Low Incidence Disabilities

Severe and Profound Cognitive Disability, Medically Fragile, Deafblind

Serve as the first point of contact for school personnel and families of students who are severely and profoundly cognitively disabled, medically fragile, and/or deafblind. Serve as an information and referral source for students in this population.
Provide/coordinate regional workshops for professionals and parents of students in this category including those identified through the deafblind census.
Specifically address low-incidence disabilities issues through ESC needs assessments and regional plans and address deafblindness in the Regional plan for Students with Visual Impairments.
Evaluate the effectiveness of the regional activities regarding the three low-incidence disabilities.
Provide technical assistance from a deafblind specialist .
Collaborate with the Texas Deafblind Project to provide on-site consultation to students with deafblindness;
Train and assist districts and Early Childhood Intervention programs to appropriately identify students with deafblindness and report them on the deafblind census;
Collect, verify, and review district deafblind census information and forward it to the Texas Deafblind Project; and
Personally contact every family and at least one professional connected to each child on the census to provide information about the Texas Deafblind Project.

Susan Lawrence

Deafblind Specialist

(972) 348-1590

Gayle McNurlen

Education Consultant, AT Consultant

(972) 348-1598