AssisTechKnow Schedule At-A-Glance
October 9, 2014
GRAND: Keynote
8:00 to 8:20 a.m.
Session 1
8:40 to 9:40 am
Session 2
9:50 to 10:50 am
Session 3
11:00 to 12:00 noon
ROGUE
THORNAPPLE
CEDAR
PINE
iPads in SpeechLanguage Therapy
Alternate Access/
Alternate Output (Part 1
of 2-hour session)
UDL: Assist Tech Tips to Use
Whole Class (2-5 Reading &
Assessment Focus)
STRENGTHENING
YOUR CORE with
PRC
Mary Kay Anderson
Kent ISD VI and O&M TC’s
Diana Zimmerman
Robin Pegg
Nicole Andreas
Tina Pagnucco
ROGUE
THORNAPPLE
Supporting Common
Core, Complex Text &
Your Struggling
Students
Quick & Easy Formative
Assessments Using Mobile
Applications
Sue Hardin
Andrew Steinman
ROGUE
THORNAPPLE
GRAND
Let’s Chat the
High(tech) Way!
Teresa Bosley, Jessica
Brink, Rhonda Hines &
Lori Pitts
COLDWATER
CEDAR
Alternate Access/
Alternate Output (Part 2
of 2-hour session)
Tools of Engagement
Robin Pegg
Dave Tchozewski
GRAND
COLDWATER
PINE
Leveraging iPad’s
Power to Support Visual
Learning Among
Students with Special
Needs
David Bennett
CEDAR
PINE
Technology Based
Strategies to Support
Struggling Math
Learners
Making the Most of an iPad
in the Early Childhood
Classroom
Add Some Chrome to
Your Classroom:
Seriously Shiny Tips &
Tricks
Refresh Your Teacher
Toolbox with Wow
Websites!
Tips & Tricks for Organizing
Your Gmail
Using Literacy Tools
Directly in the Cloud
Kate Fanelli
Peter Schaafsma
Ron Houtman
Rosanne Burden
Dave Tchozewski
Ken Grisham &
Stephanie Timmer
Visit Exhibitor Area
ROGUE
Acceptance or
Abandonment: Addressing
Psychological Aspects of
AT through Team
Collaboration & the
Assessment Process
Annemarie Connor &
Hung Jen Kuo
Session 5
2:20 to 3:20 pm
COLDWATER
Low Vision Students? How
About Strategies for All
Students!
Lunch On Your Own
12:00 noon to 1 00pm
Session 4
1:10 to 2:10 pm
GRAND
GoTalk Now App – AAC
and Much More!
ROGUE
THORNAPPLE
Evernote in Education: The
Elephant in the Classroom
Chris Tonge & Amy Baad
THORNAPPLE
GRAND
Writing Supports for the
Struggling Writer on the
iPad and Chromebook
Pam Shehabi, Laura
Griffith & Colleen Kracht
GRAND
COLDWATER
CEDAR
Eye Gaze Access to Speech
Generating Devices for
Children with Severe
Disabilities
Tobii + Dynavox –
This is Going to Be
Great!
Kindy Segovia
Melissa Hoffmann
Dan Lipka
COLDWATER
CEDAR
Alignment of AT/AAC
with MTSS
Aided Language Modeling –
The Missing Piece to AAC
Low Tech Sensory
Tools…from Pre-School
to High School
Technology Diet
Visual Strategies
Robin Pegg
Linda Hartman
Deb Schuitema
Gayle Underwood
Rachael Langley & Maribeth
Schueller
Full schedule and handouts at
assistechknow.org
PINE
Technology Triage:
Keeping Your Sanity!
PINE
Assistive
Technology
Solutions – Print,
Math and More!
Jon Rupert
Join us on Twitter #ATK14
AssisTechKnow Schedule At-A-Glance
October 9, 2014
PC Lab
Pine
Coldwater
Room
Rogue
Room
Board
Room
Thornapple
Room
Registration &
Door Prizes
Cedar
Room
Grand
Room
Vendor/
Bostwick
Presenter
Room
Staging
Vendors
Bostwick
Vendor &
Presenter
Staging
Tamarack
Kent ISD Educational Service Center
2930 Knapp NE – GR MI 49525
Parking Lot 11
Algonquin
Cafe
AssisTechKnow Breakout Schedule Thursday, October 9, 2014
Rogue
Thornapple
Grand
Coldwater
Cedar
Pine
Rogue
Thornapple
Keynote 8:00-8:30 am
Jennifer, age 29, is physically and mildly mentally impaired, since birth, but given her strength, determination
and love of life, she has a long list of growing accomplishments. Jennifer’s contagious personality and her
truly inspirational story will make a lasting impression!
8:40 – 9:40 am
GoTalk Now App – AAC and Much More!
Mary Kay Anderson, TC, GRPS
The GoTalk NOW app is a full-featured, customizable AAC app for the iPad that turns your iPad into a dynamic
GoTalk in seconds with an easy-to-use editor. Use it for communication, social stories, sequencing activities, and
much more! Learn the how-to’s here!
Low Vision Students? How About Strategies for All Students!
Kent ISD VI and O&M TC’s
Students with visual impairments require strategies within the classroom and school environment to access text
and other school materials, manage the visual 'clutter' and information in their environment, demonstrate their
learning through writing, assessment and other activities, navigate spaces, changes and unpredictable schedules
and more. Guess what? So do your other students! Many of the same strategies and adaptations apply to all.
Join us to learn how to implement universal practices - from no tech to high tech - for everyone!
iPads in Speech-Language Therapy
Diana Zimmerman, SLP & Karen Mortensen, SLP Preschool, Newaygo County RESA
This session will provide you with a brief introduction to a variety of apps useful in speech-language therapy
sessions for preschool through school age. These apps will target articulation, semantics, syntax, receptive
language, and pragmatics. The presenters have used the iPad with Preschool through 5th grade over the past four
years.
Alternate Access/Alternate Output (Part 1 of 2-part session)
Robin Pegg, Assistive Technology Consultant, Eaton ISD
In order for students to become effective communicators with AAC, they need to first see AAC in action! More than
just modeling, aided language input is a strategy that can be implemented across all environments and all
communication partners. Learn the key features of aided language input and see an example of how school teams
can begin implementing this strategy in an intentional way. (Part 1 of 2-hour session)
UDL: Assist Tech Tips to Use Whole Class (2-5 Reading and Assessment Focus)
Nicole Andreas, Computer Science Teacher, Kent City Community Schools
This presentation will cover sites, apps and ways to incorporate read aloud access/assistance for all of your
students. We will also look at two sites that have accessibility features but may be used whole class for formal and
informal assessments. BYOD
STRENGTHENING YOUR CORE WITH PRC
Tina Pagnucco, MA SLP, Educational Consultant-Michigan, Prentke Romich Company
Learn the importance of Core Vocabulary, motor planning, and implementation tools in PRC devices.
9:50 – 10:50 am
Supporting Common Core, Complex Text and Your Struggling Students
Sue Hardin, Assistive Technology Consultant, Macomb ISD
Are you concerned about your struggling readers, CCSS and complex text? Join us as we explore digital tools to
support fluency, vocabulary, organization, digital marginalia, readability, text structure and comprehension. You’ll
leave with the resources and strategies you need to ensure that all of your students can attack and learn from
complex disciplinary text. (Part 2 of 2-hour session)
Quick and Easy Formative Assessments Using Mobile Applications
Andrew Steinman, Educational Technology Consultant, Kent ISD
Formative assessments are extremely important for monitoring the progress of student understanding, but who has
time to not only create these assessments, but also administer them in class? In this session, you will learn how to
quickly and easily create meaningful formative assessments using an array of mobile applications. You will also
learn how your students can utilize these assessment applications on a variety of school and/or personal devices.
Grand
Coldwater
Cedar
Pine
Rogue
Thornapple
Grand
Coldwater
Cedar
Let’s Chat the High(tech) Way!
Teresa Bosley, OTR and Jessica Brink, MS, CCC-SLP, Comprehensive Therapy, Rhonda Hines, OTR and Lori
Pitts, MA, CCC-SLP, Forest Hills Public Schools
Interactive inter-professional approach using tablet technology to increase group social skills for elementary
children. See how occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists and children work together utilizing
tablets to improve social skills.
Alternate Access/Alternate Output (Part 2 of 2-hour session)
Robin Pegg, Assistive Technology Consultant, Eaton ISD
In order for students to become effective communicators with AAC, they need to first see AAC in action! More than
just modeling, aided language input is a strategy that can be implemented across all environments and all
communication partners. Learn the key features of aided language input and see an example of how school teams
can begin implementing this strategy in an intentional way. (Part 2 of 2-hour session)
Tools of Engagement
Dave Tchozewski, Director of Information Technology, Jenison Public Schools
Students that are actively involved in their learning, quite simply, learn more. In our digital age, there are many
ways to increase student engagement. This session will feature many terrific, but lesser known, web tools and
resources that can quickly and easily enhance the classroom experience for both teachers and all students.
Leveraging the iPad’s Power to Support Visual Learning Among Students with Special Needs
David Bennett, Brain Parade
Our picture card software, See.Touch.Learn.®, leverages the iPad technology to provide interactive lessons that
enable visual, tactile and auditory learning. This offers exceptional students a wonderful new learning medium
while giving educators more options for curriculum preparation, visual aid development and data tracking - options
that save time and increase learning opportunities.
This workshop will include an introduction to our new See.Touch.Learn. SITE edition where multiple users within a
school/district can optimize the use of our picture card software. You will discover how easy it is to create visual
lessons with See.Touch.Learn. and identify the many ways it is used to teach basic language skills, vocabulary
and academic concepts
11:00 – 112:00 Noon
Technology Based Strategies to Support Struggling Math Learners
Kate Fanelli, Math Accessibility Specialist, Michigan Integrated Math Initiative
This workshop describes how student difficulties impact mathematics learning. Participants will learn a framework
for designing lessons that proactively address learning barriers for struggling students and apply that framework as
they identify strategies that align with math content and student needs, and gain hands-on experience with
technology based strategies.
Making the Most of an iPad in the Early Childhood Classroom
Peter Schaafsma, AT Consultant, Wexford-Missaukee ISD
We have all seen a young child’s fascination with an iPad, iPhone or other tablet devices. This technology allows
very young children access to play, learning, communication and more. But with all of the multimedia features,
accessibility options and hundreds of thousands of apps – how do you make the most of this awesome tool? Join
us to learn some strategies for effective incorporation into classroom activities for all of your students or the one
who needs it the most! We’ll cover the how’s, why’s and the apps!
Add Some Chrome to Your Classroom: Seriously Shiny Tips and Tricks
Ron Houtman, Educational Technology Consultant, Kent ISD
In this session, Ron will show you how to add some Chrome-plated-go-fasters to your browser. These seriously
shiny tips, tricks, and extensions can be integrated in the K-12 curriculum to support student achievement!
Refresh Your Teacher Toolbox with Wow Websites!
Rosanne Burden, Assistive Technology Specialist, Berrien RESA
There are so many fantastic websites to help you with your teaching and your students' learning but not always
enough time to discover them! Let's look at some websites and Chrome extensions to help refresh your teacher
toolbox.
Tips & Tricks for Organizing Your Gmail
Dave Tchozewski, Director of Information Technology, Jenison Public Schools
Arguably the most popular email service, your gmail account, can become overwhelming if you don’t keep it
organized. Learn tips and tricks for managing your account including labels, filters, signatures and more. We will
explore settings that can make gmail work better for you.
Pine
Rogue
Thornapple
Grand
Coldwater
Cedar
Pine
Rogue
Thornapple
Using Literacy Tools Directly in the Cloud
Ken Grisham and Stephanie Timmer, Premier Assistive Technology
The latest technologies represented by the Cloud are revolutionizing education and learning by opening doors to
an entirely new universe of widespread communication. Students, teachers and parents have unprecedented
capacity and availability to ideas, assignments and resources. Comprehensive literacy technologies now exist that
allow users to seamlessly access content in a manner that will enable everyone to freely create, save and transfer
information from and to Google Drive, One Drive, or Dropbox in the Cloud as easily as working on your own
devices. This session will provide a LIVE demonstration of those tools.
12:00 noon – 1:00 pm Lunch – VISIT EXHIBITOR AREA
1:10 - 2:10 pm
Acceptance or Abandonment: Addressing the Psychological Aspects of Assistive Technology through
Team Collaboration and the Assessment Process
Annemarie Connor, OT, Doctoral Student and Hung Jen Kuo, Professor of Rehabilitation and Disability Studies,
Michigan State University
The most powerful device is impotent when unused. Issues relevant to optimizing person-device fit and minimizing
device abandonment will be explored. Practical ways to capitalize on team members’ areas of expertise and to
formally assess pertinent psychosocial factors will be detailed.
Evernote in Education: The Elephant in the Classroom
Chris Tonge, Assistive Technology Consultant, Livingston Educational Service Agency and Amy Baad, OTR,
Assistive Technology Coordinator, Clinton County RESA
Looking for a tool to improve your student’s executive functioning skills? Come and experience the powerful
features of Evernote. See how the organizational elephant can be tamed in your school!
Writing Supports for the Struggling Writer on the iPad and Chromebook
Pam Shehabi, Laura Griffith and Colleen Kracht, Assistive Technology Coordinators, Calhoun ISD
As an educator we are always looking for tools to help the struggling writers meet their potential and work through
their disability. This presentation will highlight several apps that can help students both on the iPad and
Chromebook.
Technology Triage: Keeping Your Sanity!
Kindy Segovia, Assistive Technology Coordinator, Kent ISD
We love technology and its ability to open doors for students who struggle. However it can also quickly overwhelm
us! We have an explosion of digital resource and equipment options, a push for online and blended learning,
growing Universal Design strategies, and more targeted assistive technology tools than ever before. Balancing
professional learning, collection and dissemination of resources, and effective decision making for implementation
can result in: Where should I start? Which tools do I choose? What is my purpose?
Eye Gaze Access to Speech Generating Devices for Children with Severe Disabilities
Melissa Hoffman, SLP, Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital
This session will cover what perquisites, data and documentation are needed to obtain a Speech Generating
Device (SGD) for a child with a severe disability.
Tobii + Dynavox – This is going To Be Great!
Dan Lipka, Tobii Assistive Technology!
If you have not already heard, Tobii and Dynavox recently merged! This will allow us to focus on new products and
services to serve kids with special needs like never before. This session will focus on some of the new changes
that are happening. Things like lower cost eye gaze for computer access, the light and powerful T110 AAC device
with Compass software and the very new Boardmaker Online. You won’t want to miss this!
2:20 – 3:20 pm
Alignment of AT/AAC with MTSS
Robin Pegg, Assistive Technology Consultant, Eaton ISD
AT/AAC Supports in the MTSS Model: Join us as we discuss the many factors that must be considered when
recommending AT/AAC supports and how these supports fit in your school's MTSS processes.
Aided Language Modeling – The Missing Piece to AAC
Linda Hartman, SLP, Grand Rapids Public Schools
Aided Language Modeling (ALM) is an effective instructional procedure for symbol comprehension and expression.
It is often overlooked in working with students who have little or no functional speech. ALM and its benefits will be
described.
Don’t forget to check to see if you won a door prize!
Grand
Coldwater
Cedar
Pine
Low Tech Sensory Tools … from Pre-School to High School
Deb Schuitema, OTR, Grand Rapids Public Schools
Learn fun and creative ways to meet the sensory needs of students, from those entering preschool to those
graduating from high school. Emphasis will be placed on affordable low tech options which are classroom based
and educationally relevant!
Technology Diet
Gayle Underwood, Technology Integration Consultant, Allegan AESA
Just because technology is readily available, do we have to use it ALL of the time? Learn a little bit about what
research tells us about multitasking, how to use technology powerfully and other tasks that do not use technology
but are just as important to include in the classroom and in your daily life.
Visual Strategies
Rachael Langley, MA, CCC-SLP and Maribeth Schueller, CCC-SLP, Eaton ISD
Many of our complex communicators benefit from visuals in addition to auditory stimuli. Visual supports in the
classroom can be used to add predictability, to communicate expectations to students, and to allow students to
communicate with others. Join us as we talk through multiple types of visual supports, including: visual
planners/schedules, topic boards, social stories, communication books, behavioral supports (first-then, choice
boards), and more!
Assistive Technology Solutions – Print, Math and More!
Jon Rupert & Dave A. Schleppenbach, gh, LLC
Join us for a three part presentation: first we will briefly cover the challenges facing print-impaired students in K-12
math classes, including the rising prevalence of online learning systems, mainstreamed classroom environments,
comprehension, and composition/input. Next, we will present results and implications of data to study the impact of
accessible math software on visually impaired math students. Finally, we will demonstrate the capabilities and
usage of the MathHear software.
Registration and Handouts at http://assistechknow.org/
Join in our Twitter conversation with: #ATK14
DOOR PRIZES: Will be drawn from people who get their Vendor Card stamped by EVERY vendor.
Sign the completed card and take it to the Door Prize Table.
Random drawings throughout the afternoon of each day.
AssisTechKnow Exhibitors 2014
Brain Parade
Curriculum Crafter
gh-accessibility
Humanware
David Bennett
[email protected]
Marcia Logie
[email protected]
Jon Rupert
[email protected]
Michel Pepin
[email protected]
Joys of Jennifer
Carolyn & Jennifer Siewicki
[email protected]
Kent ISD REMC
Dee Miller
[email protected]
Lightspeed Technologies
David Buist
[email protected]
MACUL – SIGSPED
Gayle Underwood
[email protected]
Mary Free Bed
Ben Risinger
[email protected]
Michigan CEC
Laurie Jefsen
[email protected]
MiTS (Michigan’s Integrated
Technology Supports)
Monarch
Technologies/vizZle
Cheryl Barry & Jim Stachowiak
[email protected]
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Trina Torgerson
[email protected]
The Planner Guide
Bob Steinkamp
[email protected]
Premier Assistive
Technology
Ken Grisham & Dr. Stephanie Timmer
[email protected]
[email protected]
Prentke Romich Company
(PRC)
TobiiATI & Dynavox
Tina Pagnucco & Trudi Blair
[email protected]
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Dan Lipka & Joel Allchin
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Sponsors
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RJ Cooper
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Big Grips
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Gripcase
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textHELP
www.texthelp.com
Creative Communicating
Bookshare
Nuance
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www.nuance.com
AssisTechKnow Sponsors 2014