Administrator has taken on the role. In Districts where there is more than one student with deafblindness, we have found it very beneficial to everyone involved, if the District Partner is involved with all of the students.
The role of the District Partner includes:
• Acting as the primary contact for the Outreach Consultants
• Helping to arrange Outreach visits
• Committing to learning about deafblindness and intervention, so they may be an advocate for deafblind students within the District
• Sharing information within the District to ensure that any new students with deafblindness are identified and referred
• Distributing information to team members from the POPDB staff, ie. Visit Notes, Upcoming courses, Pro-D opportunities
• Acting as School and District liasion and advocate for POPDB within the District
• Checking to ensure students are registered with the Ministry of Education in the Deafblind category
• Attending the annual Deafblind Conference and District Partner meeting presented by the POPDB
District Partner Website: A Site for Sharing our Resources
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