Workshops & Presentations

Gain knowledge on the topics that will benefit your group or organization

Connect and collaborate with other attendees and share your wisdom about:

  • Strategies to work more effectively and efficiently with the technology you already use

  • What is Assistive Technology and how to leverage it for student success

  • Connecting with campus or organizational partners to implement new technology

  • Discover how to ensure your content and media are more accessible and user-friendly

  • And much more!

Connect with Patrice for a free 30-minute consultation and determine the topic that fits your group’s needs

Topics to Consider

Work Smarter, Not Harder:

  • Develop a toolkit with high-tech, low-tech, and no-tech strategies to make the most of the time you spend reading, writing, and studying

  • Be sure to bring your device (BYOD) for some hands-on activities

  • Discover go-anywhere, free apps that connect your team to information, and content

  • Collaborate on a project.

  • We’ll explore cross-platform apps (iPad, Android, Mac, and Windows) and sync across devices (phones, tablets and laptops).

Thrive & Achieve: Coaching Support

  • Explore how coaching can provide support services using an innovative approach to enhance learning and build skills through peer mentoring, strengths counseling, and technology training

  • Create a culture of success and unlock the potential of individuals with disabilities by helping them discover their strengths and abilities to succeed academically, personally, and professionally.

TECHNOLOGY STRATEGIES TO PROMOTE SUCCESS FOR STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES:

  • This session will outline an interactive interview process that assesses the challenges students with disabilities have with completing tasks in an academic setting

  • Develop a toolbox of potential high-tech, low-tech, and no-tech  strategies to implement with students who have specific learning challenges

  • You will work collaboratively with other participants to create a plan to address the challenges for students with specific disabilities

    • Identify student strengths

    • Connect technology strategy to tasks

    • Creating a plan that can be adapted as students access different  academic and employment settings

  • We’ll explore, hands-on, cross-platform, and cross-device technology tools designed to support student learning and develop effective note-taking and study skills, as well as tools built into the technology many of us already own.

Ensure content Usability & Accessibility: a Collaborative Approach

  • The journey toward the goal of 100% accessibility for content and media is a collaborative process involving content creators, users, and those who know how to make content accessible.

  • We’ll discuss what that process can look like and how you can gain the fundamental skills to create accessible content and remediate existing content

  • You’ll explore some key technology tools you can use to create accessible content and media and remediate existing content

Best Practices & Strategies for Implementing Technology Tools:

  • Explore best practices and strategies to collaborate with IT and other partners to successfully deploy and implement campus-wide & organization-wide technology

  • Discuss the importance of supporting all individuals by enhancing learning, increasing access, and promoting an inclusive learning and working environment

  • We’ll apply the ‘Why, How & What’ method to effectively connect individuals to technology and motivate them to explore and discover the tools that will empower them to realize their academic, career, and personal goals.

INTRODUCTION TO ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY:

  • This workshop is for those new to AT and disabilities, as well as professionals looking to expand their ‘tech toolkit’

  • You will gain an understanding of the AT used for a variety of tasks and disabilities and the practical application of AT

  • We’ll discuss the importance of an interactive assessment to connect the right tech and strategies to a specific task or disability

    • Reading speed and comprehension are one of the challenges students identify, across disabilities.

  • Participants will have an opportunity to connect, forming an AT Network, for future collaboration opportunities

  • You’ll receive access to resources for additional training and information on AT (conferences, listservs, vendors, etc.).