Program Description
Recorded: August 9, 2023 – This webinar will provide basic assessment tools to help you select assistive technology (AT) for your user (student, client, family member). Assessments for the AT user’s environment, barriers to access and participation, as well as the essentials for augmentative and alternative communication will be covered. A useful checklist with a variety of sample devices in different areas will be shared. Participants will walk away from the webinar with the tools to begin an AT assessment right away!
Presenter
Brianna Grumstrup, Ph.D. – Brianna is currently an assistant professor of special education at University of Maine, Farmington, and the director of the Maine CITE Assistive Technology Center on campus. Brianna has nine years’ experience as a Nevada special educator of students with complex communication, academic, adaptive, social, behavioral, and vocational needs. These experiences were both as a classroom teacher and as a teacher on special assignment serving as a district consultant for teachers of and students with extensive support needs. Both positions involved assessment for and utilization of instructional and assistive technology.
Resources
Please note that a certificate of attendance is not provided for watching the recorded webinar. To receive a certificate of attendance you must have attended the live training, completed the evaluation, and included your email address.
Resources discussed in webinar:
Assistive Technology Assessment Basics PowerPoint – PDF
Assistive Technology Assessment Basics Handout – PDF
Rev: 8/8/2023