Assistive technology is defined as any item, piece of equipment, or product system that is used to increase, maintain, or improve functional capabilities of individuals with disabilities. Resources include information on how to identify, remediate, or accommodate students with special needs utilizing a wide range of assistive technology devices and tools.

 

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Assistive Technology for Alternate Assessment and Evidence-Based Practice

Find out some ways to use technology for ongoing accessible diagnostic and prescriptive curriculum planning and alternate assessment through general education curriculum software that has been designed for universal access and provides scaffolds for differentiated instruction.

Classroom Technology Management

Discover tips for arranging classroom technology to maximize learning and minimize potential disruptions.

Educational Technology

Educational Technology provides news, techniques, and theories of effective use of technology in education for use and consideration when implementing professional development.

Enhancing Your Instruction Through Differentiation

Enhancing Your Instruction Through Differentiation is a professional development module created by Access Center staff for technical assistance providers or district or State personnel. This module provides background information about differentiated instruction, demonstrates differentiation strategies, and addresses issues of implementation at the school and district level.

Access Center

Information Technology Making a Difference in Children's Lives: An Issue Brief for Leaders for Children

This Issue Brief urges groups working on children's issues to include technology planks in their platforms and policy agendas. In addition to working for equitable access to digital tools for underserved children, the report encourages leaders of children to lobby for changes in public programs serving children to make them more effective, efficient and accessible by incorporating information and communications technology.

Introduction to Assistive Technology

This module provides an overview of assistive technology used by children with disabilities ages 5-11: what it is and how it can be used to promote independent participation in elementary classrooms.

Assistive Technology Training Online Project

Maryland Assistive Technology Network

The Maryland Assistive Technology Network (MATN) provides assistive technology specialists information on the most up-to-date AT policies, practices, and devices. CTE offers professional development opportunities to MATN members through its semi-annual institutes with nationally acclaimed leaders in assistive technology, regional meetings, and the MATN Online Web site.

Maryland Online IEP

The Maryland Online IEP is a tool developed by Maryland State Department of Education Division of Special Education and Early Intervention Services in Partnership with Johns Hopkins University Center for Technology in Education with funding from IDEA Part B, the U.S. Department of Education. The tool produces and maintains one complete record of IEP information for each child. The result is a high level of data integrity and accuracy from which educators and the families they serve can make effective decisions.

Math Matrix

The math matrix is intended to serve as a resource that matches technology tools with supporting literature on promising practices for the instruction of math for students with disabilities. Search for products and evidence among the six purposes of technology that support reading for students with special needs.

CITEd

MATNOnline Wiki

This wiki provides educators in Maryland with resources to support the education of all students in a Universally Designed for Learning Classroom supports students with disabilities with the use of Assistive Technology.

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Reading Matrix

This matrix is intended to serve as a resource that matches technology tools with supporting literature on promising practices for the instruction of reading for students with disabilities. Search for products and evidence among the six purposes of technology that support reading for students with special needs.

NCTI

Social Media’s Power to Promote Assistive and Learning Technologies

Discover how social media works, learn about the benefits to using social media in assistive and learning technologies, and explore barriers to social media practices in this brief from the National Center for Technology Innovation.

Texas Assistive Technology Network AT Modules

Assistive Technology in Texas Schools Series Each module in the Assistive Technology in Texas Schools Series was designed for use by regional education service center and district staff responsible for assistive technology (AT) capacity-building in the state of Texas. The modules can be used to build knowledge and skills in AT service delivery at various levels throughout the state education system. The content of each module directly supports the legal mandate of IDEA’97 that requires that AT devices and services be provided to a student with disabilities if required as a part of the student’s Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE). These modules are aplicable to every state, not just Texas.

Texas Assistive Technology Network (TATN)

The Future of Assistive Technology (PDF)

This resource is the transcript from an assistive technology (AT) discussion held with experts. The discussion focuses on the current status of AT and how AT will continue to address the needs of diverse learners in the future.

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The Language of Learning (PDF)

The population of English Language Learners (ELL) in our schools is growing at a rapid rate. Just as assistive technologies (AT) are helpful for students with special needs, this article discusses how AT tools are beneficial for teaching ELL students.

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Tipline

This blog delivers daily computer tips in the form of web sites, files, and news for educators, parents, and administrators.

To Leave No Child Behind (PDF)

Educators are increasingly presented with the challenge of meeting accountability requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act, particularly for low-performing students or diverse learners. This article discusses the challenges and how assistive technology and universal design for learning seek to address those issues. 

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