EDUC 477/698O:
Assistive Technology/Universal Design for the General Classroom
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Author: Arden Sotomayor
- What are some ways that a parent can get funding for assistive technology
devices? See http://www.nls.org/natmain.htm to find out.
- What information does the U.S. Department of Education have on its website
to assist people with assistive technology? See their website to find
out
http://www.ed.gov/policy/speced/guid/idea/idea2004.html You will have
to search the topics to see the information.
- What does IDEA 1990 and 1997
mandate about assistive technology? http://atto.buffalo.edu/registered/ATBasics/Foundation/Laws/index.php
- How
can you become an informed consumer about assistive technology? Find out
from this website: http://www.familyvillage.wisc.edu/education/at.html
- What is NATTAP and how
does it help individuals with assistive technology needs?
http://www.resna.org/taproject/
Answers submitted by Author: Melissa Gunther
- They can access their state’s vocational rehabilitation agency.
They can also use Medicaid or Medicare, if the AT can be used in conjunction
to help a medical related problem. And they could also use SSI's Plan for
Achieving Self Support.
- The U.S. Department of Education’s website provides all the laws,
mandates and policies regarding special education and also provides all the
grant
opportunities and policies surrounding grants for Assistive Technology in
the classroom.
- The 1990 and 1997 IDEA laws defined “Assistive Technology Devices and
Services for children with disabilities for inclusion in the IEP” and
the 1997 IDEA included the mandate to consider “Assistive Technology
Devices and Services on the IEP's of all students. Use of school-purchased
AT in a child's home or other settings is required if the child needs access
to those devices to receive FAPE.”
- To become truly informed about assistive technology as a consumer you
can read NEWS DIGEST the newsletter from the National Information Center
for
Children and Youth with Disabilities (NICHCY).
- NATTAP is the National Assistive Technology Technical Assistance Partnership.
It helps individuals with assistive technology by providing technical
assistance to people with assistive technology problems and they also try
to reduce
barriers and increase access to assistive technologies. .