Latest Trends in Transition and Workplace Accessibility for 2024

Explore the new developments and solutions in transition and workplace accessibility for 2024, including discussions on emerging trends, scenarios featuring assistive technology options, current issues, and sessions on enhancing employability skills. The ATIA 2024 Conference features expert speakers sharing valuable insights and tools for empowering individuals with cognitive functioning differences and improving access to modern communities through assistive technology.

• Transition
• Workplace Accessibility
• ATIA 2024 Conference
• Assistive Technology
• Employability Skills

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2. Transition and Workplace Accessibility: What s New in 2024? TWA-08 Teresa Goddard, JAN Dr. Luis Perez, CAST

3. Speaker Disclosure Teresa Goddard has financial and non-financial relationships to disclose. [employment salary & ATIA strand advisor] Dr. Luis Perez has financial relationships to disclose. [employment salary & ATIA strand advisor] ATIA 2024 Conference | 3

4. Learning Objectives Discuss one or more trends highlighted in sessions related to transition and workplace accessibility. Describe one or more scenarios that feature transition and workplace accessibility AT options. Discuss three current issues in involving transition and workplace accessibility. ATIA 2024 Conference | 4

5. Session Evaluation and CEUs Session Feedback Evaluation Your Feedback is very important to us. Please be sure to complete session evaluations through the ATIA mobile app. CEUs ATIA 2024 education sessions are reviewed for ACVREP, AOTA, ASHA, CRC and IACET CE eligibility. Not all sessions are approved for each specialty CEU. Please see each session description for CEU availability. Full information: atia.org/atia-2024-orlando-ceus ATIA 2024 Conference | 5

6. eMpower the Voice and Choice for people with cognitive functioning differences TWA-15 Mrs. Kiuanta Canteen, EYETECH DIGITAL SYSTEMS LLC Dr. Maria McWhirt, MPower Me Cognitive access to modern communities is an emerging practice area for professionals across all disciplines. A collaboration between EyeTech Digital Systems and MPower Me offers customization tools to provide cognitive access- presenting understandable information, providing access to self- expression methods, and allowing users to participate fully in their services from acute care to employment. ATIA 2024 Conference | 6

7. Enhancing Employability Skills with Assistive Technology TWA-03 Sarah Heldmann, Wood County Board of Developmental Disabilities Carly Dauch, Wood County Board of Developmental Disabilities Mrs. Sarra Burnham, Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities The U.S. Department of Education has developed an Employability Skills Framework that identifies the following necessary skills: Effective Relationships (interpersonal skills and personal qualities), Workplace Skills (technology use, systems thinking, communication skills, information use, resource management), and Applied Knowledge (critical thinking skills, applied academic skills). This session will utilize the Employability Skills Framework and pair each section with assistive technology solutions. There will be opportunities for hands-on demonstration and trialing of a variety of assistive technology solutions. ATIA 2024 Conference | 7

8. Strengthening the Transition to Independence with Innovative Digital Resources TWA-06 Mrs. Pamela Cunningham, Wayne RESA Mrs. Amber Wade, Wayne RESA Do you have a learner who needs to strengthen their independent living skills? Are you interested in incorporating engaging technology into your instruction? Do you want specially designed resources to safely practice daily living activities? If you answered, yes", come learn about MITTIN MIchigan Transition To INdependence. Designed to support special education transition-related instruction, these free innovative digital & curricular resources: provide additional learning opportunities for students in need of more instructional time; create instructional scaffolding by connecting students to community experiences virtually; and foster collaboration with families by providing access to modules and resources at home and the classroom. ATIA 2024 Conference | 8

9. Addressing the Workforce Shortage through Tech TWA-10 Mrs. Sarra Burnham, Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities Technology First & the DSP Workforce Crisis: Ohio s Future Paved by Technology will be presented including data and benchmarks/indicators of progress. Additional statewide efforts will be discussed including how this works links to Ohio s Workforce Taskforce and Technology First. ATIA 2024 Conference | 9

10. On the Fly Accommodations TWA-01 Brian Norton, Easter Seals Crossroads Mr. Joshua Anderson, Easter Seals Crossroads What is an accommodation: Where do I start? Will it make a difference? Who can help? In this session you will showcase your creative, out-of-the-box thinking and learn important ingredients and concepts for implementing successful solutions in your workplace or others. ATIA 2024 Conference | 10

11. Accommodating Educational Professionals: Meeting Workplace Needs with AT TWA-05 Lisa Mathess, Job Accommodation Network Teresa Goddard, Job Accommodation Network (JAN) Julie Davis, Job Accommodation Network Educational professionals must perform a variety of tasks with a high level of skills. In order to perform effectively, teachers with disabilities may require accommodations tailored to both their needs and the requirements of the educational setting. Combining assistive technology-based approaches with policy and schedule-based accommodations can lead to successful outcomes, by avoiding the need for reassignment and preventing unnecessary retirements and career changes. In this presentation we will present data on the costs and benefits of workplace accommodation as well as scenarios from case data in which educators with disabilities were effectively accommodated via various modalities. ATIA 2024 Conference | 11

12. Getting Serious About Transition and Self- Determination with Cognitopia TWA-14 Dr. Tom Keating, Cognitopia Kelly Fonner, Fonner Consulting Ms. Beth Poss, Beth Poss This session introduces attendees to the Cognitopia Platform for Self-Determination, including its incorporation of universal design and web accessibility principles and the ways in which it fosters independence while enhancing the efforts of teachers, parents, and other team members. This overview is followed by presentation and discussion of three case studies illustrating the impact of platform use on the lives of transition students and adults with autism and intellectual disabilities and those who support them. We will also discuss the implications of these tools for aging users who may benefit from better supports for self-management, executive functioning, and team coordination. ATIA 2024 Conference | 12

13. Advocating and Determined: How to Increase Self-awareness and Autonomy for Young Adults TWA-13 Ms. Sayard Bass, SWCCCASE As students prepare to leave the K-12 environment many things change. They are ready for work, dorms, parties, whatever may come their way. Freedom. For our students who utilize assistive technology, and those with IEPs and 504s there is an additional freedom, setting your own goals. When assistive technology is involved there are many ways we can integrate teaching students to take control in the areas of goal setting and contributing to their own plans and future. Beyond the tool there is much we can influence to ensure student success as they graduate and move into a future they have made their goal. We have the evidence that increased knowledge of assistive technology makes students more successful in post-secondary environments. We have the ability to implement and capacity to build robust assistive technology consideration. In learning about transition we create a bridge where the IEP team (student, parents, staff) can be involved in implementing assistive technology and using these tools to set goals for post secondary life. Transition and Assistive technology are very intertwined for students in this life changing period. Come become more informed to strengthen your practice to empower your students and teams. ATIA 2024 Conference | 13

14. Back on Track with the Interactive Process: When Accommodations Go Off the Rails TWA-02 Teresa Goddard, Job Accommodation Network (JAN) Lisa Mathess, Job Accommodation Network This training offers an in depth look at applying JAN s six-step interactive process to resolve perplexing accommodation scenarios. Participants will discuss strategies for overcoming various accommodation challenges including: training supervisors on how to appropriately recognize and respond to both routine and atypical accommodation requests; avoiding common missteps when gathering medical documentation; addressing policy conflicts; proposing alternate accommodation ideas; implementing interim and trial accommodations; addressing effectiveness; transition planning; and integrating assistive technologies into existing workflows. Using real life accommodation examples drawn from JAN case data, presenters will illustrate practical approaches for balancing the needs of both employers and workers with disabilities. ATIA 2024 Conference | 14

15. Assistive Technologies to help Organization & Productivity TWA-12 Mr. Kevin Grogg, Ernst & Young Since the start of the pandemic, the greatest percentage increase in assistive technology (AT) cases within EY has involved difficulties with focus, organization, priorities, and time management. Before March 2020, the AT team averaged one call per week in these areas. Currently, it s closer to one case per day. This presentation will demonstrate the individualized solutions produced through brainstorming sessions between the AT team at EY and customers. ATIA 2024 Conference | 15

16. Combining DIY and Purchased AT for Possible Workplace Solutions TWA-09 Mrs. Julie Dutchess, North Carolina Assistive Technology Program (NCATP) The presentation focuses on combining DIY and low to high tech AT for possible workplace solutions in various settings. Multiple DIY materials will be discussed as well as several AT items used to assist individuals of various abilities (sensory, cognitive, physical, mental health). The presenter will utilize videos, images, case studies and physical AT items to highlight ways to implement AT in the workplace throughout the presentation. ATIA 2024 Conference | 16

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