North Dakota Dual Sensory Project

North Dakota Dual Sensory: What We Do?

Welcome to the North Dakota Dual Sensory Project website. We are a federally-funded, statewide technical assistance and training project designed to support educators and families with children birth through 21 who are deafblind.

The project has six key goals:

• Goal 1: North Dakota will have an effective early identification and referral (EI&R) system to identify and refer children who are deafblind, as early as possible.
• Goal 2: North Dakota families and professionals will have increased knowledge and expectations for a meaningful adult life and improved quality of secondary transition planning for students (ages 14 – 21 years) with deafblindness.
• Goal 3: North Dakota’s educational professionals will have enhanced knowledge of strategies and intensive interventions to increase access to the general education curriculum (GEC) and North Dakota’s K-12 Education Content Standards.
• Goal 4: North Dakota’s early interventionists, teachers, related service providers, and paraprofessionals who serve children and youth who are deafblind (ages birth – 21 years), will have high-quality, research-based professional development training opportunities on strategies to be implemented in inclusive educational environments.
• Goal 5: North Dakota families of students with deafblindness will have increased knowledge and skills to effectively engage with agencies, service providers, and other families to best meet the needs of their child and family.
• Goal 6: North Dakota will have accurate information and data on the needs of children and youth with deafblindness (ages birth – 21 years).

The ND Dual Sensory Project offers several Open Hands, Open Access training modules for credit.  For ND residents who complete the modules, the ND Dual Sensory Project will reimburse you for the recording fees upon successful completion! Questions? Contact Lacey Long at 1-800-233-1737.

WHERE ARE WE LOCATED

We are located at the North Dakota Center for Persons with Disabilities (NDCPD) on the campus of Minot State University:

500 University Avenue West
Memorial Hall
Minot, ND 58707

Voice & TTY: 701-858-3580
Toll-Free: 800-233-1737
EMAIL: ndcpd@minotstateu.edu