Gayl Bowser – författare
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More than 6 million children with disabilities in North America require assistive technology and related services each year in order to participate and succeed in school. This book, Quality Indicators for Assistive Technology, provides an essential guide for assessing a child''s needs, choosing and implementing the right technologies and services, and training education professionals in how to optimize learning with these critical tools.
Work on the Quality Indicators for Assistive Technology (QIAT) began in the summer of 1998 when a group of assistive technology (AT) service providers shared their concerns about the complexity of selecting, locating, and delivering AT and AT services in K-12 and postsecondary environments. They agreed on the need for professional guidelines to improve the quality and consistency of AT delivery.
Since then, the QIAT Leadership Team has gathered input from more than 4,000 individuals ranging from students and families to school staff, policy makers, and higher education faculty. After many drafts and revisions informed by the field, the result is the Quality Indicators for Assistive Technology: A Comprehensive Guide to Assistive Technology Services.
This book will prove indispensable for:
School districts as they strive to develop and provide quality assistive technology servicesaligned to federal, state, and local mandatesAssistive technology service providers as they evaluate and constantly improve their servicesConsumers of assistive technology services as they seek appropriate assistive technologyservices that meet their needsUniversities and professional developers as they conduct research and deliver programs thatpromote the development of the competencies needed to provide quality assistive technologyservicesPolicy makers as they attempt to develop judicious and equitable policies related to assistivetechnology services.Filled with information and supports such as self-evaluation matrices, suggested activities, checklists, and other helpful tools, Quality Indicators for Assistive Technology is a clearly written and well-organized resource for those who seek to ensure that quality AT services are provided.
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Leading the Way to Excellence in AT Services is designed to help administrators identify critical issues and specific actions that will influence the provision of excellent assistive technology (AT) devices and services.
AT experts Gayl Bowser and Penny R. Reed examine four aspects of school administration—leadership, program management, supervision, and advocacy and program improvement—and their relationship to AT. The result is an authoritative and useful guide that explains the legal, ethical, and practical reasons for providing high-quality AT to every student who needs it.
In this highly practical book, readers learn to:
identify ways to support educational programs that encourage and sustain students’ and educators’ use of AT; create and share a vision of their agency’s approach to providing AT devices and services;manage material resources, allocation of personnel, time, and physical resources in a way that helps to provide an efficient, ethical, and cost-effective AT system; support educators in learning and applying pedagogical strategies for integrating the use of AT into the educational programs of students with disabilities; and regularly assess AT services and identify strategies to improve the current model.The authors showcase a number of resources, self-assessment tools, and specific strategies to help administrators and schools deliver assistive technology services that are academically effective and also cost effective.