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http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/qiat.html Archives of QIAT@LSV.UKY.EDU. Quality Indicators for Assistive Technology
http://www.cast.org/ CAST's Web site design reflects their commitment to universal design for learning. The site is intended to be a universally designed, interactive learning environment of the kind they believe should be available to students worldwide.
Dr Michael Fenichel's Current Topics in Psychology: Some of the best articles, websites and research tools he has come across are assembled here for your easy reference.
http://www.ideapractices.org/ Four partnership projects have been funded by the U.S. Department of Education to address four audiences regarding the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act: Parents; Service Providers; Administrators; and Policy Makers. The projects, under the direction of the Office of Special Education Programs will work together over the next four years to deliver training, information and a common message about the recent amendments to IDEA.
http://www2.edc.org/NCIP/workshops/sett/SETT_Framework.html The SETT Framework is a guideline for gathering data in order to make effective assistive technology decisions. The SETT Framework considers first, the STUDENT, the ENVIRONMENT(S) and the TASKS required for active participation in the activities of the environment, and finally, the system of TOOLS needed for the student to address the tasks.
http://www.edc.org/spk2wrt/hypermail/ - Speech Recognition Technology Discussion List By Thread
The Closing The Gap Essential Bookmark Collection for AT Coordinators
Introduction
If you work as an assistive technology coordinator for your school or agency, you are well aware of how much time is consumed by tasks that require you to search for information about assistive technology products, services, or policies. Wouldn't it be wonderful if someone created a resource to help manage all the information that an AT Coordinator needs to know?
About the Project
Recognizing the information needs of the field, Closing the Gap agreed to sponsor an innovative project, "The CTG Essential Bookmark Collection for AT Coordinators." The purpose of the project was to solicit input from assistive technology specialists throughout the world regarding the information demands encountered in their work and how specific web resources facilitate their work. CTG readers were invited to tell us the kind of information they would like to find in a bookmark collection and nominate exemplary web sites (see New resource for assistive technology coordinators, Closing the Gap, 18(6), pp. 1, 40).
The project was conducted under the auspices of a national group of Assistive Technology Specialists: Merv Blunt, Missouri Technology Center for Special Education (Kansas City, MO), Marsye Kaplan, Baltimore County Public Schools (Baltimore, MD), and Linda Williams, Area Education Agency 7 (Cedar Falls, IA) and coordinated by Professor Dave Edyburn of University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Project planners envisioned the project would result in a collection of the very best of the best web sites related to technology and disabilities organized to support the work of AT Coordinators. The web links would be organized into a bookmark collection and made available in multiple formats: print, as a web page, and in downloadable files. As a result, AT Coordinators could have a print copy of the collection to use in handouts, have access the bookmarks whenever the need arose (i.e., you're out consulting in a school) and install the bookmark collection directly into the web browser on individual computers (i.e., your laptop, office, and home computer).
Framework Development
To gain insight into what an AT Coordinator needs to know and be able to do, we reviewed position descriptions (National Clearinghouse for Professions in Special Education, 2000), competency statements (CSUN, 2000; Lahm, 1999; RESNA, 2000) and recent personnel preparation books (Chambers, 1997; Cook & Hussey, 1995; Lindsey, 2000). This process enabled us to create a performance support framework of tasks typically completed by Assistive Technology Coordinators. As we reviewed individual web sites, we sorted the addresses into the general categories. The final list of categories were modified so that they could serve as folder titles that would be used to store sets of related web addresses within the bookmark function of the web browser. The list of folders within the CTG Essential Bookmarks for AT Coordinators are as follows:
* Information
* Exchange Info
* Disability Info
* Parent & Family Info
* Solutions
* Success Stories
* Marketplace Solutions
* Product Comparison Solutions
* Assessment & Decision-making Solutions
* Accessibility Solutions
* Troubleshooting Solutions
* Resources
* Policy Resources
* Legal Resources
* Reproducible Resources
* Development
* Materials Development
* Professional Development
* Integration
* Technology Integration
Each folder contains a series of web sites addresses that were identified by nominations from the field as well as those proposed by the project coordinating group. We did not seek to create a specific number of links for each topic. Rather, we sought to create a balance of high-quality links with a minimum of listings. As a result, the final collection contains nearly 100 links organized in 15 categories.
Accessing the Bookmark Collection
The result of this project is a collection of web links specifically organized to support the work of AT Coordinators. The bookmark collection is available in three formats: print (see page 34 of the June/July issue of Closing The Gap), as a Web page on the Closing The Gap Web site, and in downloadable files so that you can install the bookmark collection on your computer.
Future Directions
We believe this project has created a very useful resource for the profession and anticipate that the input and critique of many more individuals will greatly enhance the value of future versions of the CTG Essential Bookmark Collection. Like any collection of web links, the CTG Essential Bookmark Collection for AT Coordinators will require regular updating. We encourage users of the Bookmark Collection to send us their feedback (http://www.closingthegap.com/bookmark.html) regarding the value of the resources, nominations for additional links to be added, and ideas for additional categories that should be developed.
References
California State University Northridge. (2000). Assistive Technology Applications Certificate Program. Available [Online] http://www.csun.edu/cod/atacp2000/atacpfaqs00.html
Chambers, A.C. (1997). Has technology been considered? Reston, VA: Council for Exceptional Children.
Cook, A.M., & Hussey, S.M. (1995). Assistive technologies: Principles and practice. St. Louis, MO: Mosby.
Lahm, E.A., & Nickels, B.L. (1999). What do you know? Assistive technology compentencies for special educators. Teaching Exceptional Children, 32(1), 56-63.
Lindsey, J. (2000).Technology and exceptional individuals, (3rd. ed.). Austin, TX: Pro-Ed.
National Clearinghouse for Professions in Special Education. (2000).
Special Education Technology specialist. Available [Online]
http://www.specialedcareers.orgtec_spec.html.
RESNA. (2000). Assistive technology credentialing program. Available [Online] http://www.resna.org/certify/cib_rev5.html
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The Essential Bookmark Collection for AT Coordinators
Exchange Info
Closing the Gap Question and Answer
http://www.closingthegap.com/cgi-bin/chat/questAns.pl
LD Online Bulletin Boards and Chat
http://www.ldonline.org/bulletin_boards/index.html
Suite 101.com: Assistive Technology
http://suite101.com/welcome.cfm/assistive_technology/
4assistivetechnology of the 4anything Network
http://4assistivetechnology.4anything.com/
Assistive Technology Outcomes
http://www.utoronto.ca/atrc/reference/atoutcomes/index.html
Collegial Conversations dedicated to the Identification and Dissemination of Quality Indicators for Assistive Technology Services
http://sac.uky.edu/~jszaba0/QIAT.html
Disability and Technology: A Resource Collection
http://www.netaccess.on.ca/~galambos/tech.htm
Disability Info The Complete Disability Network
http://members.aol.com/disablenet/Main/DisableNet.html
The Cornucopia of Disability Information (CODI)
International Disabilities New Ticker
http://www.abilityinfo.com/ticker.html
Yahoo! Society and Culture/Disabilities
http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Disabilities/
Films Involving Disabilities
http://www.caravan.demon.co.uk/
National Organization for Rare Diseases (NORD)
MedWeb
http://www.medweb.emory.edu/MedWeb/
The Council for Exceptional Children
The National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities
Special Education Resources on the Internet (SERI)
http://www.hood.edu/seri/serihome.htm
Marc Sheehan's Special Education Page
http://www.halcyon.com/marcs/sped.html
Yahoo! Education/Special Education
http://dir.yahoo.com/education/special_education/
Parent & Family Info
Parent Advocacy Coalition for Educational Rights (PACER)
National Parent Information Network
Family Village
http://www.familyvillage.wisc.edu/
Parents Helping Parents
ParentsPlace.com
Publications for Parents from the U.S. Department of Education
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents
The Sibling Support Project
http://www.chmc.org/departmt/sibsupp/
Success Stories
Student Success Stories
Tech Act Accomplishment Series
http://www.resna.org/taproject/library/accomplish/acomp99.html
Apple Learning Interchange
NEA Works4Me Tips Library
http://www.nea.org/helpfrom/growing/works4me/library.html
Effective Teaching Techniques
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/cise/ose/information/interventions.html
Marketplace Solutions
Closing the Gap Resource Directory
http://www.closingthegap.com/rd/index.html
ABLEDATA
Educational Software Institute Online
Macintosh Products Guide
http://www.macsoftware.apple.com/usindex.html
Product Comparison Solutions
Microphones.com
Speech Systems, Royal National Institute for the Blind
http://www.rnib.org.uk/technology/speech.htm
Continuous speech: A chart on the features
http://www.out-loud.com/features.html
InfoGrip Options Catalog
Assessment & Decision-making Solutions
Joy Zabala's Resources for Assistive Technology in Education
http://sac.uky.edu/~jszaba0/JoyZabala.html
The Wisconsin Assistive Technology Initiative (WATI)
Has technology been considered?
http://www.assistivetechnology.com
Accessibility Solutions
Apple Education Disability Resources
http://www.apple.com/education/k12/disability/
Microsoft Accessibility
http://www.microsoft.com/enable/
IBM Accessibility Center
http://www-3.ibm.com/able/index.html
WebABLE!
SETI: Search Engine Technology Interface
AWARE Center, HTML Writers Guild
Troubleshooting Solutions
ZDNet Help and How-to
WinFiles.com
AppleCare Service and Support
Norton Utilities
McAfee
Service911.com
http://www2.service911.com/service911/
Troubleshooting, Utilities, & Archives
http://ipserv2.aea14.k12.ia.us/Techies/tua.html
Policy Resources
IDEA'97 Home Page
http://www.ed.gov/offices/OSERS/IDEA/
IDEA Practices
Family & Advocates Partnership for Education
The Policymaker Partnership for Implementing IDEA
http://www.ideapolicy.org/home.htm
Assistive and Adaptive Computing Technology in Special Education
http://at-advocacy.phillynews.com/index.html
RESNA Technical Assistance Project Policy Information Pipeline
http://www.resna.org/taproject/policy/policypipe.html
Legal Resources
The EdLaw Center
Americans with Disabilities Act Document Center
http://janweb.icdi.wvu.edu/kinder/
Legal and Advocacy Resources
http://www.eskimo.com/~jlubin/disabled/legal.htm
Disability Related Law, Equal Access to Software and Information
http://www.isc.rit.edu/~easi/law.html
Consortium for Appropriate Dispute Resolution in Special Education
http://www.directionservice.org/cadre
Disability Related Issues: A Web Pathfinder for Student Research
http://www.disrights.org/guide/research.html
Reproducible Resources
Intellitools Activity Exchange
Make N' Take, Colorado Assistive Technology Project
http://www.uchsc.edu/catp/Resources/resrcmain1.htm
AAC Intervention.com Tips, Tricks, & Cheat Sheets
http://aacintervention.com/tipstricks.htm
Computer-Based Study Strategies
http://npip.com/CBSS/sampler.htm
Switch In Time
OVEC Ride Project
http://www.ovec.org/ride/Links/links.htm
Tools You Can Use
http://www.nea.org/helpfrom/connecting/tools/
Virtual Assistive Technology Center
Missouri Technology Center Public Domain and Shareware Software Archives
http://techctr.educ.umkc.edu/softwarearchives
Materials Development
BoardMaker
TrackStar
Quiz Star
http://4teachers.org/tools/quizstar/
Professional Development
Family Guide to Assistive Technology
Assistive Technology Viewer
http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/projects/proposed/asttech/home.htm
Special Needs Opportunity Windows: Professional Development
http://snow.utoronto.ca/prof_dev.html
Fact's and FAQs about the Assistive Technology Applications Certificate Program (ATACP)
http://www.csun.edu/cod/atacp2000/atacpfaqs00.html
RESNA Credentialing Program
http://www.resna.org/certify/cib_rev5.html
Technology Integration
An Educator's Guide to Evaluating The Use of Technology in Schools and Classrooms
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/EdTechGuide/index.html
Prof. Edyburn's Do-it-yourself Guide to Technology Integration
http://www.uwm.edu/~edyburn/diytech.html
The MCREL Standards Database
http://www.mcrel.org/standards-benchmarks/
Sunsations
http://www.itrc.ucf.edu/sunsations/default.html
The Gateway to Educational Materials
EduHound
Teachers' Choice
http://www.techlearning.com/content/reviews/articles/choice.html
CEO Forum
The Milken Family Foundation Education Technology
Technology Leadership Team Institute
http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/thepoint/techtoc.htm
North Central Regional Technology in Education Consortium
Technology: Indicators of Quality Information Technology Systems in K-12 Schools
The Annenberg Institute for School Reform
TechBuilder
Educational Technology Planners
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