Professionals-to-Professionals:
Solution Focused Services
About Our Professional-to-Professional Services
In growing response to requests from other agencies and companies, we provide consultation and training
with quality and efficiency.
Deaf-Blind Educational Training
Problem:
You and your agency will start serving deaf-blind individuals and you have no idea how to meet their needs.
Problem:
You have a deaf-blind client ready to work in a new environment, but the employer doesn't know anything
about deaf-blindness.
Problem:
Your deaf-blind client will move into a new living situation, but the care providers don't understand
the client's needs.
Solution: DBSC Basic Workshops!
Topics include:
- Introduction to Deaf-Blind Culture and Communication
- Becoming an Accessible Workplace for the Deaf-Blind Employee
- Effective TTY and Relay Service Communication
- Confidentiality: Laws and Ethics for Service Providers in the Deaf Community
- And more...
Workshops may be a one-time event or include follow up advanced sessions. Workshops can
also be tailored to suit individual needs. DBSC will provide an experienced trainer, two
professional sign language interpreters, and all training materials.
Support Service Providers
Problem:
Your deaf-blind client has a job interview or evaluation. How does your client get there and maneuver
safely through the environment?
Problem:
Your Deaf-Blind client needs to purchase employment-appropriate clothing or supplies. How will your
client do the needed shopping?
Problem:
Your Deaf-Blind client is ready to go visit employment sites to gather applications and information.
How will your client travel and maneuver the environment?
Solution: Support Service Providers!
DBSC can provide trained Support Service Providers (SSPs) to give transportation and visual
information to the deaf-blind person. This includes safe sighted guiding and appropriate
environmental information via sign language or other means. (Note: this role does not take
the place of a qualified interpreter for the meeting itself.)
Braille-Related Services
Problem:
You want to invite deaf-blind people to a meeting. However, you don't know how to reach them.
You don't know what form of print or braille each individual requires. You don't know how to edit
your notice for deaf-blind needs, or where to get the notices brailled.
Solution: DBSC Mailing and Brailling Services!
Our confidential statewide list of deaf-blind individuals and their reading preferences (large
print, braille grade 1 or grade 2) cannot be released to you. However, we can send your mail out
for you. We can produce the materials in all necessary formats with our in-house equipment. With
your approval, we will edit your materials to increase comprehension.
Problem:
Your Deaf-Blind client is ready and motivated to begin braille
instruction. However, your client uses sign language and is not fluent in written English. Who
can meet the communication needs and teach valuable functional braille skills?
Solution: Deaf-Blind Braille Instruction!
Our staff includes braille fluent readers and writers, who are familiar with various levels of
English abilities and how that affects braille use. Our trainers are fluent in American Sign
Language and can communicate directly with your client. Training may include Grade 1 and Grade
2 reading and writing, using a slate and stylus or Perkins braillewriter, label makers, using
refreshable braille displays, and other facets of braille use.
For more information, or for
details and rates, please contact us!
Protocol for Acquiring a Professional Support Service Provider (PSSP)
- Fill out the SSP Request form at least three weeks in advance.
- You may need to contact Jelica Nuccio, Executive Director) for detailed fees information even
though there is a standard fee for PSSP and administration fee.
- Give the completed form to Jackie Engler-Morris at
jengler@seattledbsc.org
- Based on the request form, Jackie will work to recruit a proper and available PSSP. (Sometimes
it takes weeks.) We are responsible to check them for criminal backgrounds and business licenses.
- Based on the request form, Jackie will work to recruit a proper and available PSSP. It
sometimes takes weeks because we are responsible to have a criminal background check on them and
verify their business license.
- Once a PSSP is confirmed, (if you have no SSP preference), Jackie and the PSSP
sign a detailed agreement on fees, roles, logistics, and reimbursements. If you
have SSP preference, then the procedure would be little bit different. If Jackie
is not able to get your preferred SSP, she will then try to get someone else.
She will ask for your approval prior confirming the PSSP.
- If there is no success to get any PSSP 48 hours prior the assignment date, Jackie or Jelica will
contact you and let you know so you may need to have a back-up plan. However, we will charge
you for the administration fee only.
- After all paperwork is done, Jackie will contact you with the name of the PSSP and her/his
contact information. That way the PSSP and you can communicate directly if needed.
- When the assignment is complete, the PSSP will send the invoice to DBSC. DBSC will verify and
pay the PSSP. Then DBSC will send the total amount owed with the administration fee to the vendor (you).
- If you find the PSSP unsatisfactory, please contact Jelica at
jnuccio@seattledbsc.org within 48 hours, and file the
complaint. Then Jelica will work to resolve the dispute within a month.
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