Connections is a partnership between the Maryland State Department of Education and the University of Maryland at College Park. This project supports children in the environments where they live and go to school by providing resources, training and technical assistance.
Connections serves children and youth frequently referred to as deafblind.
This means individuals having vision and hearing impairments, the combination of which causes such severe communication and other developmental and educational problems that they cannot be accomodated in special education programs solely for children with deafness or children with blindness. Some children who cannot be evaluated with formal vision and hearing tests, but function as if they have both vision and hearing losses, are also eligible for services.