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Using iPads to Achieve Educational Success for Students with Disabilities
Description:
This hands-on interactive workshop will explore how to successfully use an iPad to improve educational outcomes for students with disabilities. Participants will explore numerous apps with benefits for a wide range of learners, including apps for reading, writing, math, and science; apps for communication, memory, prompting, and organization; apps for students with hearing or visual disabilities; and apps for conducting assessments. In addition, this workshop will discuss and demonstrate various iPad accessories, switches, keyboards, and mounting solutions to accommodate students who experience physical disabilities.
Participants are encouraged to bring their own iPads. We have a limited number available for loan on a first-come, first-served basis—please call 603.228.2084 if you require the use of a loaner iPad.
Agenda:
9:00 Overview of the IPad and basic features
9:30 Finding and evaluation apps, knowing what to look for
10:00 Exploring AAC apps, keyboard overlays, Bluetooth switches, and decision making matrix
10:30 Break
10:45 Continue communication and organization apps
11:30 Apps for students who experience learning disabilities
12:00-12:45 LUNCH
12:45 Apps for reading and writing
1:30 Apps for math and science
2:15 Apps for blind and low vision, deaf and hard of hearing
2:45 Apps mounting strategies and accessories
3:15-3:30 Questions, answers, resources
Who Should Attend:
Educators, special education teachers, paraprofessionals, parents, transition coordinators, and related service providers.
Sponsored by Assistive Technology in New Hampshire (ATinNH)
Presenter(s): Therese Willkomm, Ph.D., ATP
Therese Willkomm directs the New Hampshire State Assistive Technology Program (ATinNH) at the Instiute on Disability, is a clinical assistant professor in the University of New Hampshire Department of Occupational Therapy, coordinates the graduate certificate in assistive technology disability studies minor. Known internationally as “The MacGyver of Assistive Technology” and for her work in rural rehabilitation for individuals with disabilities, she has been providing and managing AT services for over 28 years and has authored 22 publications.