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The purpose of this paper is to describe and compare five models of AT assessment: Matching Person and Technology, Lifespace Access Profile, SETT, Education Tech Points, and Wisconsin Assistive Technology Initiative Barbara E. Bromley, Ph.D. College of Education and Integrative Studies Cal Poly Pomona

The Communication Matrix is an assessment tool designed to pinpoint exactly how an individual is communicating and to provide a framework for determining logical communication goals

Wisconsin Assistive Technology Site - Assessing for Assistive Technology

Here's a great toolbox for a variety of strategies for differentiating instruction--assessment, curriculum, teaching strategies and organizers.

Excellent resources for implementing differentiated instruction-quiz to assess your knowledge of differentiation, and many tools for managing diferentiated instruction.

comprehensive site of resources for the AT consideration and assessment process

Assessing Student Needs for Assistive Technology manual, (4th edition pdf link here). They are working on a 5 th edition that will be aimed at RTI and curriculum content areas more specifically in organization.

"The AAC self-assessment Tool kit is designed for schools to look at the ways in which they are using Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) and Assistive Technology (AT) within the curriculum as well as for communication. It is entirely up to the school how they use the AAC Tool-Kit but there are several suggestions on the next page:"

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators offers teacher resources, including categorized lists of sites that are useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth.

It's Special Educational Needs Week on Teachers TV and we are showing your favourite SEN programmes. Differentiation in Action shows how you can differentiate tasks in the classroom to aid inclusion. The primary (Wednesday 4pm) episode looks at how puppets and text can be used to recognise speech in a KS1 class. The secondary (Tuesday 7.30pm) episode follows a history lesson where differentiation is used to great success and the pupils assess their own achievement as well as discussing which teaching styles they prefer and their preference for mixed achievement groupings. Also on this week is Being Different May be Cool, (Friday 7pm) an honest look at the challenges of dealing with children on the autistic spectrum through the lives of three autistic brothers and their mother.

Looks like some great shows on the Special Educational Needs Week programming this week-Teachers TV in the UK. This is an excellent site to bookmark and join their email list to be notified of new programs. Great videos for teachers.

"It's a features chart that could be used when a family or an IEP team is considering Mobile technology of any kind.   The idea is to start with the tasks that the student needs to do and then discuss what features a tool would have if it was used to support student achievement for those tasks. So-tasks across the top and features for those tasks down the left side.  And hopefully, for this part, we would not really talk about specific tools."

that quiz

Jim Wright Site

Have students create and comment on videos