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Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies

Quality Indicators for Consideration of Assistive Technology Needs

Quality Indicators:

  1. Assistive Technology devices and services are considered for all students with disabilities regardless of type or severity of disability.

  2. The IEP team has the knowledge and skills to make informed assistive technology decisions.

  3. The IEP team uses a collaborative decision making process based on data about the student environment and tasks to determine assistive technology needs.

  4. A continuum of assistive technology devices and services is explored.

  5. Decisions regarding the need for assistive technology devices and services are made based on access to the curriculum and the student’s IEP goals and objectives.

  6. Decisions regarding the need for assistive technology devices and services and supporting data are documented.

Web Resources for Assistive Technology:

ALLTECH/MECATS Maine’s Center for Assistive Technology and Software

www.mecats.org

Assistive Technology and Leadership:

www.joyzabala.com

Wisconsin Assistive Technology Initiative

www.wati.org

Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST

www.cast.org

 

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