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FHI360 – Disabilities StudiesOSEP funded projects
AT/IT devices & services available to families and educators
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• Assistive Technology (AT) :
• Any low- or high- tech devices used to assist the physical and/or cognitive capacities of individuals with disabilities (in and out of the classroom)
• Any software or apps that makes it easier to complete everyday tasks.
• Instructional Technology (IT): Merging of technologies & devices with instructional principles to improve access to education
• UDL Principles & Guidelines
• Examples of Innovative IT
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Services available to families & educators
1. CPIR
2. Let’s Participate
3. CTD
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Audiences for all 3 projects:
1. Families & care givers
2. Educators (teachers, AT Professionals, administrators)
3. Researchers
4. Personnel preparation programs & Teacher Education programs
5. Family information and training centers
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Center for Parent Information & Resources- CPIR
Goals & objectives:
1. serve as a central resource of information and products to the community of federally-funded Parent Centers
2. streamline efforts on serving families of children with disabilities
3. provide products and materials to support PTIs and CPRCs work with families
4. increase Parent Centers’ knowledge and capacity in specific domains
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CPIR resources
1. Resources
2. NICHCY
3. Workspace
4. Find Your Parent Center
5. Social Media:o Twitter: https://twitter.com/nichcy
o Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nichcy
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Let’s Participate
Goal & objectives:
1. develop an Early Intervention (EI) model to assist preschoolprograms implementing and sustaining practices in effective useof assistive technology (AT) by infants, toddlers and preschoolchildren with disabilities and
2. provide both on-site and web-based training on the ways in which AT can support the participation of young children with disabilities in daily routines
3. develop an AT lending library of a range of devices
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Let’s Participate resources
• AT Supports
• Training
• Lending Library
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Center on Technology & Disability -CTD
Goals & objectives:
1. Increase the capacity of families and service providers to advocate for, acquire, and implement effective AT/IT practices, devices, and services.
2. Provide personal and professional development (PPD) activities (Webinars and online Modules)
3. Develop a virtual library of multimedia, multilingual resources
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CTD resources• Library:
a. Early Childhoodb. Education K-12c. Family & Student Supportd. Transitione. Trends & Research
• Caféa. Webinars
a. Top iPad Apps for Struggling Readers
b. Reading & Writing Strategies with AT
b. Discussion Forum
• Learning Centera. Instructional Modules: AT 101
• Social Media: Twitter
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AT/IT devices: Matching needs with format
1. Format for daily use and/or to access contenta. Electronic/Digital
b. Off the shelf/Modified
2. Needs: a. Blindness or Low Vision
b. Deaf
c. Physical impairments
d. Learning disabilities (examples: Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, Dysgraphia)
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AT/IT devices
1. What makes AT work?
2. Angie-Voice output: help with participation in class and communicate with family
3. Mason- Braille: help to learn reading and writing in the same classroom as sighted peers. Mason demonstrates how he uses his Mountbatten Brailler in the classroom.
4. Jared-Sip and puff switch: allows Jared to run a business creating dynamic graphics and websites.
5. Jean- Support learning: use of iPad in school for note taking and taking tests.
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“Assistive and Instructional Technology Supporting
Learners with Disabilities”