What This Work Is Becoming
Building access, confidence, and connection with DeafBlind communities.
This consulting work is growing into something larger than a single training or conversation. It is about building bridges between DeafBlind people, schools, universities, rural communities, service systems, and future professionals who want to support people with more confidence, dignity, and understanding.
The goal is not to speak for DeafBlind people. The goal is to help create more opportunities for people to learn with DeafBlind communities, build real exposure, reduce fear, and strengthen the systems that often leave people unseen.
The GFO Work
Creating a stronger narrative for access, education, and rural connection.
The GFO work is part of a larger effort to tell a clearer story about what is possible when communities stop treating accessibility as an afterthought. This work looks at how schools, universities, rural areas, and professional training pathways can become more prepared to understand and support DeafBlind people.
The bigger picture
Stronger access begins with stronger relationships: with DeafBlind people, families, educators, interpreters, interveners, students, universities, and community partners.
What I’m Working Toward
New curriculum pathways
Developing education and training that helps students, professionals, and community members better understand DeafBlind experience, communication, access, and support.
Rural school and university connection
Helping connect rural schools and universities with learning opportunities, real-world exposure, and community partnerships that are often harder to access outside larger cities.
Student confidence and comfort
Creating ways for students and future professionals to feel more prepared, respectful, and confident when learning alongside or supporting DeafBlind people.
Community visibility
Supporting work that helps overlooked communities be seen with more accuracy, dignity, and nuance - not as problems to solve, but as people and cultures to learn with.
Ways People Can Help
This work grows through relationship, partnership, and shared responsibility.
Schools and universities
Partner around training, curriculum, guest learning experiences, rural access, and student preparation.
Community partners
Help build bridges between DeafBlind people, families, service providers, educators, and local organizations.
Students and professionals
Stay curious, ask better questions, learn from lived experience, and practice support that centers dignity.