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Written By Janice Reese
Free training available now

I know we are all doing what we can to hang on during this crisis so let’s make the best use of our newfound ‘free time’. How about some free learning opportunities to boost your skills with assistive technology over the coming months?! Our AT Center has continued to provide services to staff within our schools since they closed and we’ve spent a lot of time putting together some great new learning resources for everybody. Let’s start off with this lil’ freebie…

Free & Frugal: Assistive Technology on a Budget

 
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Right now a LOT of vendors are offering free access to their programs and products until the end of the school year (see our list here), but there are a TON of ‘always free’ resources that you may not be aware of. In this session, we will cover free (and almost free) AT resources to address communication, reading, writing, math, memory, organization, focus, and fun.

Sessions are currently 60-minutes long and provided via video-conference format. All sessions will be available onsite, in-person once we have been permitted to return to the real world! If you are interested in this free training, please contact the AT Center at at.center@ltvec.org. Free is our friend…and is always in the budget!

Janice Reese

My name is Janice Reese and I LOVE assistive technology! I worked as an Occupational Therapist for more than 15 years, earned a Master’s degree in Education Technology, and I’m RESNA certified as an Assistive Technology Profession (ATP). I have worked in the school system for many years now and I love using technology to enhance the lives of children with disabilities. Since my first love is teaching, I’ve spent just as much time training wonderful teachers everywhere to use these tools in their classrooms. AT4Kids, llc was founded in 2008 in an effort to provide quality instruction and resources for teachers, therapists, student users and parents who wanted to know more about using AT.

I currently serve as Director of the Center for Assistive Technology, a state-supported program of the Little TN Valley Educational Cooperative. LTVEC is a non-profit agency whose goal is to provide rehabilitation services and accessibility supports for students with special needs in east Tennessee. My AT4Kids blog is designed to be as a one-stop resource for ideas and information for those wanting to learn more about the use of AT with children in the special education setting.

I hope to offer helpful hints, program and product reviews, AT recommendations, links to great new finds on the web, and lists of resources for “all things AT”.

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