The DeafBlind Children's Fund of Texas was founded on the principle that deafblindness is a unique disability and helping the family of a deafblind child is a unique responsibility. The DBCF program serves the families of deafblind children through intervention, the teaching method that models itself after the education of Helen Keller. Intervenors are not federally or state funded, therefore, DBCF provides funding and place them with qualified families.

The nature of our work is first, to provide deafblind children the same access to the world that other children receive inherently. Deafblind children cannot learn by observation as other children can, creating an enormous gap that must be bridged if a deafblind child is to learn and grow into a useful and productive part of society. By giving deafblind children purpose and direction, intervenors educate completely, closing the gap.

Second, DBCF provides the proper social services to families of deafblind children who are not aware which services are available or how to acquire them. DBCF will facilitate the process by taking families through the correct procedures for effective and lasting results.

Finally, DBCF provides relief by meeting the emotional needs of these families through counseling and respite in restful, enjoyable environments away from the home.

The DeafBlind Children's Fund, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, helps families with deafblind and deafblind multi-handicapped children by providing intervenors, aiding in the facilitation of social services, and supplying relief and respite from the daily hardships of a life less ordinary.

The DeafBlind Children's Fund will give hope and a future to the families of deafblind children. With our three-part focus on intervention, services, and relief care, we will enact a broad-based initiative to provide every family of a deafblind child with a renewed hope for the future through actual in-home assistance, effective and useful services, and genuine strengthening support and rest.

• Deafblindness is a unique disability. It is nothing like blindness, and nothing like deafness. It is a difficulty that must be treated with understanding, patience, and love. Deafblind children cannot learn incidentally. We must meet them in the darkness and reach out to them in the silence. We are responsible to provide every method necessary to give a deafblind child equal access to the world, access that is a natural gift to a sighted and hearing child.


• We believe in the intervenor model of education and assistance at an early age. Deafblind children require a bridge to the world at all times through a highly-skilled 'seeing and hearing' professional that, in turn, gives the world meaning and explanation, and creates motivation and a call to action from the child.


• We understand and recognize the unending stress and intense emotions in the families of deafblind children. It is imperative that we feed the spirits and bodies of parents, grandparents, and siblings of a deafblind child by providing rest and relaxation as well as nurturing counsel in uplifting environments and settings away from the home.


• Finally, we hold fast to the proven idea that deafblind children can and will reach their full potential only when we are willing, able, and resolute to provide them with every opportunity to do so.