Assistive Technology

Assistive Technology in Colquitt County Schools

AT REQUEST FORM

Please email one of the Assistive Technology Team Members with your request.

AT Resources

Considering AT in the IEP

AT GUIDELINES FROM GPAT:

When is AT considered?
When the student is not successful.
When a student's situation or location changes.
During ALL IEP meetings.

Who chooses the AT?
Members of the IEP team.
The student (most important)
The AT team.

What is Available?
Low tech (colored paper, pencil grips)
Middle Tech (calculators, recorders, AAC devices)
High Tech (computers, keyboards, AAC devices)

How do I get AT?
Contact the AT team.

Simple Guide:

At must be considered at all IEP meetings.
The AT Consideration Form in TIENET must be used.
If a student is successful in class with:
STANDARD TOOLS AND METHODS
OR...
ACCOMMODATIONS AND MODIFICATIONS
THEN AT IS NOT NEEDED.

If AT is assigned it must be monitored/changed
as needed.

Meet the ATeam

Jessica Branch: Occupational Therapist
Sharon Davidson: Intervention Specialist
Summer Hall: Reading Specialist
Amanda Horne: Speech/Language Pathologist
Tiffany Martin: Occupational Therapist
Sherice White: Computer Tech Specialist

Book Share Initiative

Book Share Instructions
These videos will help you use Book Share.
Book Share Video One (Overview)
Book Share Video Two (Organization, Sponsors, Members, Qualifications)
Book Share Video Three (The Reading Tools)
Book Share Video Four (Downloading a Book)
Book Share Video Five (Reading and Using a Book)

Guides and Examples

Co-Teaching in Colquitt County

Watch this PowerPoint to see guidelines to Co-Teaching as well as some awesome examples of co-teaching in action in our schools.

Colors and Learning

Watch this PowerPoint to find out how color can help your students learn better.

Smart Board Lessons

These Smart Board lessons are created for
teachers to use for
instruction and/or testing.

Math: M4N1B M3G1 M4N1A Perfect Squares M4M1C M4M1C M8G1 Math Examples	Science: S4P3 S4E3 Writing: ABC	Social Sciences: SS8G1 See other files at: Previous AT Page

Text/HTML

We have ADAPTED books to help your students access literature
and master standards in reading.
These books contain CD's with activities you can
display for your entire class.
We have also had the books printed for you to check out.
The books have less text and more graphics.
Titles Ready for use:
Across Five Aprils
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Annabel Lee (poem)
Because of Winn Dixie
Brown Bear, Brown Bear
Baseball Across the World
Camouflage
Charlotte's Web
Five Little Monkeys
Jumping on the Bed
France
Gingerbread Baby
Goodnight Gorilla
Julius Caesar
The Mitten
Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe
The Napping House
The Odyssey
Of Mice and Men
Oliver Twist
Old Yeller
Goodnight Moon
The Great Gatsby
The Great Kapok Tree
Hatchet
How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food?
How to Eat Fried Worms
If you Give a Mouse a Cookie
If you Give a Pig a Party
The Interlopers
The Jacket I wear in the Snow
Les Miserables
Learn About China
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Renaissance Times
Romeo and Juliet
Secret Life of Bees
Sounder
To Kill a Mockingbird
Stone Fox
Very Hungry Caterpillar

Also see the adapted books at Don Johnston. They have over 400 titles of
fiction and non-fiction (K-12) that are written so that students who read
on a 3-5 grade level can access and understand the literature
required in the upper grades.

Textbook Technology

Materials and Resources from Presentations and Workshops conducted by the Assistive Technology Team:

RESA, Lenox, January 2012

Websites: www.colquitt.k12.ga.us (Departments/PEC/Assistive Technology

www.donjohnston.com (Co-Writer, Read Out Loud, Write Out Loud )

Downloads: Audacity for Windows or Mac (free download that lets your computer record and save audio files)

Resources: Alternative Activities for Communication     alternative activities..pdf
                    Ease of Access in Windows 7
                    AAC from GPAT
                    Adapted Books