Overview
Meet Tyler and follow him through his journey from preschool to post secondary. Meet Tyler’s extensive team members and experience the yearly Assistive Technologies and Assistive Technology Services required to ensure effective use and implementation of his AT in school. View the wide range of Assistive Technology over time that Tyler utilized to independently engage in classroom activities and why we add an extra “T” for the impact of time to the SETT framework when working with our students and considering AT. You’ll leave this presentation appreciating why we can never turn our backs on Assistive Technology.

Learning Objectives

1. Describe one or more impacts of time on Assistive Technology Service Delivery in one student’s school career
2. Demonstrate five different Assistive Technologies over time, from childhood to post secondary, with a student with cerebral palsy.
3. Identify one or more factors of the power of Universal Design and Mobile Technologies in the school career of a child with Cerebral Palsy.

Strand
Education & Learning: Early Intervention – 12

Target Audience
Accessibility Professional; AT Specialists; Disability Services; Educators; Instructional Technologist; Occupational Therapists; Paraprofessionals; Rehab Therapists; Speech-Language Pathologists; Special Education Educators

Experience Level
Introductory

Content Area
Professional Area

ATIA 2020 Conference Recording
This course was given at the ATIA 2020 Conference on Friday, January 31, 2020 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Continuing Education Credits
For Satisfactory Completion and Continuing Education information, please visit: ATIA Online Education CEUs

This course is offered for the following CE Provider Credits:
AOTA; IACET
For: 0.1 CEU Units.

Start date of ASHA CEUs offering: April 1, 2020
End date of ASHA CEUs offering: November 30, 2023

This course was offered for 0.1 ASHA CEUs (Introductory level, Professional area).

Speaker/s:
Barbara Welsford
ATCS - SSRCE
Over thirty years of experience in the field of assistive technology (AT) designing training programs for teachers, administrators, paraprofessionals, parents and students. As AT Specialist for SSRCE I offer direct Assistive Technology service delivery to students in the Nova Scotia public school system assessing for appropriate assistive technology, training teams, purchasing and placing AT and collaborating with other professionals, students and parents to ensure successful implementation and use of Assistive Technology. I have extensive experience teaching assistive technology and Universal Design courses at the university and college levels via face to face training, synchronous online learning through Blackboard Collaborate, Zoom and Go To Meeting and asynchronous training via Moodle. In 2003 I was a lead in planning and implementing an international ATAINS conference on AT at the Nova Scotia Community College, Lunenburg Campus and w also, more recently planned and implemented an international conference on Universal Design, Assistive Technology and SAMR Technology Integration September 29, 2018 on the South Shore of Nova Scotia. I currently sit on the Education Standard Development Committee for Accessibility for Nova Scotia and I am a committee member of the AT&UDL Lead Team for Nova Scotia and highly involved in developing an Assistive Technology Strategy for Education in Nova Scotia. I have a Masters of Education in Special Education Technology, hold an Assistive Technology Professional certification from RESNA, and have an Assistive Technology Specialist Degree from CSU with a certificate in LD and AT from Cambrian college. I am also an Apple Distinguished Educator class of 2011.
Relevant Financial Relationship: Yes
Salary from employment NS Common Services Bureau
Relevant Non-Financial Relationship: No