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Tools For Life Georgia > Home. WATI.org : Wisconsin Assistive Technology Initiative. Article results for "assistive technology" Tools for Evaluation: Assistive Technology Tools Kits. By: National Center for Technology Innovation and Center for Implementing Technology in Education (CITEd) (2006) When an individual is identified with a disability and assistive technology is recommended, where do you begin? 1 An AT specialist and teacher might advise the use of specific tools. Families might be excited by the range of AT and ready to move forward. But should they?

While AT tools are enhancing the field of special education, the specific recommendations need to be tailored to the particular individual. AT tool kits help alleviate the inconsistencies in evaluations by presenting specialists and instructors with processes to screen individuals and determine needs. Although AT tool kits aim to standardize the process of AT evaluation, there are many alternatives amongst the components. The SETT Framework (Joy Zabala) Education Tech Points (Gayl Bowser and Penny Reed) Has Technology been Considered? AT Tool Kit links Endnotes 4 “Models, Theories and Frameworks.” Setting the Stage for Success: Building Success Through Effective Selection and Use of Assistive Technology Systems. By: Joy Smiley Zabala (2000) This personal reflection on the SETT Framework shares insights into the development and use of the SETT Framework. It provides considerations for using SETT as a collaborative tool by which groups of people with varying previous experience in assistive technology can effectively build consensus and align expectations in order to: Consider and establish an individual student's need (or lack of need) for assistive technology work toward developing a system of tools with which a student can use to address identified needslink assistive technology assessment and interventionalign purpose, expected results and evaluation measures when choosing and using a system of assistive technology tools Part I: The big questions Which students need assistive technology?

Those for whom assistive technology is necessary in order for them to receive a free, appropriate public education (FAPE) and to make progress in a program reasonably calculated to confer educational benefit.

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