| Issues |
People |
Collaborative |
Our Recommendations |
| Technological and physical impact of ADA and other legal issues |
- Attorneys
- ADA experts
- Assistive technology personnel
- TLT Collaborative
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- Portal to provide information about the standards, issues, and needs
- Consulting guidance
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- **** Make sure every campus has an Assistive Technology Group to address that university's issues and be a liaison with other universities.
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| Legal - ADA, etc |
- Attorneys
- ADA experts
- Assistive technology personnel
- TLT Collaborative
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- Portal to provide information about the standards, issues, and needs
- Listing of experts, offices, documents
- Publish a newsletter periodically on these issues.
- Identifying personnel in each university and system-wide
- Explore standards of practice for compliance
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- We need a mechanism(s) to publish/disseminate information.
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| Web page compliance with ADA |
- Web Masters and Specialists
- IT personnel who do training
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- Portal to provide information about the standards, issues, and needs
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- Make sure all web masters and specialists are provided with opportunities to be up-dated on accessibility issues.
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| Identification of alternative software to help with picture/text issues |
- AT person at universities
- Web Master
- ADA compliance officers
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- Serve as a portal for providing information about software programs and/or alternative means by which picture/text are displayed
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| Partnering with schools, depts., etc. (School of Deaf) |
- TLT - Assistive technology person
- State level associations
- NCCCS and DPI personnel
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- TLT - Assistive Technology person establish those contacts, get that input, and share information to universities
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| Awareness Forums |
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- TLT group visit campuses and highlight assistive technologies (meet with the newly formed campus assistive technology committees and others)
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- General awareness workshops, sessions for all personnel concerning assistive technology issues
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| How do we provide ADA opportunities on our campuses? |
- Students
- Faculty
- New Assistive technology group
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- Explore additional funding avenues or university-wide initiatives for applying for grants
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- By having model IDEA stations on each campus we could provide equipment to those students who choose to not identify themselves as needing assistive technologies.
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| Help for faculty to facilitate assistive technology adaptation. |
- Faculty
- Assistive technology personnel
- IT Personnel
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- Provide a web page geared toward addressing faculty concerns/issues (androgogy, technology examples, teacher "need-to-knows" about using the technology in the classroom - example: do teachers need to slow down lecture pace for student using puff stick)
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| Specialized Equipment |
- IT personnel
- Assistive technology personnel
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- System-wide checkout (pool) for specialized equipment
- Collaborative purchasing
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