Services may include transportation to and from special facilities, home visits from professionals trained to teach families how to adapt, and more. Parent support groups are often available, and give parents an appropriate and often much-needed outlet for their feelings of frustration and someone who can share their triumphs. If the person's sensory disabilities are great, and if people in the environment have not made an effort to order the world for him or her in a way that makes it easier to understand, this challenge may be overwhelming. Miles goes on to point out that behavioral and emotional problems are not uncommon for people who are deafblind, and are a normal response to the person's inability to communicate and understand the world. Family and friends who surround people who are deafblind must be aware of this and knowledgeable about what to do to make the world more predictable and safe.
Assistive devices can help.
They are available in categories ranging from aids to daily living to play and leisure or adapted toys, alarm and emergency call devices to cognitive and learning aids, adapted computers and telephones, even ideas for home modifications. Depending on the degree of sensory loss, devices designed to help people who are deaf may be useful, such as a TDD or telecommunications device for the deaf. This equipment lets people who are deaf make telephone calls by typing in text instead of speaking. A similar device for people who are deafblind is the TeleBraille. Instead of the text appearing in a screen on the machine, the text appears in braille, the raised-dot alphabet system.