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Don't Forget About Assistive Technology in the Transition Process

Description Part 2

Presented by

Janet Peters and Bryan Ayres

Center for Technology

And Disability

Webinar May 11, 2015


Session Overview

•Reviewing the Discussion•Transition Resources •Your Next Steps?•Questions


Discussion Forum - Janet

What does it take for an IEP team and student who uses or needs assistive technology to mutually assess the student's capacity and exchange ideas?


Janet’s Resources

• Hey Can I Try That Forms• WATI Forms for Student Engagement • Video Modeling for Student Interaction


www.educationtechpoints.org


www.wati.org


Video Modeling Social Skills


Discussion Forum - Janet

What are some suggestions for how a student who uses assistive technology can learn to build a network of supports?


www.punch-in.org


Punch-In Employment Course


5 Modules


Discussion Forum


Discussion Forum - Bryan

What are some strategies or techniques that can be used to teach good habits in order to improve and sustain AT use?


Good Habits for AT Use

• Care and use of device(s)• Identifying your resources• Vendor or device specific• Environmentally or task specific• Practice trouble shooting and problem solving

constantly• Identify back up plans

• Target specific areas from your QIAT-PS self-assessment that need improvement. (specifically self-awareness, self-advocacy, evaluation and problem solving)


Teaching Good Habits for AT Use• Take a careful and thoughtful look at your AT policy

and practices in the K-12 setting. Building local AT capacity will provide resources for better outcomes in the higher education setting.

Resources• www.qiat.org• http://www.sc.edu/scatp/cdrom/integratingat.htm


Resources for Strategies and Techniques for Teaching Good Habits to Improve and Sustain AT Use• http://www.resnaprojects.org/nattap/RESNA.html

--- A very good connection for local, regional, national and international assistive technology resources.• http://www.edutopia.org/article/assistive-

technology-resources --- Edutopia has published a very comprehensive resource list from 2013-2014 with links to teacher and user tools.• https://www.ahead.org/sigs --- The Association on

Higher Education and Disability pages for special interest groups.


Discussion Forum - Bryan

Imposed collaboration does not work well in the adult world. How can this concept be taught to teens or young adult AT users?

Well, this was probably worded poorly but what we are really asking here is how can effective collaboration be taught. We know that we don’t always get to collaborate with like-minded people so we have to learn some pretty sophisticated interaction skills!


Factors influencing collaboration

Teacher's shouldn't expect their students to work together effectively without explicitly teaching and modeling collaboration skills. These skills include:• Active listening• Respect• Manners• Positive Attitude - be uplifting to team members• Focused• Social Awarenesshttp://learninginhand.com/collaboration/


Problem Solving Process—Fertile Ground to Practice Collaboration• Define the Problem• Analyze the Problem• AT Device/System Assessment• Set Goals• Plan and Implement Interventions• Evaluate • Action Plan to Address Evaluation Goals

That’s right! Collaboration is an on-going process


Questions?


Thank You For Your Attention!

Janet Peters, [email protected]

Bryan Ayres, [email protected]


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