Building Assistive Technology Capacity for Louisiana

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Location: La Nouvelle Ballroom, Table 12
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Justin Sims
Building assistive technology capacity for your agency is a challenging feat. It's easy to have a student's assistive technology (AT) needs fall through the cracks unnoticed by professionals. In this session, participants will explore a variety of AT tools and learn approaches to establish a culture of AT success for their agency.

Audience:	Principals/head teachers, Teachers, Curriculum/district specialists
Skill level:	Beginner
Attendee devices:	Devices not needed
Participant accounts, software and other materials:	None will be required
Topic:	Assistive & adaptive technologies
Grade level:	PK-12
Subject area:	Career and technical education, Special education
ISTE Standards:	For Education Leaders: Empowering Leader Support educators in using technology to advance learning that meets the diverse learning, cultural, and social-emotional needs of individual students. Visionary Planner Share lessons learned, best practices, challenges and the impact of learning with technology with other education leaders who want to learn from this work. Engage education stakeholders in developing and adopting a shared vision for using technology to improve student success, informed by the learning sciences.

Proposal summary

Purpose & objective

Participants will:
1) Identify AT tools that have been successful across Louisiana with students in the classroom.
2) Explore strategies and frameworks that ensure AT needs are being met in their educational agency. This includes the SETT framework.
3) Understand that their are AT solutions and supports for all student exceptionalites.

Assistive technology tools that will be demonstrated include but are not limited too AAC, Speech to text, Text to Speech, 3d printed utensils for writing, tools for vision, devices for hearing, eye gazing software, and switch access.

Supporting research

The Quality Indictors of Assistive Technology: https://qiat.org/

Council for Exceptional Children: https://exceptionalchildren.org/blog/sett-framework-and-evaluating-assistive-technology-remotely

Messmer, A. (2013). Students with Learning Disabilities: The Effectiveness of Using Assistive Technology.

Sharpe, Michael E. Assistive technology attrition: Identifying why teachers abandon assistive technologies. Nova Southeastern University, 2010.

Williamson-Henriques, Kendra M. Secondary teachers' perceptions of assistive technology use for students with learning disabilities. The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2013.

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Presenters

Justin Sims, Louisiana AEM

Justin currently works as an Assistive Technology regional specialist servicing central region of Louisiana for LA-AEM. He has extensive experience in the field of assistive technology specializing in tools/strategies for AAC, dysgraphia, and dyslexia. He is also an adjunct faculty member for LSU's department of communication sciences and disorders.