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RIITE stands for Resources and Interactive Instruction for Training Educators in Deafblindness.
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Project RIITE proposes to develop an innovative inservice training program for individualized study for personnel serving children and youth who are deafblind. The training will use state-of-the-art DVD technology combined with Internet support. This interactive training program is designed to increase educators' understanding of the impact of combined vision and hearing loss and to guide them through the decision- making process of determining the accommodations and modifications that are required for these children to have to access to educational environments. This training model includes instruction and information, simulated experiences with various combinations of vision and hearing losses, problem solving with guided cases studies, and individually completed case studies. This training program will support effective learning through high-level interactivity and learner participation, and the training modules are also useful as a resource once training is completed.
The outcome will be an innovative inservice model of training, using DVD and Internet technology, which prepares personnel to better meet the needs of children and youth who are deaf@id and results in more appropriate leaning environments for these children.