Georgia Sensory Assistance Project (GSAP)
The Georgia Sensory Assistance Project (GSAP) provides families, early intervention providers, special education teachers, regular education teachers, related services personnel, and administrators with the training and information needed to develop and implement individualized supports to ensure children who are deaf-blind have high-quality early intervention and educational opportunities.
Sponsor
United States Department of Education
$1,742,891Principal investigator
Cindy Vail
Professor
Department of Communication Sciences and Special EducationActive since
October 2023
Abstract
GSAP is designed to meet the critical needs of Georgia to improve educational achievement and outcomes for children who are deaf-blind (birth to 22 years of age). GSAP provides families, early intervention providers, special education teachers, regular education teachers, related services personnel, and administrators with the training and information needed to develop and implement individualized supports to ensure children who are deaf-blind have high-quality early intervention and educational opportunities that lead to successful transitions from Part C to Part B as well as to postsecondary education or employment.
In addition to providing workshops, dissemination activities, and specific team training, GSAP uses existing national resources developed through the National Center on Deaf-Blindness and Perkins. To meet the recognized need for identification of children with deaf-blindness, GSAP coordinates identification efforts with appropriate agencies to find children with deaf-blindness and maintain a deaf-blind census. Formative and summative evaluation procedures using quantitative and qualitative measures will be implemented.