FREE Webinars Tomorrow & Wed. from AbleNet

Tuesday, 02/11/2014

Designing Your Treasure Chest of Tools to Advance Children With Significant Needs
In this final session in this series on advancing outcomes for children with severe and multiple disabilities, you will learn how to provide a variety of support tools to maximally involve your students in learning and strengthen their concept-knowledge to reach desired outcomes. Based on the research-supported Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles, the tools in the treasure chest will offer various formats to increase student access to learning and opportunities for them to respond in non-traditional ways. The following tools will be included: 
   • Interactive Books 
   • Comprehension-Story Organizer Tools 
   • Response-Participation Tools 
   • A Object-based Daily Calendar and Activity Schedule
   • Adapted Stamp and Gloves 

• Time: 11:00 AM to 11:45 AM CST
• Presenter: Padmaja Sarathy MA, Author and Educational Consultant
• Level: Beginner



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Wednesday, 02/12/2014

QIAT Session 6: Evaluation of the Effectiveness of AT
This QIAT area addresses the evaluation of the effectiveness of the AT devices and services provided to individual students. It includes data collection, documentation and analysis to monitor changes in student performance resulting from the implementation of assistive technology services. Student performance is reviewed in order to identify if, when, or where modifications and revisions to the AT implementation plan are needed. 

• Time: 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM CST
• Presenter: Jane Korsten & Terry Foss of QIAT.org 
• Level: Beginner/Intermediate

Apps for Independence Webinar (2/27/14, $55)

Link to more information & registration - HERE

Winter Quarterly Meeting - Tues. 2/18/14

SCAAC-N Winter Quarterly Meeting, 2014

"Assessment to Outcomes, Part I - Autism"

Join us for our FREE, networking and information meeting on Tuesday, February 18th, 2014 where Gwendolyn Meier, SLP of Villa Esperanza Services will reprise her presentation "AAC in ASD: Two Journeys from Assessment to Outcomes" from ATI 2014, sharing two recent case studies. Come and hear about the path that a female high school student with ASD is traveling toward a robust communication system and also the unexpected route an elementary student followed from no-tech to high-tech in two short years.

Where: Villa Esperanza Services, 2116 E. Villa Street, Pasadena, CA 91107

             Brick building on the corner of Craig Ave. Street parking available.
When:  Tuesday, February 18 - 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Cost:    FREE! as always. Snacks and beverages are provided.

Please RSVP by Monday, February 17th, to socalaacnetwork@gmail.com so we can have a chair, handout, and snacks for you and your colleagues...

Hope to see you Feb 18th in Pasadena!

Google in Education West Coast Summit, Palm Springs, 3/22-23

After the close of the CUE Conference (3/20-22) stay for the Google in Education West Coast Summit (Sat-Sun; 3/22-23).

As campuses across the globe adopt Google solutions to support student learning, powerful and affordable professional development is essential. Join us for an engaging summit focused on infusing Google in Education in K-20 environments. CUE’s Professional Learning Program will provide two keynotes and dozens of sessions with hands-on activities led by Google Certified Teachers and Google Apps Certified Trainers, including instructional strategies with ties to Common Core. All attendees will be invited to the Google Workshops for Educators Network (GWEN), an online community focused on supporting educators as they learn more about the power of Google to drive student learning 

Registration Now Open (at CUE), CLICK HERE

CUE 2014 Conference Attendees: $75

Summit Attendance Only: $150

CUE Conference, Palm Springs 3/20-22 (Thurs-Sat)

Keynotes: Sal Khan, LeVar Burton and Dan Meyer

Take a look at the brochure CLICK HERE.

CUE (Computer Using Educators), Inc. is a professional organization of educators that supports the use of technology in education. For over 30 years, technology-using educators have been meeting at the CUE Conferences to advance student achievement at all levels of education and to address the use of Education Technology in instruction, administration, curriculum and management. 

Who Should Attend?
Classroom teachers, administrators, library media teachers, higher education, school board members, technology leaders, IT professionals, parents and those who support CUE’s mission of advancing  student achievement through technology. Students 16 and over are welcome to register.

Come for the conference, stay for the Google in Education West Coast Summit (3/22-23; Sat-Sun)...

SoCal K-12 AT Network Mailing List

Join the mailing list for the SoCal K-12 AT Network (not to be confused with SCAAC-N). This new(ish) group that meets monthly in Alhambra with presentations and a forum for sharing for K-12 AT personnel from San Diego to San Bernadino to Ventura. This group was started over a year ago by Susan Simmons (CA Diagnostic Center) and friends and is a great place to meet, share, and learn hosted by Jenn Park, AT Specialist, at the West San Gabriel Valley SELPA offices.

Join the mailing list CLICK HERE.

The next meeting of the SoCal K-12 AT Network will be March 27 at 9:00 a.m. (15 W. Alhambra Rd) with a presentation on "Systems and Strategies for Integrating AAC in the Classroom" by Sharon Redner, SLP (Ventura County Office of Ed, Adaptive Tech Center).

FREE Special Ed Conference, South Pasadena (3/1/14)

While not an AAC event, per se, the 3rd annual South Pasadena Special Needs Conference is free half day of sessions and vendors that is open to the public of parents, professionals, and carers thirsty for information...

Click HERE for specifics