Deaf-Blindness Certificate

Program Coordinator: Sandra Warren (107-A Rivers Building; 252-328-2699; warrens@ecu.edu)

The certificate in deaf-blindness will provide teachers and other school personnel with knowledge and skills necessary to work with students with deaf-blindness and additional impairments. The overall objective of the program is to prepare classroom special educators and/or other school personnel to provide best practice, research based instructional and related services. Specifically, candidates who successfully complete the certificate will have a broad-based knowledge of the characteristics of students with deaf-blindness, strategies for classroom instruction, skills in developing and implementing communication systems, and strategies for collaborating with and supporting families.

Applicants seeking admission must be graduate students in a degree or certificate program. Admission is based on completion of the ECU certificate application or the add-a-certificate form if in a degree program and approval by the program coordinator.

The certificate program requires 15 s.h. as follows: