1. Metropolitan University of Education Sciences
Metropolitan University of Education Sciences Professor Oriana Donoso A. and Felicia Gonzalez V.
The UMCE is a state and public university that trains teachers since The only program that trains teachers to work with students with a visual impairment or multiple disabilities’.
Training professionals by providing them with a master's degree in special education awarded with mention in multiple educational needs, with the participation as a professor of
Dr. Maria Bove.
University building

2. INVESTIGATION exploratory study of the Teaching Learning process in the areas of Language and Communication and Natural Sciences in the Deafblind populations.
2007 – first study
Location of the school population of children with deaf blindness and multiple challenges in the Chilean school system, quality of the services they are receiving.
2017 – 2018
Location of the school population of children with deaf blindness and teaching methodologies of science and language and communication.

3. Research achievements
300 deafblind students are being served in special schools in the different regions of the country. The number of students is directly related to the Chilean population density. Educational services do not meet the quality standards that these students receive It is necessary to train teachers and parents in new methodological strategies

4. Teachers and parents working together, work in the community, a future plan for children.
Diagnosis of the current and future needs of the families of the students, with priority for training needs in the areas of: communication systems, work in the classroom with students with deafblindness and orientation and mobility
Parents, teachers working siting at the teable with books created for trainer.

5. Training Professionals
The profile answer to the mission stated in this magister that is aimed at "training professionals who are capable of promoting quality and educational innovation, promoting the social inclusion in the work with different age groups, in special or regular schools, with integration projects, hospital centers, classrooms, among others".

6. The project trained760 people
in Chile
Covers 17 regions and the metropolitan regions area was divided into 4 areas.
18 teams consisting of a parent and a professional were formed. Each pair replicate the training in regions oriented to impact school parents, teachers and administrators
Chile map long and narrow country, the regions are represented in different colors with a star

7. Teachers work as a team when it comes to these students
Know the impact and importance of the training given to teachers and parents in 2010
Fieldwork questions
What are the communications for this students
What contents of the curriculum that teach
Teachers who work with students who are
deafblind in regular schools with (PIE) and in special schools they know the teaching of science
Seal of the UMCE and the teachers working whit a deafblind students
Teachers work as a team when it comes to these students

8. Fieldwork questions 2017 – 2018 First stage the census.
The initial census indicates that they are mostly in special schools. A smaller number are in regular schools with Integration Projects
Currently deafblind students are being observed in 5 regions of the country.
The didactic strategies used in the curriculum areas of Language and Communication and Sciences are evaluated

9. Master Program
This program is open to any professional with at least one year working with students with multiple disabilities or deafblidness. Participants from any Latin American country are welcome.
Write to :
Felicia Gonzalez V
Oriana Donoso

10. Thank you very much
We will continue working

11. CHILE
A couple dancing Cueca typical of Chile