PATINS Tech Expo 2020 with IN*SOURCE

Join Wabash Zoom presentation room for "Welcome & Networking"

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Meeting ID: 529 991 203


Welcome to the 2020 PATINS Tech Expo with IN*SOURCE first-ever virtual event!

Please join us for a welcome address from Daniel McNulty, PATINS Project Director, and Joel Boehner, IN*SOURCE Director.

Make a virtual business card on this Padlet wall to connect with other attendees today and beyond the expo. Share your email address for your opportunity to be entered to win a door prize!

Indiana educators have another chance to win a door prize for a specific student or classroom by filling out the PATINS Project's Refurbished Technology Form.

*Door prize entry closes at 2:15 pm EST
*Only Indiana residents are eligible for a door prize. One prize per attendee.

Need assistance? Come to the Wabash Room any time during the day for support.

View the slide deck on your own device bit.ly/TechExpoSlideDeck20

Pop into the virtual "Exhibit Hall" throughout the day to view information from a range of educational vendors and service organizations. You won't want to miss these amazing products and services that can help your child or student reach academic success at home and school.

This session dives deep into how to teach choice making skills to students, covering both theory and practice. We begin with an overview of the skill of choice making, including the components that go into it and important factors to successfully promote these skills. We then outline a detailed, step-by-step roadmap of how to progressively develop choice making skills by breaking it down into small, achievable steps. The roadmap begins with very early cause and effect responses and progresses all the way to making complex choices from multiple on-screen, abstract options. As we follow this progression, we consider how to implement appropriate practice opportunities at each stage, considering a variety of methods to cover a wide range of individual needs based on both physical and cognitive skills. We discuss an assortment of Assistive Technology devices and ways that they can be employed to make and communicate choices. The devices include: real world items; picture cards; switch communicators; environmental control units (using switches, iPads, and eye gaze); adapted toys (using switches, iPads, and eye gaze); AAC devices; fixed content, accessible software; and personalizable framework software. This section covers a range of both physical and cognitive ability levels; individual need and level of ability will determine which device is best for the user and how it can best be used to meet different goals. This section considers how different devices can be used in different ways to best meet individualized communication needs and abilities.

If you're hungry to know what's new with PRC and you're thirsty for AAC implementation ideas, let us serve you! Our presentation "menu" includes an overview of what's new with PRC (devices, access methods, language systems) and an implementation focus on literacy (reading & writing with AAC). Come nourish your AAC soul! Everyone loves coming to the Tech Expo to learn about the latest and greatest assistive technology available, but the feedback we hear always includes "more implementation"! In this presentation, we will share what's new with PRC (devices, access methods, language systems) but also spend a majority of the time talking about real-world application of our AAC solutions in the classroom. Our implementation focus will be on literacy - both reading and writing with AAC. We will talk about the new 2020 PRC Literacy Planner and will provide ideas on how to incorporate Writer's Workshop or Author's Chair into AAC literacy instruction.

enCORE means the best in inclusion and access to age and grade-equivalent general curriculum for students with moderate to severe intellectual disabilities. It is an adapted core curriculum designed to deliver standards-based systematic instruction that is comprehensive and engaging to meet the needs of students and teachers of today. TeachTown will present slides and a demo of enCORE which is our latest and greatest contribution to the field of special education curriculum. It will give attendees insight into its web/app platform, lessons, and hands-on and technology-facilitated approach for delivering systematic and differentiated alternate core/general curriculum access to language arts, social studies, science, and math instruction for students with moderate to severe intellectual disabilities. We hope to demonstrate how the robust and flexible design benefits classrooms of today.

Individuals and families access an array of integrated supports to achieve a good life. We will discuss how using the principles of the LifeCourse Framework assists families, individuals, and professionals in identifying and creating pathways to achieve successful and meaningful outcomes that lead to their vision of a good life.

The Charting the LifeCourse Framework was created BY FAMILIES to help individuals and families of all abilities and all ages develop a vision for a good life, think about what they need to know and do, identify how to find or develop supports, and discover what it takes to live the lives they want to live. Individuals and families may focus on their current situation and stage of life but may also find it helpful to look ahead to think about life experiences that will help move them toward an inclusive, productive life in the future.
Even though it was originally created for people with disabilities, this universally-designed framework may be used by any person or family making a life plan, regardless of life circumstances.
There are several guiding principles in the LifeCourse Framework. For this session, we will focus mainly on the principle of Integrated Supports. In the past, conversations about supporting people with disabilities and their families mainly revolved around the supports offered by the disability service system. When in reality individuals and families access an array of integrated supports to achieve the envisioned good life, including those that are publicly or privately funded and based on eligibility; community supports that are available to anyone; relationship-based Supports; technology; and that take into account the assets and strengths of the individual and family.

The LifeCourse Frameworks help families, as well as organizations and policymakers, understand that we ALL access a variety of supports to make it through our daily lives. The core principle of the LifeCourse Framework is that All people have the right to live, love, work, play and pursue their life aspirations in their community.

Utilizing the latest advancements in technology to create personalized instructional solutions proven to increase reading and math achievement. Showcasing solutions that combine explicit direct online instruction and artificial intelligence to achieve results faster and more efficiently than ever before. Indiana data and results will be shared.

This presentation will include data and results from local school districts that utilize Mindplay, Ascend Math. We will describe how these programs utilize the latest advancements in technology to create online personalized instructional solutions that translate to growth on standardized tests. Combining explicit direct instruction and artificial intelligence enable students to achieve results faster and more efficiently than ever before.

Instructional Adaptive Technology for Reading and Math presentation PowerPoint

Explore new communication solutions of Snap Core First that support communication engagement, literacy and language growth. We will focus on techniques for customization, simplification, and implementation. Snap Core First is free for SLPs and is accessible on IOS or windows-based tablets and supports all access methods.

Learn about the communication solutions of Snap Core First that support communication engagement, literacy and language growth. We will focus on techniques for customization, simplification, and implementation.

Learners will be able to:
Identify two tips to help plan for communication success.
Describe two ways to allow for vocabulary growth in Snap Core First.
Identify one benefit of using the collaboration tools in Snap Core First.

Having an Individualized Health Plan (IHP) is critical not only for health and safety but to provide access to the school environment. An appropriate IHP followed with fidelity can have health, psychosocial and academic benefits. A solid IHP can be a great basis for 504 and IEP documents when necessary.

• Overview of IHP purpose
• When an IHP is needed
• IHP scope
• IHP components and accommodations
• IHP accountability
• Integration into 504/IEP

Technologies using automatic speech recognition (ASR) in apps and software on mobile devices, computers and even news broadcasts, continue to expand their reach. This workshop will give you an overview of the pros and cons of this technology, demonstrations of apps designed for speech-to-text translation, examples of subtitles within other applications, suggestions for integrating with remote microphone technology and resources to access later.

I will start with a brief overview of how speech-to-text technologies (STT) are currently being used and help the audience consider possible future applications.

Next, I will discuss tools to maximize use of STT including checklists and feedback forms to determine if a student is ready for STT. Then, I will highlight some accessories and remote microphone technology options to provide the best possible input signal.

We will then review various app-based and web-based options for STT, discussing features for each of them. This includes discussion about which situations are best suited to that particular technology. Apps to be reviewed (though some may be added at a later date) include: Microsoft – Translator, PowerPoint and Skype / Google - Live Transcribe and Slides / Interact Streamer / Clips / Ava / webcaptioner.com.

Lastly, we will talk about the paucity of data looking at the efficacy and validity of using STT compared to using live captioners. There will be discussion of some possible metrics and current studies.

Google has made UDL possible through Chromebooks and Google Classroom. Many tools are built-in, while extensions go deeper for full access to the curriculum. We will demonstrate Snap&Read, Co:Writer, and Quizbot for Google that features annotation, accessible quizzes, language supports, writing supports, text leveling, and study tools.

Participants will learn how to make learning accessible to a wide range of students with diverse learning styles and abilities through technologies for Google. They will see tools that address reading and writing needs stemming from ELL, dyslexia, and learning disabilities. This session includes videos and data from districts that are getting outcomes with the learning technologies demonstrated.

Session Agenda:
10 mins: Introduction to providing access to the curriculum and ESSA and interactive discussion.
15 mins: Providing independent access to grade-level text with Snap&Read for Google.
10 mins: How to quickly understand what students comprehend through Google Forms and Quizbot.
15 mins: Addressing writing needs with Co:Writer for Google.
10 mins: Final questions and implementation resources.

This presentation will cover the latest and greatest AT solutions for Low Vision & Blindness in the classroom and beyond. We will present the newest, cutting edge AT solutions for the K-12 classroom.

Take an hour for lunch and view the many companies and organizations in the virtual Exhibit Hall!

This is also a great time to stretch, take a brain break, and check out the Padlet for more networking opportunities. Remember to share your email on the Padlet wall for the chance to win a door prize at the end of the Tech Expo. Also, Indiana educators can complete the Refurbished Technology Form to be entered to win a device for a specific student or for their school.

This session will provide an overview of what’s new with Saltillo’s communication solutions and services. Saltillo offers communication devices, support & implementation solutions, as well as, iOS apps. Information about recent updates, products, and services will be shared (e.g., new AERO switch, increased line of active and classic wraps, and new IOS device). This second half of this session will provide an overview of the characteristics, roles, and responsibilities of communication partners working with people who use AAC, with a focus on aided language input. Aided language input is a strategy in which the communication partner uses AAC to teach AAC. Shared reading will be discussed as a vehicle for learning to use aided language input to support device implementation and facilitate language learning, as well as ways to model the device in various environments.

SiLAS’s mission is to equip today’s learners with social-emotional skills necessary to thrive in today’s society. SiLAS provides educators over 120 lessons embedded with EBP focusing on over 40 SEL concepts to use with learners. The curriculum components include implementation ideas at all three MTSS tiers, UDL, and SDI.

Participants will hear from a special education director implementing the program in her district. Attendees will also come away with a process to put into place a tiered system of supports meeting ESSA’s mandates to educate the “whole child.” Presenters will facilitate a discussion assisting professionals in the development of an effective framework for classrooms, schools, and districts to use in all educational settings. Attendees will also have the opportunity to view SiLAS’s blended learning approach; including table-top learning, gamification, and experiential learning. The audience will be presented with a specific student’s profile to demonstrate how SiLAS can be designed for students with varying needs and abilities. Educators will gain an understanding of a learning continuum that includes CASEL’s Five Social Competencies, Multi-Tiered Systems of Supports, Universal Design for Learning, and Specifically Designed Instruction.

Explore best practices in early childhood settings, for a diverse population including students with and without disabilities, that provides for the active, inclusive and meaningful participation of ALL young learners. Learn how to leverage LessonPix as an essential resource in any Universally Designed early childhood setting, including the creation of visual supports, resources for communication, and engaging, accessible curriculum materials.

Today's early childhood classroom is increasingly diverse and since the 2015 Federal Policy Statement on Inclusion of Children with Disabilities in Early Childhood Programs, schools must provide all children with an inclusive, high-quality education regardless of disability. How are you going to do that with your current time and budget constraints? The solution is to build a Universally Designed for Learning classroom that reaches every child in your care using LessonPix to create custom learning resources. This session will highlight best practices in early childhood settings, for a diverse population including students with and without disabilities, that provide for the active, inclusive and meaningful participation of ALL young learners. We will focus on how to leverage LessonPix as an essential resource in any Universally Designed early childhood setting, including the creation of visual supports, resources for communication, and engaging, accessible curriculum materials.

The FINDER program is a FREE, comprehensive state-wide online service designed to locate local services and programs to help students and families with special needs. This interactive presentation will introduce FINDER - what it is, how it works and the many ways it can support children, families, and professionals seeking resources. It includes a live demonstration based on audience suggestions and interests. In its first year of operations, the FINDER program has continued to rapidly expand, add features, functionality, and content. There is so much new and useful information to discover.

In its first year of operations, the FINDER program has continued to rapidly expand, add features, functionality, and content. There is so much new and useful information to discover. This online resource designed to collect and organize contact and service information from providers across Indiana gives FREE 24/7 access to community resources aimed to improve educational opportunities and quality of life for students, families, and professionals. For more information, visit IndianaDisabilityResourceFINDER.org.

What every administrator, teacher, parent and advocate needs to know about Assistive Technology (AT) in the annual IEP. Come learn about the types of AT used in statewide assessments, planning for student success, how to avoid common pitfalls and conclude with Q&A with the IDOE Assessment Accessibility Specialist.

This session will begin with an overview of Article 7 and how we are legally bound to address AT for each student uniquely and annually. Next, the IIEP system will be examined, with specific attention to the exact places where AT is required to be addressed and concrete examples shared. Then, accommodations within the IEP will be focused on, giving special interest to the accommodations that directly address AT and are also a part of the statewide assessment accommodations. The session will end with planning for successful implementation of AT supports the Top 5-10 common pitfalls to avoid when addressing AT and testing, leaving 15 minutes for Q&A. Participants will receive tools and handouts that are "Hot Off the Press" support testing and AT with success at a glance for each state mandated assessment.

Attendees will get hands-on experience with the ProxTalker, ProxPAD, and Instant Language Assistant. We will show videos of the devices in use and display options to adapt these devices for non-verbal users, low-vision users and others. We will talk about some different and unique ways to use these devices, including adaptation for independent learning in the classroom and we will discuss the STEPS Communication Guide, which is a curriculum option for teachers and therapists.

Senate Bill 345 called for a commission to be developed for the ongoing development of safe seclusion and restraint in schools. This session will discuss seclusion and restraint rules and definitions, training and monitoring requirements of those rules, and options if parents have questions or concerns about the application of those rules in their school district, as well updates as the current rules, regulations and findings of the commission.

Incorporate the best practices of systematic and direct instruction effortlessly! Attainment’s Early Literacy Skills Builder (ELSB) and Early Reading Skills Builder (ERSB) are research-validated multiyear literacy and reading curriculum in a technology-based format for students with moderate to significant disabilities. The programs read teacher scripts with appropriate inflections and pace, allowing you to focus solely on student behavior and learning. You can set up instruction as a class or individually. Students create unique avatars and progress is recorded as assessments are taken at the end of each level. Not a Reading Specialist? You don’t have to be!

Imagine engaging your students with 26 Zoo Animals that spring to life in 3-D! Classrooms Alive allows you to create a magical, zoo-themed learning experience with a full suite of our early learning products. Our zoo animals interact with your students as they learn the foundations for reading and math! Stop by to meet our Zoo Crew.

Letters alive is an award-winning, evidence-based, supplemental reading and writing program that incorporates multiple learning modalities and a cross-curricular approach to teach letters, letter sounds, word building, sentence building, and writing. This brain-based, early literacy program includes a magical, zoo-themed supplemental curriculum aligned to ELA Standards for Kindergarten that will enhance your literacy block. The full-year of lesson plans take your students on a zoo tour with 26 3D augmented reality animals; tying science in with literacy instruction. Your students will hear, see, touch, build, and speak while enjoying a positive and engaging learning experience that is proven to boost reading proficiency and increase knowledge retention.

Join Texthelp's Director of Product Management, Jason Carroll, and Territory Director (not to mention former 16 year Indiana educator!) Joni Degner to learn about Texthelp's array of products to help struggling readers and writers. Learn first-hand how tools like Read&Write can help struggling learners while getting a rare glimpse into some of the new and exciting features the development team has been working on. Resources on how to get up and running quickly, along with considerations for remote learning will also be shared!

Slides for Reading and Writing HELP for Diverse Learners!

Texthelp Resources

Join Wabash Zoom presentation room for "Educational Door Prize Announcements"

To join by phone:
+16465588656,,529991203# US (New York)
+13126266799,,529991203# US (Chicago)
Meeting ID: 529 991 203


Who will walk away with one of the lucky door prizes?

All submissions through the Padlet wall and Refurbished Technology Form will close at 2:15 PM EST. Enter in Wabash Zoom Room for the door prize announcements!

*Only Indiana residents eligible for a door prize. One prize per attendee.