Session 3: 10:30 - 11:20

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Room 122 Differentiated Instruction with Kurzweil 3000
David Bradburn, Cambium Learning
Kurzweil 3000 is a scaffolded reading, writing, and study skills solution for struggling learners, including ELL students and students with special needs. It enables educators to provide differentiated instruction without having to differentiate the curriculum. In this session we will explore the many features of Kurzweil 3000 on the Windows platform and learn how to apply them in the classroom to effectively support struggling students.
Room 126 Utilizing ActivClassroom Using Infrared Technology
Valerie Nicholson, Promethean
Promethean's ActivClassroom is made up of several award-winning products, all working together to create a truly interactive educational environment where teaching is far from ordinary and learning is exciting and fun! It's an all]in]one solution that integrates formative assessment, resources, and dynamic instructional tools. ActivClassroom allows you to harness the power of the Internet with the ability to develop web]based classes to suit your unique, individual instructional needs.
Room 210 (Continued) The Wild World of Web 2.0 - **2 Block Session**
Bill Schulte, Local Assistive Technology Specialist (LATS), Collier County Public Schools
Sheri Wiseman, Local Assistive Technology Specialist (LATS), Collier County Public Schools
Wikis, blogs, twitters, and Google Doc... the new buzz words for the technology savvy. Are they really appropriate for special education students and can you learn to do this? You better believe it! This hands-on workshop will walk you through the tools that help all students be successful and that help you create an atmosphere that is appealing to students and enables them to achieve more than ever before! We'll walk you through several projects that range from very easy to jumping off the deep end... your classroom may never be the same!
Room 215A
Exhibits Open - Community Agencies and Organizations
Come and explore the range of community agencies and organizations devoted to educating, empowering, and including individuals with disabilities through the use of assistive technology.
Room 216 The Harder You Work – The Luckier You Get! – Shelby’s Story
Featured Speaker: Topm Nurse, Fatehre of a child with a disability, MetLife's Division of Estate Planning for Special Kids
Join Tom Nurse, father of a 17-year-old high school senior, as he reflects back on how all the hard workby Shelby and others has helped her become so "lucky." Shelby has been fully included in regular education classes since kindergarten even though her cerebral palsy has significantly limited her physical abilities. Shelby has benefited from using assistive technology, accommodations, supports, powered mobility, determination, self-advocacy, transition planning and lots of professionals working hard to help her become so successful. Tom Nurse delivers an engaging and inspirational story with the hope that he can help other families benefit from his experiences.
Room 217 (Continued) Positive Behavior Support for Young Children Using Assistive Technology - **2 Block Session**
Dolores Mendoza, Supervisor, Miami-Dade County Public Schools
Positive Behavior Support (PBS) is a broad set of systematic and individualized strategies designed to achieve important learning outcomes and an enhanced quality of life for the child and family while preventing the occurrence of problem behaviors. PBS focuses on identifying environmental factors that are related to challenging behaviors and teaches the child new skills to replace them. A variety of low tech tools that facilitate PBS will be shared.
Room 218 (Continued) Sensory Processing, Sensory Integration and Seating and Access for Teachers in the Classroom - **2 Block Session**
Featured Speaker: Karen Kangas, OTR/L
Featured Speaker: Lisa Rotelli, Educational Consultant, Adaptive Switch Labs, Inc.
Access remains the number one "problem" for so many of the children we serve. However, accessibility to the environment may be extremely limited for many children due to their current "correct" seating. Sensory processing directly affects visual convergence, focus and attention, and postural control. To assist children in better "access" we must also better understand how their bodies work, and what types of seating equipment is needed. This session will highlight strategies that provide children with increased awareness and use of sensory processing within their seating systems so that increased, consistent access can be observed.
Room 312 Planning Instruction and Tracking Student Progress in the Connected Classroom
Trinette Morris, LeapFrog
More and more, educators are trying to differentiate instructional activities for the specific standards that individual students need to master to keep moving ahead. New technologies can enable educators to identify the right activities for each student's needs, based on relevance to specific state standards, and then measure student progress against those standards as the student completes a plan of activities.
Room 316 Riverdeep’s Destination Success – Reading and Math Software Solutions
Arlene Weissburg, Riverdeep
Destination Reading is a Pre]K to 8 curriculum that builds mastery in reading through systematic, explicit instruction using songs, rhymes, and manipulative activities. Destination Math is a motivating and challenging K to 12 math curriculum that helps teachers reach all students in new and refreshing ways. This session will highlight features of the software, school and classroom management of the software,and accessibility options for students with special needs.
Room 317 WordQ and SpeakQ - Software Tools for Literacy
Theresa Petrucelli, United Data Technologies
This session will highlight WordQ and SpeakQ, software tools used along with standard writing software. Users of all ages who have problems writing and editing, particularly those with learning disabilities, can benefit from using WordQ. It features a carefully thought-out design, word prediction and speech feedback. SpeakQ, a speech recognition plug-in for WordQ is for those who cannot use other speech recognition products because they cannot fluently dictate at fast rate, remember verbal commands, and/or get through training. Teachers in special education will appreciate the simplicity of these programs.
Room 319 SWAT: Success with Assistive Technology - **2 Block Session**
Diane Koehnk, Pre-K SPED Teacher, Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS)
Rosa Acha, Lauren Tracey, Elina Medina, Laura Annear, Pre-K SPED Teachers, M-DCPS
To get a teacher’s eye view of the use of assistive technology in the classroom, come join this SWAT Team as they share student case studies from this school year. Through photos, videos and lecture, the group will describe their students’ growth and successes through the AT Implementation Plan process in a wide range of classroom settings (from profoundly mentally handicapped through inclusion).
Room 326 Music Therapy as a Component of AAC Intervention and Utility
Tiara Cottle, Speech/Language Pathologist, Creative Children Therapy
Yani T. Rubio, Music Therapist, Creative Children Therapy
This session will demonstrate how to provide communication partner strategies within an activity for a toddler or preschooler with a developmental disability to achieve joint attention and purposeful communication interactions during dialogical book reading routines and during music paired with speech and language-enhancing routines for language impaired and/or non-verbal children using AAC tools and techniques.