iPad Boot Camp: Awesome New iPad Apps, Adaptations, and Accessories
Missoula
January 9 and 10, 2020
January 9, 2020
- The awesome iPad and it’s many features to support students with disabilities
- Resources for finding appropriate apps for specific functional limitations
- There is an app for that—feature mapping and finding appropriate apps
- Create access solutions for the iPad for vision impairments—tactile overlays
- Build a multi-use iPad holder
- Creating and using a scan and read station for the iPad for students with print disabilities
- Creating access solutions for physical impairments
January 10, 2020
- 101 Uses for the iPad camera to support students with disabilities
- Explore 10 ways to Interact with the iPad without ever touching the device – using voice, geo fencing, switch access
- Creating access solutions for students with communication impairments
- Apps and executive function impairments
- Apps and adaptations for deaf and hard of hearing
- Apps for self-regulation and relaxation
- iPad access when using a wheelchair, table, floor, car or bed to accommodate for physical limitations
Quotes from previous attendees: "Great visuals, videos and hands-on!" "I loved how practical this was." "It was an awesome workshop. I absolutely loved it. Therese has a great sense of humor and is fun to listen to!"
Therese Willkomm, PhD, ATP, is currently the director of the New Hampshire statewide assistive technology program with the Institute on Disability and a clinical associate professor at the University of New Hampshire. She has been engaged in providing and managing assistive technology services for over 28 years in the areas of home, school, and worksite modifications for persons with disabilities. She is known nationally and internationally as “The MacGyver of Assistive Technology.” She has invented over 600 different Assistive Technology solutions including 50 different iPad solutions.
More information and registration for the workshop can be found here.
For more information, contact:
Doug Doty, Statewide Coordinator, OPI Montana Autism Education Project
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The OPI is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to people with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation, require an alternate format, or have questions concerning accessibility, contact the OPI ADA Coordinator, 406-444-3161, opiada@mt.gov, TTY 406-444-0235.
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