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Staff members do not understand their own roles and responsibilities in AT implementation.
Reason: Staff members do not understand their own roles and responsibilities in AT implementation.
Reason Group: Lack of planning
Resource: Implementation Plan form
Implementation Plan form: This form helps teams to identify the roles and responsibilities of each team member in the implementation of a plan for a student's assistive technology use.
Type: form
Resource: AT as Positive Behavior Support
This example of a way to think about using assistive technology as part of the support strategies in a Positive Behavior Support (PBS) program.
Type: form
Cost: free
Action: Provide training.
Resource: AT Vendors
A very readable, alphabetized list of AT vendors http://www.lburkhart.com/sr.htm ;
Type: website
Cost: 0
Resource: Online tutorial-commercial
Check Atomic Learning or other commercial sites to see if they have a tutorial on the tool: http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/assistivetechnology_tutorials
Type: website
Cost: 0
Resource: Online tutorial-free
Look for free tutorials such as the Tech Quick Guides at Montgomery County Public Schools
http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/hiat/techquick_guides
Type: website
Cost: 0
Resource: Assistive Technology Training Online
http://www.atto.buffalo.eduThis website offers many training modules and resources for a wide variety of technology applications from adapted uses of Microsoft Word to instructions on how to complete an assistive technolgy assessment.
Type: website
Cost: $0
Action: Review AT Implementation Plan or develop a plan in writing with assigned staff responsibilities
Resource: Implementation Plan form
Implementation Plan form: This form helps teams to identify the roles and responsibilities of each team member in the implementation of a plan for a student's assistive technology use.
Type: form
Resource: Routines/Tools and Strategies form
Routine/Tools and Strategies Form: This form helps the team idenfiy the tools and strategies that will be needed for each part of a child's day.
Type: form
Cost: AT Help Desk