1. MCIU Assistive Technology Devices and Services
Tammy Bertel, TaC, Assistive Technology Consultant
Generalized AT Trainings, ATRC Lending Library
Julie Adinolfi, MS/CCC-SLP. ATAC, Assistive Technology Consultant
Individualized AT Services

2. What is Assistive Technology?
Assistive Technology (AT) allows students with disabilities to do the things they need to do in school – communicate, read, write, listen, and many other tasks that they might otherwise be unable to do or to do effectively.

3. What is Assistive Technology?
AT is defined by state/federal laws as, “Any item, piece of equipment, or product system, whether acquired commercially off the shelf, modified, or customized, that is used to increase, maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of a child with a disability.”
This covers a broad range of devices, software, and strategies that may be very simple or quite “high-tech” in nature. The critical feature is that AT extends function and provides a means to access the general education curriculum and meet individualized goals.

4. Training and Consulting (TaC) Assistive Technology Services
Tammy Bertel, MS

5. Assistive Technology Resource Center (ATRC)
Lending Library
Training Center
Videos/Webinars
Large Group
Trainings

6. ATRC Open Houses 7:30 am-5:00 pm
Tuesday, September, 26, 2017
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Tuesday, December 19, 2017
Tuesday, January 12, 2018
Friday, February 16, 2018
Friday, March 16, 2018
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
Tuesday, May 15, 2018

7. Send your staff to Open Houses to problem solve and learn about any of the following…
Writing Tools
Reading Tools
PDF/OCR Apps
Bookshare
AAC Apps
AAC Apps - Preschool Edition
AT and Transition
Switch Activities & Switch Progression
Switch Use and iPads
Accessibility Features
iPad Basics
iPad Restrictions and Guided Access
Schedules and Timers
Eye Gaze Technologies
Continued...

8. We are open before, during, and after work hours (7:30-5) to limit missing students! More topics:
SETT Process and Forms
Meetings and Data Collection
How to Move On/Follow-up Meetings
IEPs and AT
Mounts
iPads and Tablets
Switches, etc.
Symbol Supports and Writing
Abilipad
Clicker Apps
Symbol Support App
Google Apps/ Chromebooks
Reading
Writing

9. Tammy Bertel Qualifications and Experience
MS in Technology Integration from Saint Joseph’s University
14 years of hands-on experience in Special Education
Students with Communication Disorders
Students with Complex Support Needs
Children in Early Intervention

10. Individualized Assistive Technology Services
Julie Adinolfi, MS/CCC-SLP. ATAC

11. What are the Individualized AT services?

12. 1. SETT Meetings

13. SETT Meetings
"SETT" stands for "Student" "Environment" "Tasks" "Tools"
Framework used in Montgomery County (and across the country) for evaluating students' assistive technology needs
Needs may be communicative, academic, mobility-related, or sensory-based (hearing/vision technology)
It is not an IEP Meeting, but rather a meeting to determine what the issues are related to assistive technology, what the team would like to explore, and how to go about it.
SETT is a process wherein, the team meets once, talks about the student, develops the Action Plan, and then begins a trial.

14. SETT Meeting, continued…
At the end of the trial, somewhere around the 2- to 3-month mark, the team meets again to discuss the outcome of the Action Plan and develops a new one to move forward.
It is done in this way to ensure that a student is given a solid trial period of whatever technology is being explored before the district is responsible for providing/purchasing the equipment for that child. This way, the district is not spending money up front on technology that ends up not being an appropriate fit for the child.

15. 2. AT Consultations
Consultation with classrooms, teams, or district SETT facilitators to make recommendations regarding devices to use with students on the caseload – recommendations for appropriate devices to trial with students involved in the district’s SETT process
Consultation to classroom teachers, teams, or speech-language pathologists, to make technical recommendations for devices or strategies to use with their students

16. 3. Individualized AT Training
Team-specific, or student-specific on-site trainings
“Setting up your new classroom” – Low and high-tech AT device recommendations for classrooms
“What’s in your AT Closet” Training – Understanding and utilizing AT already owned in your district
Other trainings as requested (please specify)

17. Julie Adinolfi, MS/CCC-SLP, ATAC Qualifications and Experience
Assistive Technology Applications Certificate from California State University at Northridge
MS in Speech-Language Pathology from Bloomsburg University
27 years of hands-on experience in AT
All types of AT
All age levels of students
All ability-levels of students

18. How do I request Individualized AT Services?
Complete and submit Contract Services Form (attached and on the AT page of the MCIU website) to Julie Adinolfi
Julie contacts the team leader designated on the form to gather background information
Once information is received, an observation or meeting is scheduled
Following the meeting, paperwork (SETT) is ed to all present at the meeting.

19. SETT Form

20. AT Consult Form

21. AT Training Form