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Transition and AT: Ensuring Continuity
Presented by: Gayl Bowser
Thursday, March 18, 2010 Time: 3:00pm - 4:00pm
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Transition and AT: Ensuring Continuity Description: If a student’s transition planning includes assistive technology, continuity of AT use between environments is much more likely. The webinar will highlight ways that educators and families can help students be as independent as possible in their AT use and as prepared as possible to use their AT in functional ways in new, post-secondary environments.
About the Presenter Gayl Bowser was the Coordinator of the Oregon Technology Access Program (OTAP) for almost 20 years. OTAP is a training and technical assistance program funded by the Oregon Department of Education. Ms. Bowser has a Master’s Degree in Special Education. She has been a teacher of a wide variety of students with disabilities, as well as an educational consultant. Ms. Bowser provides consultation, training, and technical assistance in the area of assistive technology throughout the United States and internationally. Ms. Bowser has received numerous awards for her work in the area of assistive technology including Oregon Council for Exceptional Children Teacher of the Year Award, the Service Award of the National Technology and Medial Division of the Council for Exceptional Children and the Distinguished Educator award of the MILKIN Foundation.

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Accessible Instructional Materials: Information & Resources for Educators and Families
Presented by: Joy Zabala
Archived Link: Click Here!
Accessible Instructional Materials: Information & Resources for Educators and Families Description: The Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 requires State and Local Education Agencies to ensure timely provision textbooks and related core instructional materials in specialized formats to students with print disabilities. Although is it logical that all students need instructional materials in formats useful to them to reach expected outcomes, the mandate is raising many questions for educators and families.. What are specialized formats? What are print disabilities? Which students have print disabilities? Where can we get these specialized formats? What else is needed for students to use the materials effectively? And, the biggest question of all… Where can we get help when we need it? Join Dr. Joy Zabala, Director of Technical Assistance for CAST and the new National Center on Accessible Instructional Materials, to explore these questions.
About the Presenter Joy Smiley Zabala, Ed.D., ATP. Dr. Zabala has been involved in assistive technology service provision and professional development across the USA and abroad for more than twenty-five years. In the fall of 2007, she joined the dynamic staff at CAST to serve as the Project Manager of the AIM Consortium. She is currently the Director of Technical Assistance for CAST and for the National Center for Accessible Instructional Materials at CAST. Dr. Zabala is the developer of the SETT Framework, a tool for collaborative decision-making about assistive technology and a founding member of the QIAT Consortium, a grassroots national group which has developed Quality Indicators for Assistive Technology Services. She is the facilitator of the QIAT List (www.qiat.org) which has over 1300 international participants with a common interest in quality assistive technology services. Joy has a long history of productive, creative collaboration with MATN and is looking forward to this webinar.

Archived Webinars

Webinar Title - click the title to go the recorded session	Presented by	Date Presented
Universal Design for Learning: Practice & Policy Download the PowerPoint - Click Here! Read the Bill to be introduced in January - Click Here!	Ricki Sabia	December 3, 2009
Web Tools for the UDL Classroom	Beth Poss	October 8, 2009
AT Cycle Webinar	Jeanne Dwyer	February 20, 2009