Today's podcast features 3 amazing guests with professional and/or personal experience in working with children with Down syndrome and Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD) and/or Cortical Visual Impairment (CVI).

Maurice Belote has decades of expertise in the field of Deafblindness. Belote is a Deafblind specialist, Co-chair of the National Coalition on Deafblindness, adjunct faculty for two teacher training programs, and retired Project Coordinator for California Deafblind Services.

lse Willems is the Senior Director of the CVI Center at Perkins School for the Blind. She has worked at Perkins since 2010, working with students with visual impairments, dual sensory loss, and multiple disabilities, as both a Teacher of Students with Visual Impairments (TVI) and a Teacher of the Deafblind.

Jennifer Saenz, DO, MPH, a primary care physician and parent of a child with dual processing challenges and Down syndrome.

Suggested Resources:

https://www.perkins.org/cvi-now/

https://makeiteasiertosee.co.uk/

Article (available for purchase): Facilitating Listening Skills in Children who are Visually Impaired with Additional Disabilities of Deafblindness

If you would like to suggest a topic for us to cover on the podcast, please send an e-mail to [email protected].

If you would like to partner with the Down Syndrome Center, including this podcast, please visit https://givetochildrens.org/downsyndromecenter.

We are thankful for the generous donation from Caring for Kids – The Carrie Martin Fund that provides the funding for the podcast recording equipment and hosting costs for this podcast.