Assistive Technology(AT): Many Possibilities to Consider

Please join us in the Brubeck Room for a SPED*NET presentation on Assistive Technology.  Assistive Technology (AT) encompasses many possibilities when you look beyond AAC/communication. Alescia Ford, MS, OTR/L, ATP, will break down the three critical components of educational design: Universal Design for Learning, Educational Technology, and Assistive Technology. She will discuss assistive technologies to enable participation, improve curricular access (math, reading, writing, executive functioning), and support inclusion, as well as what AT looks like (from low-tech, mid-tech, to high-tech), when more is needed (consultation and evaluations), how to include AT in the IEP, and why implementation planning is so important.

Alescia, a certified occupational therapist and a nationally certified assistive technology practitioner, evaluates students’ needs for AT, trains students, educators and parents on implementation plans, develops district-wide competencies for AT processes, and consults on literacy support programming, accessibility and Universal Design for Learning guiding principles. She is the owner of Adapt & Learn, a pediatric therapy service provider with clinic locations in Simsbury and Farmington.

Presented by SPED*NET in partnership with Wilton Library and Wilton Public Schools.

Registration suggested.