1. April 1, 2014 Assistive Technology & Transition to College Lauren Tucker & Bo Zamfir

2. Transitions ❖ What happens after High School? ❖ College? Workplace? Home? Community?

3. College ❖ Lots of reading, writing, exams, presentations, lectures and note taking ❖ Time management totally independent and ESSENTIAL to success ❖ Necessary to stay super organized

4. But… ❖ National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities (NJCLD, 1990) defines learning disability as: ❖ “a heterogenous group of disorders manifested by significant difficulties in listening, speaking, reading writing, reasoning, or mathematic abilities. Problems in self-regulatory behaviors, social perception, and social interaction my exist without learning disabilities but do not by themselves constitute a learning disability.”

5. AT Can Fill The GAP ❖ AT can provide support for students to overcome academic and/or physical obstacles (visual, hearing, or physical impairments)

6. No IEPs in College… ❖ IDEA no longer in effect ❖ No right to college ❖ Civil rights laws are relevant in higher education...

7. Civil Rights Laws ❖ Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act ❖ Only pertains to colleges & universities with federal funding ❖ Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ❖ ADA applies to all entities - public and private

8. Reasonable Accommodations ❖ Under 504 & ADA, colleges must provide (at no cost) reasonable accommodations to make their programming accessible to students with disabilities

9. Where The Tech Comes In ❖ Technology comes in: ADA uses the terms “auxiliary aids and services” to refer to devices & services to make school accessible ❖ 504: “are not required to produce identical result or level of achievement” for people with disabilities, but they must provide “equal opportunity to obtain the same result, to gain the same benefit, or to reach the same level of achievement” (US Department of Education, 1998)

10. Whose Responsibility? ❖ Colleges: ❖ Make sure qualified students have access to programs ❖ Provide reasonable accommodations ❖ Demonstrate good faith effort to provide student with meaningful access

11. Whose Responsibility? ❖ Students: ❖ Self identify as having a disability ❖ Request specific accommodations ❖ Follow agreed upon procedures for using accommodations

12. High School Transition ❖ Two kinds of skills essential for students planning on attending college: ❖ Assistive technology skills for independence ❖ Self advocacy skills

13. QIAT - PS ❖ Self-Advocacy & Self-Determination ❖ Student Guidelines & College Guidelines (for college personnel) ❖ 7 Student Guidelines arranged by: quality indicator, questions students should ask themselves to evaluate the indicator, and other related tasks

14. Tasks and Accommodations ❖ Note taking ❖ Lectures ❖ Test taking ❖ Reading ❖ Papers & Assignments ❖ Accessing the Internet

15. Note Taking and Lectures ❖ Livescribe Pen ❖ AudioNote (Mac, PC, iOS, Android)

16. Text-to-Speech Products

17. Word Prediction

18. Speech to Text

19. Prewriting and Planning

20. Organization

21. Questions?

22. Resources ❖ National Joint Committee on Learning Disabilities Definition of Learning Disabilities: http://www.ldonline.org/pdfs/njcld/NJCLDDefinitionofLD.pdf http://www.ldonline.org/pdfs/njcld/NJCLDDefinitionofLD.pdf ❖ QIAT - PS: www.tcnj.edu/~technj/2010/QIAT-PS.htmwww.tcnj.edu/~technj/2010/QIAT-PS.htm ❖ Livescribe: http://www.livescribe.comhttp://www.livescribe.com ❖ AudioNote: http://luminantsoftware.com/iphone/audionote.htmlhttp://luminantsoftware.com/iphone/audionote.html ❖ Kurzweil: http://www.kurzweiledu.comhttp://www.kurzweiledu.com ❖ Voice Dream: http://www.voicedream.com/http://www.voicedream.com/ ❖ ClaroPDF: http://www.claro-apps.com/ClaroPDFhttp://www.claro-apps.com/ClaroPDF ❖ Read & Write for Google: http://www.texthelp.com/north-america/readwriteforgooglehttp://www.texthelp.com/north-america/readwriteforgoogle

23. Resources ❖ Co:Writer: http://donjohnston.com/cowriter/#.UxxplSgzp8shttp://donjohnston.com/cowriter/#.UxxplSgzp8s ❖ WordQ & SpeakQ: http://www.goqsoftware.com/http://www.goqsoftware.com/ ❖ Read & Write: http://www.texthelp.com/north-america/ireadwritehttp://www.texthelp.com/north-america/ireadwrite ❖ Apple Speech to Text: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT5449https://support.apple.com/kb/HT5449 ❖ Dragon Naturally Speaking: http://www.nuance.com/dragon/index.htmhttp://www.nuance.com/dragon/index.htm ❖ iOS Siri: http://www.siriuserguide.com/siri-dictation-guide/http://www.siriuserguide.com/siri-dictation-guide/ ❖ Window Speech to Text: http://windows.microsoft.com/en- us/windows/dictate-text-speech-recognition#1TC=windows-7http://windows.microsoft.com/en- us/windows/dictate-text-speech-recognition#1TC=windows-7

24. Resources ❖ MindNode: https://mindnode.com/https://mindnode.com/ ❖ Webspiration: http://www.webspirationpro.comhttp://www.webspirationpro.com ❖ Bubbl.us: https://bubbl.us/https://bubbl.us/ ❖ Evernote: https://evernote.com/https://evernote.com/ ❖ Microsoft OneNote: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote/http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote/ ❖ Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/https://www.dropbox.com/ ❖ Google Drive: http://www.drive.google.comhttp://www.drive.google.com ❖ Wunderlist: https://www.wunderlist.com/en/https://www.wunderlist.com/en/