Training Opportunities offered from Assistive Technology
General Assistive Technology:
Assistive Technology Audit (As Needed) – An AT Specialist from CES can
come and work with your district to assess the assistive technology that you
already have, as well as help prioritize what is needed to best service your district.
This service is designed to help decide what tools may need to be purchased,
refreshed, updated, or tossed and to look at training needs.
Assistive Technology Consultation (4 hours/month) – This consultative service
is designed to be open-ended to meet the needs throughout the district. The 4
hours can be split into a variety of ways per month. An AT Specialist from CES
can meet with teachers and students as a way to help assess the use of assistive
technology or determine if there is a need. This is a great way to facilitate
communication between CES and the teachers or AT person within your district.
Assistive Technology in the IEP (1/2 day) – An AT Specialist from CES can go
over the IEP and discuss how and when AT should be added to the document.
This is especially important for teachers who are new to Special Education as well
as those that may benefit from a refresher.
Assistive Technology Modeled in your Classroom (As needed) – Do you have
teachers that struggle with how to implement assistive technology in their
classrooms? With a big push for inclusion a CES AT Specialist can provide
advice on AT devices/strategies that help students how have or need assistive
technology to help them be successful in the regular education classroom.
Assistive Technology Planning/Organization (As needed) – You have assistive
technology in your district, now what? An AT Specialist from CES can come and
help your district plan and organize how to make the most of the assistive
technology in your closets. We can help you analyze where the needs are and how
to meet those needs.
Assistive Technology Software Training:
Boardmaker (2 Full Days) – This training session will provide an in-depth look
into Boardmaker as well as provide hands-on training to teachers who are new to
the program. Teachers will be able to walk away with essential tools need to help
facilitate communication in their academic settings.
Boardmaker – What’s New? (1/2 Day) – This training session will provide an
update into the newest version of Boardmaker and all of its new features. This
session is geared towards teachers who are familiar with the program but not the
latest version (v.6).
Bookshare (1/2 Day) – This training session will provide an overview of
Bookshare and who can access it. We will also work with your individual district
on setting up accounts for schools and students.
ClassroomSuite v.4 (1 Day) – This training session will provide an overview of
ClassroomSuite. This dynamic software program can help teachers to meet the
needs of many different students of a variety of abilities.
No Tech/Low Tech AT Solutions (1/2 Day) – A session that can provide some
tips and tricks of no-tech/low-tech assistive technology solutions.
Read & Write Gold v. 9 (1/2 Day) – This session will provide your teachers an
overview of all of the amazing features of Read & Write Gold v. 9. A session that
can show you how to adapt curriculum materials that you are already using to
meet the needs of students in your classroom.
SOLO (1 Day) – This session will provide your teachers an overview of all of the
different programs that make up SOLO. You will learn how to use the different
programs individually as well as together as the SOLO unit.
Wonders of Word, Power of Power Point, and Amazing Adobe! (1 Day) – A
session that can help you to utilize tools that are already available on your
computers. With just the programs you use every day, you can create accessible
documents for your students and so much more!
Summer Institute (3 Day) – CES AT Specialists can provide an overview course
on Assistive Technology and its benefits for students with disabilities.
Create Your Own (Your Choice) – Do have other needs in your district? Tell
us about them and we will create a training session tailored to your needs.