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Useful Links to Other Sites
The internet has become an extremely important resource for locating current assistive technology resources. The staff of the Adaptive Technology Center has located key websites that focus on specific issues and products concerning the ever changing world of assistive technology. Please visit the following websites to deepen your understanding of the role of assistive technology in ensuring academic success for ALL students.
Assistive Technology Industry Association (ATIA)
A not-for-profit membership organization of companies that manufacture or sell technology-based assistive devices for people with disabilities or provide services associated with or required by people with disabilities. Among its primary goals is the establishment and continuation of an assistive device technology conference on an annual basis. http://www.atia.org
Assistive Technology Training Online Project (ATTO)
The ATTO Project at University at Buffalo has devised online tutorials that include step-by-step instructions to print out and/or display as a slide show for group instruction and practice exercises that let you practice and master new skills using actual classroom examples. Their website also contains an AT decision-making module, AT basics module, and extensive links to valuable AT resources. http://atto.buffalo.edu/registered/Tutorials.php
Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD)
An international, multicultural organization of professionals committed to full participation in higher education for persons with disabilities. http://www.ahead.org
Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST)
A non-profit organization whose mission is to expand opportunities for people with disabilities through innovative multimedia computer technology. http://www.cast.org
Center for Electronic Studying
A Center for investigating ways computer technology can be used to enhance students' efforts to study and learn content-area material. Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, the Center has launched three projects blending portable computer technology with instruction on computer-based study strategies. http://cbss.uoregon.edu/projects/presentprojects.htm
Closing the Gap
An internationally recognized source for information on the use of computer related technology by and for people with disabilities. Publishes newsletter and resource directory and holds annual international conference each fall in Minneapolis, MN. http://closingthegap.com
Equal Access to Software and Information
EASI's mission is to serve as a resource to the education community by providing information and guidance in the area of access-to-information technologies by individuals with disabilities. http://www.rit.edu:80/~easi
The Faculty Room
DO-IT introduces The Faculty Room , a comprehensive on-line resource for faculty and administrators in postsecondary institutions nationwide. Learn more about: academic accommodations for students with disabilities, universal design of instruction, computer technology and web accessibility, rights and responsibilities of students with disabilities, and resources. http://www.washington.edu/doit/Faculty
HEATH Resource Center (Higher Education and Adult Training for People with Disabilities)
National clearinghouse that provides free information on postsecondary education and related issues. http://www.heath.gwu.edu
Learning Disabilities Resources
Technology expert and adult dyslexic, Richard Wanderman's up-to-the-minute review of software and hardware for people with learning disabilities. http://www.ldresources.com
LD OnLine's Assistive Technology Resources Guide
A comprehensive listing of assistive technology devices by type and links to sources and information about the devices. http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/technology/techguide.html
National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
Voice mail system. Operators provide information on audiocassette, large print, and Braille books and magazines for recreational reading. Callers with learning disabilities must meet certain guidelines to use these services. http://www.loc.gov/nls
Onion Mountain Technology
Onion Mountain Technology believes that every student has the right
to be as independent and successful as possible, and that there are
tools, techniques, and strategies that can help kids learn and grow to
the best of their abilities. They provide consultations, evaluations,
training, workshops and presentations as well as a full line of low
and mid tech tools in our LoTTIE Kit (Low Tech Tools for Inclusive
Education) product line. They also have compiled excellent
assistive technology resource sheets at the link below.
http://www.onionmountaintech.com/assistive.php
Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic, Inc
Operators provide information on over 80,000 recorded textbooks and other classroom materials, from 4th grade through postgraduate levels, available for loan. Callers with learning disabilities are eligible to participate but must complete the certification requirements. http://www.rfbd.org
Schwab Learning
Schwab Learning, a program area of the Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation, is dedicated to helping kids with learning differences be successful in learning and life. The Schwab Learning web site provides reliable, research-based information and guidance. Developed especially for parents of children who are newly identified as having a learning difference, it is designed to be a parent's "guide" through the new and unfamiliar landscape of LD. http://www.schwablearning.org
Southern Connecticut State University Center for Adaptive Technology
Southern Connecticut State University's Center for Adaptive Technology provides technology access solutions for people with visual, physical, and learning disabilities. Their mission is to help students become independent computer users and to ensure access to the same technology other students use to achieve their educational goals. Their website contains valuable links to assistive technology products, conferences and resources, as well as assistive technology terms and definitions. http://www.southernct.edu/departments/cat/
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) in the U.S. Department of Education has prepared a pamphlet to inform students with disabilities about their rights and responsibilities and the responsibilities that postsecondary schools have towards them. This pamphlet explains the obligations of a postsecondary school to provide academic adjustments, including auxiliary aids and services, to ensure that the school does not discriminate on the basis of disability. http://www.ed.gov/ocr/transition.html
TCNJ Library's Accessibility & Assistive Technology Tools
The College of New Jersey has developed online for assistive technology available in their library including the Kurzweil 1000, Kurzweil 3000; IBM Home Page Reader, ZoomText Extra, Prisma Video Magnifier and the Hearing Helper Personal FM System. http://www.tcnj.edu/~library/accessibility/index.html
Varrassi Educational Associates
Vincent Varrassi has over twenty-seven years of experience with students who struggle with learning disabilities, ADHD, Asperger Syndrome and other achievement challenges. He specializes in transitioning students from secondary to post secondary school and their continuation on to a successful career.
http://www.vincentvarrassi.com/
Web Accessibility at TCNJ
The College of New Jersey is committed to web accessibility. The Information Technology Department has developed an extensive array of accessibility links, guidelines and evaluation tools. Their goal is to raise awareness of web limitations and to empower web developers with the tools to remove unnecessary barriers, improving equality of access to web based information. http://www.tcnj.edu/~it/accessibility/index.html
Web Usability at TCNJ
The College of New Jersey 's Information Technology Department has developed an informative website highlighting: building an awareness of usability principles, assisting web developers in applying usability principles, expanding expertise and knowledge, and publishing results from usability studies. http://www.tcnj.edu/~it/accessibility/index.html
Wrightslaw
Parents, advocates, educators and attorneys come to Wrightslaw for accurate, up-to-date information about advocacy for children with disabilities. You will find hundreds of articles, cases, newsletters, and resources about Special Education law and advocacy. http://www.wrightslaw.com
Abstracts obtained from LD Online's Finding Help section.
http://www.ldonline.org/finding_help/help.html
New Jersey Organizations
New Jersey Commission on Higher Education: Special Needs Regional Centers
A system of seven regional centers that provide support services for college students with special needs, such as learning disabilities, visual impairments and deafness and hearing impairments. Additionally, an Adaptive Technology Center has been established at The College of New Jersey that provides access to appropriate adaptive aids. http://www.nj.gov/highereducation/sn.htm
TECH-NJ
Yearly newsletter published by the Adaptive Technology Center for New Jersey Colleges at The College of New Jersey that highlights state-of-the-art software, hardware, and assistive devices. http://www.tcnj.edu/~technj
NETAC
The Northeast Technical Assistance Center (NETAC) provides outreach and technical assistance to postsecondary programs in the Northeast serving individuals who are deaf and hard of hearing http://netac.rit.edu/about.html
PEPnet
PEPNet, the Postsecondary Education Programs Network, is the national collaboration of the four Regional Postsecondary Education Centers for Individuals who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing. http://www.pepnet.org/
Class Act
Project Access includes customized interactive workshops, focused classroom observations and feedback, student-run activities, and research. Currently, those associated with Project Access are working to become self-sustaining within the College of Science and to transfer this model to other academic units of RIT. http://www.rit.edu/%7Eclassact/index.html
Training
Wynn PowerPoint Overview and Hands-on WYNN