Michigan's Assistive Technology Program
Assistive Technology Connections
Vol. 6, No 3, March 2005
In This Issue: AT Assessments.
- Calendar
- AT Assessments
- Resources on AT Assessments
- Recruiting Sites for Building your Financial Future Project
- ADD website
- Cookie Gant Leadership Development Fund
- GREEN Update
- Participate in Surveys
- Subscription Information
Calendar:
- Concepts in Home Modification.
March 4, 2005, 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Fetzer Center at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo.
For more information, go to http://www.seminarsandsuch.com/area2-3-4-05.html - IntelliFeatures Discussion Forum:
Identify creative ways to use limited hardware for access assessment and training using IntelliTools Classroom Suite.
Another discussion forum starting March 25, Using Technology with Children with Cerebral Visual Impairment. Go to http:closingthegap.com/forums and click on Featured Discussions. - Conference of the Michigan Council for Exceptional Children.
March 2 - 4, 2005.
Grand Plaza Hotel, Grand Rapids.
For more information, go to www.MichiganCEC.org. - Assistive Technology Conference.
March 9 - 10, 2005. Bay-Arenac ISD, 4228 Two Mile Rd., Bay City, MI
For more information, go to http://www.solutionwhere.com/baisd/cw/showconference.asp?539 - Michigan Transition Services Association Conference.
March 16 - 18, 2005.
Bavarian Inn Lodge, Frankenmuth.
Contact Andria Carmien: 231.922.6374 or email acarmien@tbaisd.k12.mi.us.
AT Assessments:
Four factors were found to be significantly related to abandonment outcomes (Predictors of Assistive Technology Abandonment, Betsy Phillips, M.S., Hongxin Zhao, Ph.D.):
- Lack of consideration of user opinion.
- Easy device procurement.
- Poor device performance.
- Change in user needs or priorities.
Assessment goals include:
- Get the client the most effective intervention.
- Gather the relevant information and share it with all team members so an informed decision can be made.
Assessment process includes:
- Gather information.
- Analyze information.
- List goals and desired outcomes.
- Define desired intervention features.
- Consider available interventions.
- Trials with potential interventions.
- Select intervention of choice.
- Make recommendations.
AT Assessment Resources:
RESNA Certified Practitioners Directory:
http://www.resna.org/PracInAT/CertifiedPractice/Directory/Practitioners.html
Search under Michigan for ATP - Assistive Technology Practitioner.
Tech assessment basics:
http://www.techaccess-ri.org/assess1.htm
UP AT Assessment Center.
Call Sara Menzel: 906.226.9903, Toll Free: 888.873.8812 or email menzel@upcmichigan.org
AT at Work Resources in Michigan:
http://www.copower.org/At/atwork.htm
Recruiting Sites for Building your Financial Future Project.
We are looking for 35 organizations across the state to participate in a new financial training program for people with disabilities. "Building Your Financial Future" is a project of the Assistive Technology Loan and Telework funds which will bring comprehensive financial education and outreach to people with disabilities in Michigan. If you are interested in taking part in this project please call United Cerebral Palsy of Michigan at 800-828-2714 and request more information and an application!
Announcement about an ADD resources site:.
A national ADHD Directory now lists 800 ADHD service providers in the U.S. with a website that features 100 free carefully chosen articles, 100 links to other ADHD-related websites, an annotated bibliography of the best ADHD books, a free monthly eNews, the National ADHD Directory, and ADHD Skill Building telecourses. For more information, go to www.addresources.org.
Cookie Gant Leadership Development Fund Application Online.
Cookie Gant was a disability activist, a performance artist, a powerful raiser of consciousness, a relentless supporter of diversity in every part of life, and a loyal and perceptive friend. Her passing was an irreplaceable loss in all of our lives. One of Cookie's goals was to help other disability activists experience conferences and other leadership development opportunities that would make them more effective in the movement.
Michigan Disability Rights Coalition has created a scholarship fund in memory of Cookie to achieve her goal. For more information including the application, see http://www.copower.org/mdrc/cookiesfund.htm .
GREEN Update:
The Grass Roots Education and Empowerment Network (GREEN) provides funding, mentoring training and other support available to local groups of people with disabilities and advocates to increase access to Assistive Technology (AT). GREEN is supporting grassroots projects all over Michigan! For project ideas, go to http://www.copower.org/At/green/updates.htm.
Invitation to Participate in Surveys:
Invitation for screen-reader users to participate in survey. Go to http://www.webaim.org/discussion/mail_thread.php?thread=2121.
The National Center on Accessible Transportation invites you to tell your story about travel experiences on airplanes. Go to http://ncat.oregonstate.edu/irb/.
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