Description:
Legal requirements are clear - students with disabilities have the same civil right to a free and public education as all other students.  Those rights are often overlooked, however, when schools purchase electronic curriculum products. The buck stops at procurement.  Learn purchasing practices that help your school ensure access to the general curriculum for all students as more learning opportunities move to electronic formats.

Speaker Biography:
Sharron Rush is co-founder and Executive Director of Knowbility, a nonprofit advocacy and training organization with the mission of ensuring equal access to technology for students with disabilities.  Knowbility is the foremost IT accessibility trainer in the US and has won numerous awards for excellence and innovation from foundations, government agencies and community organizations.  Sharron consults on accessibility issues with Fortune 500 companies as well as with school districts and regional Education Service Centers.  Sharron wrote the book Maximum Accessibility in 2002 with Dr John Slatin and is a frequent presenter and speaker.  Most recently, Knowbility won the 2010 Employer of the Year award from the Texas Rehabilitation Association and Sharron delivered the keynote address at the Southwest Conference on Disability in Albuqerque New Mexico in October 2010.

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

1. Participants will understand legal responsibility (and liability) for provision of accessible learning materials.

2. Participants will understand basic concepts of information technology accessibility as applied to learning materials and virtual schools.

3. Participants will acquire tools to build accessibility requirements into RFP language and build accessibility validation into procurement process.

Additional Information: http://www.atia.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3628

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CEUs
This activity is offered for up to 0.2 CEUs (1.5 hours 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:

2011-ATIA-Webinar-AT11-WEB10-Love.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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Certificates are sent as .pdf email attachments.