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Registration Closed.
Last Date to Register: 5/1/2012 12:01 AM
Last Date to Cancel: 5/1/2012 12:01 AM
Agency: CESA 3
Agency Contact: Jim Nelson
Agency Assistant: Kate Hennessy 608-822-2149
Location: CESA 3
1300 Industrial Drive
Fennimore, WI 53809
Facility: Conference Room A
Date/Time:
5/3/2012 09:00 AM - 03:00 PM Check-In 8:30 a.m.
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Reading Technologies: Supporting the Struggling Reader

CESA #3 - Conference Room A
Thursday, May 3, 2012
9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Cost: $150.00/person

Presenter: Cindy Nankee, OTR

This workshop will provide you with the tools you need to help promote success and confidence in our struggling readers. Students who have accommodations for more time to complete assignments and tests, reduced assignments, or have an aid reading to them, students who may be able to read but have physical access issues, and students who have decoding and comprehension problems. These students meet the definition of Print Disabled. This workshop will help you understand your responsibility, as stated in IDEA 2004, to provide Accessible Instructional Materials to your students. This workshop will teach how to access services and materials in Wisconsin. This workshop will demonstrate a multitude of low, mid and high tech tools to access instructional materials. Participants will have hands on experience with software, web resources and reading apps on the iPad. This workshop is committed to helping you help the struggling students gain access to reading.

Workshop objectives:

  • Participants will be able to define terms pertaining to IDEA 2004 legal mandates for Accessible Instructional Materials.
  • Participants will know the resources and procedures to follow to obtain accessible instructional materials for students.
  • Participants will preview through demonstration, a continuum of technology tools that will support struggling readers.
  • Participants will have a more in-depth study of select technology tools through hands-on experience with software and iPad apps for reading.

About the presenter: Cindy Nankee is a graduate of UW Milwaukee with a BS in Occupational Therapy. She has been a practicing Occupational Therapist for 20 years, the past 16 years with CESA #3 as an itinerant school based therapist. She has worked with children with physical and learning disabilities, autism, and severe/profound multiple disabilities, early childhood through grade 12. Previous experience includes hospital, home health, nursing home, and adult sheltered work setting. Cindy began the Cesa 3 Assistive Technology position in 2001 and is continuing part time direct therapy. Cindy’s special interests are the OT based technologies from low tech writing techniques to high tech voice recognition.

 

Teacher Standards
WES1The teacher understands the central concepts, tools of inquiry, and structures of the disciplines he or she teaches and can create learning experiences that make these aspects of subject matter meaningful for pupils.
WES2The teacher understands how children with broad ranges of ability learn and provides instruction that supports their intellectual, social, and personal development.
WES3The teacher understands how pupils differ in their approaches to learning and the barriers that impede learning and can adapt instruction to meet the diverse needs of pupils, including those with disabilities and exceptionalities.
WES4The teacher understands and uses a variety of instructional strategies, including the use of technology to encourage children’s development of critical thinking, problem solving, and performance skills.
WES6The teacher uses effective verbal and nonverbal communication techniques as well as instructional media and technology to foster active inquiry, collaboration, and supportive interaction in the classroom.
WES9The teacher is a reflective practitioner who continually evaluates the effect of his or her choices and actions on pupils, parents, professionals in the learning community and others and who actively seeks out opportunities to grow professionally.
WES10The teacher fosters relationships with school colleagues, parents, and agencies in the larger community to support pupil learning and well being and who acts with integrity, fairness and in an ethical manner.
Special Education
Graduation Ratespercent comparison of youth with and without IEP's graduating with a regular diploma
Dropout Ratespercent comparison of youth with and without IEP's dropping out of high school
Participation and Performance on statewide assess.for students with disabilities
Suspension/Expulsion Ratesdiscrepancy between the rate of students with disabilities being suspended or expelled from school more than 10 days
Participant Cancellation Policy: You must contact CESA #3 at least one week prior to the scheduled event to cancel and receive a full refund of your registration fee. Cancellations not received at least one week prior to the registered event will be charged the full registration fee. CESA #3 reserves the right to cancel any workshop due to insufficient enrollment. Participants will be notified by e-mail or phone if a workshop is cancelled. If a participant is a 'no show' the school will be billed for the registration fee, or loss of the 'free' attendance slot. Accommodations: If you need an accommodation to participate including interpreter services (sign language or other spoken language) please email the workshop contact to set up these services. A two-week notice is appreciated. CESA #3 is handicapped accessible.