Webinar: Facilitating and Supporting the Social-Emotional Development of Learners Who Experience Deafblindness – Session 1 presented by Dr. Susan Bashinski

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This session will include foundational information regarding the domains of social and emotional development for learners who experience deafblindness. The presenter will discuss both the content central to the domains of social and emotional development, as well as strategies for facilitating learners’ skill development in these areas. 
Key content will include: 
•    Importance of emotional development and the role of social skills to both school and post-school success 
•    Criticality of trust when working with learners who experience deafblindness 
•    Interconnectedness of trust and social-emotional development
 •    Building a learner’s positive self-image
 •    Connecting the identification and communication of one’s own feelings to a positive self-image
 •    A close examination of social skill development: what, how, when, and where these skills can and should be introduced and practiced
 •    Ways in which to partner with families to facilitate social skill development