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Strategies and Technologies for Teaching Students with Disabilities Dialogue Day
January 24, 2003
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agenda
Strategies and Technologies for Teaching Students with Disabilities Dialogue Day
- 10:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
Welcome
Art DeCabooter (President, Scottsdale Community College)
Anna Solley (Vice Chancellor, Academic Affairs)
Sharon Blanton (Associate Dean of Technology)
- 10:15 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
An Overview of Assistive Technologies
Kirk Behnke
California State University, Northridge
- 11:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Maricopa Update
Sharon Blanton (Scottsdale Community College)
Where are we now with assistive technology? What do we have available?
Maricopa Video
An overview of Maricopa experiences will be shown in a new video produced by Terry McGowan and John Fitzpatrick (Scottsdale Community College)
- 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Lunch
Table Discussions- share experiences, reflect on the morning presentations
Q&A with Kirk Behnke
- 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Strategies for the Classroom
Donna Rebadow, faculty member at Paradise Valley shares her experiences in teaching blind, deaf, and quadriplegic students.
Accommodation Model Activity
Sharon Blanton (Scottsdale Community College)
A group activity designed to help explore the types of accommodations to make in the classroom.
 An Accommodation Model
University of Washington Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology (DO-IT) Program
Adobe Acrobat file: accommodation_model.pdf [48k PDF]
Physical Challenges and Student Abilities Worksheet
University of Washington Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology (DO-IT) Program
Adobe Acrobat file: worksheet.pdf [28k PDF]
- 2:00 p.m. to 2:15 p.m.
break
- 2:15 p.m. to 3:15 p.m.
Hands on demos
Explore hands on many of the adaptive technologies available at the colleges including:
- ZoomText (screen reader and magnifier)
- SmartView (Video magnifier)
- TigerBrailler (personal computer printer for embossing high resolution tactile graphics and Braille)
- JAWS (computer screen reader)
- Dragon Dictate (computer speech recognition)
- Accessible Web Development (with Bobby Sample, Glendale Community College
- Misc Adaptive Tools (provided by Dee Duggan, Disability Resources and Services Office, Scottsdale Community College)
- DVD Viewing station (View Maricopa video and DO-IT videos)
- 3:15 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Closing, Next Step
Q&A about Maricopa resources, complete event evaluations
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