As you have learned so far, there are standards of practice for AT service delivery as seen in the QIAT. As a part of best practice, schools are charged with developing procedures for AT Consideration so that all students on IEPs, no matter the severity of the disability, can receive quality AT services. This lesson will review promising practice for AT Consideration and provide a glimpse of sample operational procedures and optional forms that can be adopted by schools/districts to consistently consider the AT needs of all students on IEPs.
To complete this activity:
You will first want to check the following link to see if operational procedures have been developed and submitted to ABLE Tech because someone could have created them for you! The link is to the Helpful Resources Page and it is handy for several reasons as you’ll see.
- If you determine that your school/district does not already have operational procedures for AT Consideration, proceed in one of the following ways:
- Option 1: See if a team exists. Check to see if your school/district has an AT Support Team with Oklahoma ABLE Tech by clicking on the following link: Helpful Resources Page. These people may be able to help you either access existing operational procedures or draft new ones. If a team exists, you will want to ask your building principal, Special Education Director or other administrator in charge of special education services, or Superintendent to determine who the team members are.
- Option 2: Gather a team. If no team exists, or you are unable to determine who the team members are, consider gathering other regular/special educators and related services providers who may be interested in assistive technology, and each go through this curriculum – working together on all of the following courses – including this lesson/activity – that requires you to access/create operational procedures.
- Start by reviewing page 41* of the AT TA Guide to access Promising Practices, Sample Operational Procedures for AT Consideration, as well as an optional form you can use to consistently consider the AT needs of all students on IEPs (form is on pages 42 and 43*). Once your team has reviewed these pages, draft operational procedures for AT Consideration and upload them.
- ABLE Tech staff is happy to help you if you have questions or concerns along the way: 1-800-257-1705.
- Start by reviewing page 41* of the AT TA Guide to access Promising Practices, Sample Operational Procedures for AT Consideration, as well as an optional form you can use to consistently consider the AT needs of all students on IEPs (form is on pages 42 and 43*). Once your team has reviewed these pages, draft operational procedures for AT Consideration and upload them.
- Option 3: Be your own team! Keep going through this course independently, and review page 41* of the AT TA Guide to access Promising Practices, Sample Operational Procedures for AT Consideration, as well as an optional form you can use to consistently consider the AT needs of all students on IEPs (form is on pages 42 and 43*). Once you have reviewed these pages, draft your own operational procedures for AT Consideration to the best of your ability and upload them.
- ABLE Tech staff is happy to help you if you have questions or concerns along the way: 1-800-257-1705.
- Once you’ve either found, or developed, your operational procedures, you’ll be asked to upload them.
And, when your upload is completed, you will immediately be linked to Lesson 5: The Post-Self Appraisal for AT Consideration. If you get lost, you can always use the Course Navigation sidebar (right sidebar) to go to Course 5, Lesson 5.
* Pages 41-43 are embbeded below.