Description:
For two decades in assistive technology, school districts have been promoting the use of assistive technology.  But are we reaching all stakeholders, including our general educators, our special educators and parents. This webinar will explore new ways to conceptualize and deliver training.  What can districts do to go beyond face to face training and move toward just-in-time, as well as, job embedded training.  It will address the move from an expert model to a mentoring model.  It will address the shift from a face-to-face training model to the use of web-based tools; from a training emphasis on tools to an emphasis on curriculum.  This webinar will discuss ways that the HIAT team is achieving training for all using social networking, online meetings, web based screen capture tools, online courses, and professional learning networks to promote universal design for learning.  Find out how a small assistive technology team is addressing AT training in a large school district. 

Speaker Biography :
Dr. DeCoste is an occupational therapist and a special educator with over 25 years of experience working with children with disabilities.  She has worked in the field of assistive technology (AT) for over 20 years.  Currently, she is the team leader for the MCPS High Incidence Accessible Technology team. The role of the HIAT team is to build the capacity of school teams, to help staff more independently use technology to support learners in the general education curriculum. The HIAT team focuses on staff training, as well as the development of on-line resources.

Denise is the coauthor of the Handbook of Augmentative and Alternative Communication, (Singular/Thompson).  She is the author of Assistive Technology  Assessment: Developing a Written Productivity Profile (Don Johnston, Inc.). She is also a coauthor of AT Teams: Many ways to do it right (National Assistive Technology in Education Network). 

Learning Outcomes:
As a result of this activity, participants will be able to:

1. Describe a rationale for the shift to more effective methods of training that will impact more staff.

2. I dentify new tools for training and the purposes for each of these new professional development strategies.

3. Describe ways that a small assistive technology team focusing on “high incidence disability” issues  can reach out staff to promote universal design for learning by developing professional learning networks in individual schools.

 

Additional Information: http://www.atia.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageID=3847

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CEUs
This activity has been reviewed by AAC Institute and is offered for 0.2 CEUs (1.5 hour of instruction).

To register for CEUs, click on the link below to download the Evaluation and Learning Assessment Form, complete the form, and save the file using this file name model:

2010-ATIA-Webinar-Nov10-Lastname-Firstname.rtf.

Then send the file as an email attachment to ceus@aacinstitute.org. If any difficulty is encountered in using this form, write to ceus@aacinstitute.org to request an alternative file format. In the body of the email, include:

Name
Assistive Technology Role (SLP, OT, family, etc.)
State (if USA), Province (if Canada), or other country

Download Evaluation and Learning Assessment Form now.

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