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Program Details
Concurrent Sessions
A: Promising Technology Applications with
Students Who are Deaf/Hard of Hearing
Barbara Strassman, and 'Your Telecommunications
Network: Is It Supportive of Assistive Technologies?' with Barbara
Keefe
This session will give participants the opportunity to see how interactive
television (ITV) can enable students to have access to field-based learning
opportunitites without leaving the college campus. Assets and limitations
of ITV will be discussed, with a focus onthe technological challenges
to captioning video for students who are deaf/hard of hearing.
B:
Providing Access to Computers and the Internet for Students with Physical
Disabilities
Deborah Newton
Assistive devices, special software, and adjustable features of standard
operating systems will be demonstrated. These technology tools allow people
who cannot use their hands to use computers and the internet.
C: Technology Tools for Students Who are Blind/Visually
Impaired
Jean Balutanski, Seham
Mohamed, Ellen Specht
This session will demonstrate screen magnification software, screen
reading software, and several video magnifiers which enable blind and
visually impaired students to independently complete the requirements
of college coursework.
D: Making Informed Software Purchasing Decisions
Patricia
Hendriks
We
will discuss "How can LEA's make informed software purchasing decisions?"
We will discuss the MAR*TEC Learning Technology Preview Center with it's
four unique surveys. This preview center allows local educational agencies
to make smart purchasing decisions about educational software. Incorporated
into this center is a "technology-based instructional product accessibility
survey." Educators can review software based on accessibility needs and
as well as browse other practioners recommendations.
Hands-on
Sessions
1: Interactive Seminar with
Mike Paciello
During this interactive seminar, participants will be exposed to various
tools for publishing and validating accessible web content. Materials
and resources will be made available for participants to take with them
back to their schools and organizations.
2:
Reading and Writing Tools to Support Students with Learning Disabilities
in High School and College with Amy
Dell and Anne Disdier
College coursework typically requires
heavy amounts of reading, research in the library and on the internet,
organizing ones thoughts, and expressing ideas clearly in writing - tasks
which often pose significant difficulties for students with learning disabilities.
This hands-on session will give participants an opportunity to explore
a series of powerful software programs which can enable college students
to complete their academic work independently and successfully. Included
will be talking word processing programs, word-prediction programs, graphic
organizers, portable notetaking devices, and scan/read systems.
Closing Session
Providing Assistive Technology Services on
Campus: Making It Happen
Jean Balutunski, Seham
Mohamed, Wolf Shipon
The leaders will discuss the nuts and bolts of setting up an adaptive
technology lab on campus, making assistive technology choices, selling
the idea to administration and faculty, coordinating with IT staff, maintaining
and upgrading hardware and software, and providing training to students
and staff.
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