Getting to Know Technology for People with Disabilities
Length: 2-4 hours depending on need. Participants learn definitions, general principles, considerations for choosing technology, participate in group activities, and survey a variety of devices.
Making Your Own Technology for People with Disabilities
Length: 2 hours. This session helps people, "get out of the box." It dispels myths about technology for people with disabilities being high tech and expensive and demonstrates for them how creative thinking and "good junk" can make some very effective and low cost technologies.
You, Your Child and Special Education
Length: 4 hours. Parents CAN be effective advocates and equal partners when planning their child's IEP. This workshop teaches them how to do it. Covers not only the law, but strategies to use to make the law work for their child.
Educational Technology and the IEP or 504 Plan
Length: 2 hours. What is a school district required to provide to a child with a disability? This session looks at what IDEA (the Individuals with Disability Education Act) and Section 504 of the Rehab Act say about the topic. It covers how and when families and IEP/504 teams should consider educational technologies and offers guides for both district personnel and parents.
How to Fund Technologies for People with Disabilities
Length: 4 hours. Often people unknowingly disqualify themselves from a funding source by saying the wrong thing or providing the wrong kind of documentation. This session teaches participants how to "play the funding game." Funding sources covered are: private insurance, Medicaid, Office of Rehabilitation Services, school and private funding entities. Participants should be able to take the principles they learn here and apply them to other funding sources.
Design Your Own Workshop
Length 1-2 hours. Customize a workshop to meet your specific need in the area of Older adults, Early Intervention, Employment or Disability specific. Demos and handouts included.
Non-profit organizations
Our federal mandate is to serve agencies, schools, universities potential and current AT users and service providers. There is no cost to these groups, (unless they have less than 10 people attending . . . the entire workshop). In those cases, the agency must reimburse us for actual costs associated with the training. Contact the Tech Connect for more details.
For-profit organizations Fees for the training sessions are $150.00/day, plus expenses which include $.31/mile travel to/from Springfield. If overnight travel is involved, a $28.00 per diem and lodging expenses will also apply. (Fees subject to change without notice.)
