AT Advisory

Agenda Welcome AT Personnel and Assessments IEEs AT Assessment Guidelines and Procedures STAAR, AT and Accommodations Open Forum What’s new?

Welcome AT Conference registration- $75 until April 1, then $105 AT Conference Upcoming training at Region 4 Upcoming training R4 evaluations and certificates Wiki %2C %2C+2014 Today’s Meet:

Qualifications of AT Assessment Personnel What needs to be in Operating Guidelines and Procedures – Credentials and experience – Training- required, provided? – Accountability- audit trail – Documentation- of adherence to guidelines – Content of evaluations- 2 hard copy per table, e-copy on wiki

IEEs Qualification requirements – Needs to be in Operating Guidelines and Procedures – Quality of Assessments- referrals, sample evals (redacted) Customary environments Region 4 DRAFT list of local evaluators- NOT a recommendation

AT Assessment/Evaluation Guidelines and Procedures What are other districts doing? One, or many ways to do it? Resources – AT Toolkit ndex.htmlhttp://edsrc.coe.uky.edu/www/ukatii/resources/i ndex.html – TATN mod.evaluationhttp:// mod.evaluation – WATI s/free/index.phphttp:// s/free/index.php – SETT

STAAR, AT and Accommodations t/accommodations/staar-telpas/ t/accommodations/staar-telpas/

Open Forum Speech paths making AAC recommendations as part of language assessments BYOD and AT…again – Donna- Infuse Learning 1:1 Tablet roll out; AT and IT? – REQUIRED for receive FAPE AT/IT- who buys it?

What’s New Dynavox T10 – Android based – Compass app- subscription or one time purchase with device; can download 30 month trail (oddly trial is Windows or iPad) – Gateway not on new device-can purchase through Silver Kite and use within TouchChat

Happy Valentine’s Day! Complete your evaluations!