2009 NC AT Expo Sessions
Dec 04, 2009 2:00pm - 3:00pm Location: Boxwood
Accessible Transportation: A Critical Element Of Community Life
Rene Cummins, Executive Director
Alliance of Disability Advocates, Center for Independent Living
Gerri Smith, Advocate and trainer
The Arc of NC, NC Office on Disability and Health, Alliance of Disability Advocates CIL
This session will provide an overview of ADA requirements on transit accessibility, safety issues, and travel training opportunities.
Track: Promoting Healthy Living/Recreation
Dec 03, 2009 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Boxwood
Adaptive Sports for People with Physical Disabilities
Ashley Thomas, Executive Director, Bridge II Sports
Bridge II Sports is a local non-profit organization that is creating opportunities for children and adults who are physically challenged to play team and individual sports. Try out an obstacle course and learn about differences between Paralympics and Special Olympics and our partnership with the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Foundation of NC.
Track: Promoting Healthy Living/Recreation
Dec 03, 2009 3:30pm - 4:30pm Location: Salon D
An Old Dog Looks at AT and Employment Outcomes
Tony Langton, Consultant
Pathfinder Associates
Reaching successful employment outcomes using technology resources and services works. Why don’t we use this more? Come learn about successful strategies for the workplace.
Track: Work
Dec 03, 2009 2:00pm - 3:00pm Location: Salon D
Assistive Technology in the Community Rehab Program
Meg Moss, Executive Director, LCI, Incorporated
The presenter will look at ways that AT can be (and is being) used in the CRP for vocational training and evaluation, education, and independent living skills.
Track: Work
Dec 03, 2009 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Salon D
Assistive Technology in the Community Rehabilitation Program
Meg Moss, Executive Director, LCI, Incorporated
Look at ways that AT can be (and is being) used in the CRP for vocational training and evaluation, education, and independent living skills.
Track: Work
Dec 04, 2009 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Salon D
Assistive Technology in the Workplace
Roxanne Johnson, Business Relations Representative, and
Brian Eshleman, VR Counselor
NC Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services
Brian Rowe, Director, and Sara Caul, VR Client,
Winston-Salem Urban League
Learn firsthand about a successful job placement process including: the process of Ms. Caul becoming a VR client; development of an “Individualized Plan for Employment” with her counselor; the purchase of software; and training on “Dragon Naturally” software through referral to the assistive technology center; working with the Business Relations Representative for job placement; and then, placement in employment at the Winston Salem Urban League.
Track: Work
Dec 04, 2009 10:00am - 11:00am Location: Salon C
Assistive Technology Introduced Early to Young Children
M. Jennifer Chapman, Educational Diagnostician
Children's Developmental Services Agency of the Blue Ridge (CDSA of the Blue Ridge)
Come and see case studies of young children in Early Intervention accessing Assistive Technology for a variety of daily activities.
Track: Education
Dec 04, 2009 2:00pm - 3:00pm Location: Salon A & B
Books are about Real Places and Things
Jane Barabash, Orientation and Mobility Specialist
Dee Martin, Teacher of the Visually Impaired
Shirley Hand, Teacher of the Visually Impaired
Governor Morehead Preschool
Learn about adapting books for children who are blind / visually impaired with auditory and tactile components that build on real life experiences.
Track: Vision
Dec 03, 2009 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Dogwood
Creating Your Home Workspace
Sharon Joines, Assistant Professor of Industrial Design, Center for Universal Design, North Carolina State University
After deconstructing the home workstation, individual abilities and workstation characteristics will be explored. Resources for workstation design will be presented.
Track: Home Modifications
Dec 04, 2009 10:00am - 11:00am Location: Salon D
Disability Program Navigators: Raising the Disability IQ of the Workforce Development System
Georgia Steele, Disability Program Navigator, Capital Area WDB
Steve Noblitt, Disability Program Navigator, Mountain Area WDB
This session will focus on how the Disability Program Navigators have raised the disability IQ of Workforce Professionals in the JobLink Career Centers and assisted customers with disabilities navigate the program of services offered by the Centers. The session will showcase DPN activities and testimonies from persons with disabilities.
Track: Work
Dec 04, 2009 8:30am - 9:30am Location: Salon D
Equal Opportunity: Know Your Rights
Mose Dorsey, Administrative Officer III
NC Department of Commerce, Division of Workforce Development
This session will make employers and persons with a disability aware of their Equal Opportunity rights.
Track: Work
Dec 04, 2009 8:30am - 9:30am Location: Dogwood
Expanding the Welcome Mat: the ABC’s of Visitable Home Construction
Eleanor Smith, Director
Concrete Change
The presenter will compare/contrast Visitability to Universal Design and explain construction basics people need to know in order to spread the concept.
Track: Home Modifications
Dec 04, 2009 2:00pm - 3:00pm Location: Dogwood
Funding and Financing for Home Modifications
Richard Duncan, Executive Director
RL Mace Universal Design Institute
This session will review public and private sources of assistance for which households might be eligible to make home access modifications.
Track: Home Modifications
Dec 03, 2009 3:30pm - 4:30pm Location: Dogwood
Going Home: Is Your House Ready?
Mike Carter MS, OTR/L, WakeMed
The presenter will offer insights from patients and therapists about getting back into the home and discuss solutions being pursued by WakeMed Health and Hospitals.
Track: Home Modifications
Dec 03, 2009 2:00pm - 3:00pm Location: Dogwood
Homes That Take Care of You
Lewis Sadler, President/Owner, Sadler Construction, Incorporated
Learn how by designing and constructing homes with the future in mind, your home can more easily accommodate access needs to make caregiving easier.
Track: Home Modifications
Dec 03, 2009 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Salon C
Implementing the Big Box of Words: A Parent’s Perspective
Robert Rummel-Hudson,
Author, Schuyler's Monster: A Father's Journey with His Wordless Daughter (St. Martin's Press 2008)
Listen to a father’s observations on the implementation of AAC in the daily life and school curriculum of a nonverbal child.
Track: Education
Dec 04, 2009 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Salon E
Introduction to Eye Control
Jeri Hoffman, US Sales Manager
Tobii ATI
This session will explain how eye control works, who can use it, and how to set up eye control for an assessment.
Track: AT Expo Exhibitors
Dec 03, 2009 3:30pm - 4:30pm Location: Salon E
Look What’s New from Saltillo
Dawn Haynes, SLP, Assistive Technology Works, Incorporated
Attend this informational session on new augmentative and alternative communication devices from Saltillo. Participants will learn about the features and benefits of these new products and be able to try them out.
Track: AT Expo Exhibitors
Dec 04, 2009 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Dogwood
Making Your Home More Accessible With Low Tech Phones, Alerting Devices And More
Kevin Caves, Engineer
Meredith Nye, Speech Pathologist and AT Specialist
Jennifer Haynes, Speech Pathologist and AT Specialist
Duke University
This session will focus on simple, inexpensive modification and technologies to make using phones, remote controls, alerting systems and other technologies in the home easier to use.
Track: Home Modifications
Dec 04, 2009 10:00am - 11:00am Location: Boxwood
Mission Possible: Eating Healthy and Basic Cooking Skills
Brian Bailey, Department Head, Culinary Technology
Alamance Community College
Chef Brian will demonstrate some of the basic secrets to healthy eating and simple cooking, so meals become one of the ways you live healthy.
Track: Promoting Healthy Living/Recreation
Dec 04, 2009 8:30am - 9:30am Location: Salon E
Portable Reading Tools for Accessing Information
Jim Sullivan, East Central Blindness Sales Manager
HumanWare
Accessing information quickly and efficiently is critical to succeeding in and out of the classroom. HumanWare offers a number of portable reading solutions for persons who are visually impaired and who have learning disabilities. In this presentation participants will learn more about current solutions such as the Victor Reader Stream and Classmate. They will also learn more about initiatives HumanWare is taking to advance this technology. Finally participants will be able identify the benefits of these solutions for reading, doing research and studying.
Track: AT Expo Exhibitors
Dec 04, 2009 10:00am - 11:00am Location: Salon E
Read&Write GOLD: Solution for ALL Students
Karlene Feeney, Educational Account Manager
Texthelp Systems, Inc.
Come see the latest versions of Read&Write GOLD for PC and MAC and learn how they can help schools meet UDL and RTI initiatives to ensure that all students succeed. These new releases contain many exciting new features and enhancements including custom male and female text-to-speech voices, Online Graphic Organizer, Online Translator, enhanced phonetic spell checker and word prediction, and expanded deployment and licensing options to support students at school and at home.
Track: AT Expo Exhibitors
Dec 03, 2009 3:30pm - 4:30pm Location: Salon C
Refreshable Braille and More: New Devices from the American Printing House for the Blind
Gary Ray, President, North Carolina National Federation of the Blind
APH has recently introduced several high-tech devices designed for those who are blind or have low vision, and they are available on Quota! Come see what the excitement is about.
Track: Education
Dec 04, 2009 2:00pm - 3:00pm Location: Salon E
Small, But Highly-Powerful Augmentative Communication Devices
Kenneth P. Whitley, President
Key Technologies, Inc.
This presentation examines new, lightweight dynamic display and text-based communication devices including Alt-Chat, Polyana-JT, Say-It! SAM Communicator, Freedom Lite, & more!
Track: AT Expo Exhibitors
Dec 04, 2009 8:30am - 9:30am Location: Boxwood
Steps to Good Oral Health
Chris Mackey, Healthy Communities Coordinator, NC Office on Disability and Health, UNC- Chapel Hill
This session will showcase tools and strategies that promote quality oral health for all.
Track: Promoting Healthy Living/Recreation
Dec 04, 2009 2:00pm - 3:00pm Location: Salon C
Succeeding With Reading And Writing Technology For College Students With AD/HD Or Learning Disabilities
Dorian Miller, Software Developer, IBM
Dr. Theresa Maitland, Coordinator, Academic Success Program
UNC Chapel Hill
Presenters will share 4-years worth of UNC students’ experiences, strategies, and tips to applying technology to accommodate their reading and writing weaknesses.
Track: Education
Dec 03, 2009 3:30pm - 4:30pm Location: Salon A and B
Technology Options for the Visually Impaired Individual's Professional Needs and Personal Self-Development
Johnna Simmons, Technology Services Manager, RLCB, Incorporated
This session will address the technology needs of the visually impaired in the workplace and at home. The presenter will site many different options available to the user.
Track: Vision
Dec 04, 2009 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Salon A & B
The Good, the Bad, And the Ugly...A daily User's perspective to finding the technology that fits!: Special emphasis on the Victor Reader Stream, color indicators, and lap top computers with JAWS
Lisa Shearin, Contract Teacher,
NC Division of Services for the Blind
The presenter chronicles her experiences learning about the good, the bad, and the ugly of assistive technology, which led to her discovery that there is actually something for everyone if one persists in searching for the perfect fit. The presenter will discuss the three items that have given her the most independence after she became blind five years ago: the Victor Reader Stream, Color Indicators, and laptop computers with speech.
Track: Vision
Dec 03, 2009 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Salon E
The Mystery in Assistive Listening Devices
Patricia Varner-Bland, PEPNet Outreach Specialist, Post-Secondary Education Programs Network
This presentation will provide an overview of assistive listening devices and their use in postsecondary settings. Many service providers are familiar with and accustomed to providing sign language interpreters and notetakers for Deaf consumers. However, much confusion exists about appropriate services to provide to hard of hearing consumers. In fact, both service provider and consumer may lack familiarity with ALDs, and thus miss out on the great benefit they provide in lecture and other group listening situations.
Track: AT Expo Exhibitors
Dec 04, 2009 2:00pm - 3:00pm Location: Salon D
The Tiger Embosser: Making Workplace Materials Accessible
Jack Mitchell, Vision Technology Specialist
Indigo Logix
Gain an overview of the View Plus Tiger Embosser and learn how it can be used to produce accessible materials for employees with visual impairments.
Track: Work
Dec 04, 2009 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Boxwood
Therapeutic Yoga
Naga Rani Dhoopati BS, ND, Certified Yoga Teacher,
Yoga for Living
Experience a demonstration of Therapeutic Yoga and learn how gentle movement of the body and awareness of breath can give better support to individuals.
Track: Promoting Healthy Living/Recreation
Dec 03, 2009 2:00pm - 3:00pm Location: Salon A and B
Today’s Cell Phones: Are We Getting What We Want or Just Making Do?
Penny Zibula, Department of Veterans Affairs Rehabilitation Research and Development Center -Atlanta , GA
The presenter will review results from a Veterans Affairs study on the accessibility of daily cell phone functions most frequently used by people who are blind.
Track: Vision
Dec 03, 2009 2:00pm - 3:00pm Location: Boxwood
Together Wii Can Do It
Kim Stewart, Therapuetic Recreation Specialist- Vocational Rehabilitation,
Lorene Roberson, Assistive Technology Specialist- North Carolina Assistive Technology Program,
Jamie Wilson, Senior Center Coordinator- Nash County Government,
Networking with community partners is quintessential. Several agencies in the Nash/Rocky Mount area pooled their resources and successfully maximized service.
Track: Promoting Healthy Living/Recreation
Dec 04, 2009 10:00am - 11:00am Location: Dogwood
Universal Design: Thinking Beyond the Code
Sean Vance, AIA
Extension Assistant Professor & Director NCSU Center for Universal Design
Learn about the purpose of codes in the design professions and how this can be a basis for achieving strong user-oriented design solutions.
Track: Home Modifications
Dec 03, 2009 2:00pm - 3:00pm Location: Salon C
Universal Instructional Design
Dr. Muktha Jost, Associate Professor, Instructional Technology, NC A & T State University
Participants will learn to apply Universal Design principles and Assistive Technology support to make curriculum accessible to all learners. Dr. Jost will demonstrate related AT devices.
Track: Education
Dec 04, 2009 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Salon C
Universal Instructional Design
Dr. Muktha Jost, Associate Professor, Instructional Technology
NC A & T State University
Participants will learn to apply Universal Design principles and Assistive Technology support to make curriculum accessible to all learners. Dr. Jost will demonstrate related AT devices.
Track: Education
Dec 04, 2009 8:30am - 9:30am Location: Salon C
Using iTouch To The Max In The Classroom
Jim Tignor, Occupational Therapist and AT Team Member
Chapel Hill/Carrboro Schools
Participants will see how the iTouch is used with students with disabilities for scheduling, communication, video self-modeling and a variety of functional life skill supports.
Track: Education
Dec 04, 2009 8:30am - 9:30am Location: Salon A & B
Using Visual Aids to teach Friendship Skills and Emotional Literacy in the Preschool Classroom
Mary J. Wilkie, Ph.D., LPA, ITFS, Staff Psychologist II
Andi Gelsthorpe, LCSW, Clinical Social Worker
Children's Developmental Services Agency of the Blue Ridge
Presenters will share ideas with providers and parents about ways AT increases children’s positive social interactions and their use of feeling words.
Track: Vision
Dec 03, 2009 3:30pm - 4:30pm Location: Boxwood
Visitable Homes: Five Positive Health Effects for All
Eleanor Smith, Director, Concrete Change
The presenter will define Visitability and highlight five health effects of universal basic access to homes.
Track: Promoting Healthy Living/Recreation
Dec 04, 2009 10:00am - 11:00am Location: Salon A & B
Visual Impairment and Assistive Technology…So many ‘things’ so few dollars!
Cindy M. Szulewski-Booth, M.S. CCC/SLP, Assistive Technology Specialist
New Hanover County Schools
The presenter will apply key AT Regulations to case studies using the SETT Framework by reviewing the Laws and Regulations, the SETT Framework and how to include AT in IEP/IAP. An overview of many types of AT for VI students from no cost to high cost will be presented.
Track: Vision
Dec 03, 2009 12:30pm - 1:30pm Location: Salon A and B
What’s New in Low Vision Equipment
Frank Beard, Director, Edna Beard, Consultant, Quintex of Asheville
Presenters will demonstrate the latest low vision devices that can be used in the home, the classroom, and the workplace.
Track: Vision
Dec 03, 2009 2:00pm - 3:00pm Location: Salon E
What’s New in Text Reader Software and Devices
Edna Beard, Distributor/Consultant, Quintex of Asheville
Presenter will demonstrate text reader software and devices, including the latest version of the Kurzweil 3000 software, the kReader Mobile, and the ClassMate Reader.
Track: AT Expo Exhibitors
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