Courses and Training

Courses

• DHD 555 Consideration, Assessment and Documentation of Assistive Technology in PK-12 Educational Settings
  • Syllabus
  • Recorded lecture example
  • Video model
• DHD 548 Assistive Technology Tools in Education (co-taught with Sayard Bass and Sheri Lenzo)
  • Syllabus
  • Sample lecture handout

Guest lectures

• DHD 440 Introduction to Assistive Technology
  • Lecture: Assistive Technology in Education
• DHD 544 Assistive Technology in Early Childhood Settings
  • Lecture: Assistive Technology for Early Literacy Activities

Practice Guides

Integrating Assistive Technology into the Problem-Solving Process was the first practice guide I created. It’s an ongoing project (see conference presentations below) and hopefully the basis of my doctoral research.

My colleague Kelly Key and I created a practice guide on using speech recognition with K12 students. Together and separately, we’ve presented on this guide at multiple conferences and for webinars. The guide is freely available at http://bit.ly/srguide.

Conference Presentations (selected)

I’ve been presenting national assistive technology conferences since 2009. Here’s a sample of presentations across the years:

• Beyond the SETT Framework: Integrating AT into the Common Language of the Problem-Solving Process
  (Closing the Gap, 2020)
• Building a Common Language for School-Based AT Services
  (RESNA, 2020)
• Task-Demand Analysis: The Key to AT Consideration
  (Closing the Gap, 2019 and ATIA, 2019)
• Speech Recognition as AT for Writing
  (Maryland Assistive Technology Network Conference, 2016)
• Policy and Practice of AT in the K12 Settting
  (RESNA, 2015)
• ATP Certification in Education
  (Closing the Gap, 2014)
• Integrating AT into the Problem-Solving Process
  (ATIA, 2011)
• Seating and Mobility for Educators
  (ATIA 2009 with Carmen DiGiovane, PhD)

School district trainings (selected)

I worked in Community Unit School District 200 in Wheaton and Warrenville, IL for almost 25 years. First, I taught elementary students with disabilities as an inclusion aide, resource teacher and inclusion facilitator. Assistive technology became part of my skill set when I joined the district-wide AT team for one day a week while still teaching. Then, for the last 13 years, I served as the full-time assistive technology coordinator for the district and worked with students from early childhood through high school and transition.

I provided many professional development sessions over the years to groups of various sizes. Here is a sample in no particular order:

• Accessible Instructional Materials
• Advanced Boardmaker
• Creating Accessible Books for Students with Emergent Literacy Skills
• It’s a Swiss Army Knife: Google as AT for Students
• Lexia Reading software
• Kurzweil 3000
• Universal Design for Learning: Addressing Learner Variability in Lesson Design
• DeCoste Writing Protocol
• Beyond Access Model: Membership, Participation and Learning
• AT Process, Documentation and PARCC Accommodations
• Accessible Literacy Learning (ALL) Curriculum
• iPads in Special Education
• Make Your Own “Talking Books”
• Clicker 7 software
• AT Tools for Math
• AT Tools for Reading
• AT Tools for Writing
• Assistive Technology Consideration and Assessment