Expanding the QIAT Environments Beyond IDEA: An Adventure in WIKI World

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Expanding the QIAT Environments Beyond IDEA An
Adventure in WIKI World

• Bryan Ayres Technology and Curriculum Access
  Center, Easter Seals Arkansas
• Russ Holland - Adirondack AccessAbility, Inc.
• Gayl Bowser, Assistive Technology Collaborations
• Janet Peters, Great Lakes ADA Center, DBTAC
• And all of the current and future wiki editors
  and partners interested in expanding the QIAT
  discussions

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Continuing the Conversation

• QIAT Indicators for Assistive Technology in Post
  Secondary Environments

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QIAT Grows Up

• What happens when we leave public education and
  IDEA behind?
• The world of work?
• Further education?
• Other program options?
• What are the options in these environments for
  appropriate access to assistive technology tools
  and services?

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QIAT Grows Up?

• Do these options work?
• Why?
• Why not?
• Is there Quality?
• How might they be improved?
• How might the QIAT experience to date be applied
  in support of these growing up environments?

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Quality Indicators for Living Through Technology
(QILTT) Defining Excellence in
Post-School Environments Joy Zabala and Russ
Holland CSUN Preconference March 20, 2006
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QIAT Background

• Purpose and Rationale
• Demonstration of Need
• Intended beneficiaries

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QIAT is.

• An approach to program improvement
• Tool to assure quality of services
• Tool to increase consistency of services
• Tool to support implementation IDEA and other
  legal mandates

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Purpose of QIAT

• Tool to guide in the improvement of AT services
  in order to improve student results
• NOT competencies for service providers, but
  require the preparation and availability of
  competent service providers

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Need for Guidelines

• AT has been in IDEA for more than a decade
• Issues are complex
• Vast numbers of people involved for the first
  time
• IEP teams are often unprepared
• Training and support are in short supply to meet
  the need

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Beneficiaries of QIAT

• school districts - quality AT services
• service providers - continuous improvement
• consumers - integrated AT services
• universities - competent service providers
• policy-makers - judicious policy

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Where QIAT Is

• Quality Indicators , Intent Statements and Common
  Errors for Eight Areas
• QIAT Implementation Matrix
• Listserv, Presentations and Publication
• Research-validated content
• Research-based revisions

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Quality IndicatorsEight Areas

• Administrative Support
• Consideration
• Assessment
• IEP Development
• Implementation
• Evaluation of Effectiveness
• Transition
• Professional Development and Training

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Assumptions for
ALL QIAT Areas

• Legally correct
• Involve on-going collaborative work
• No conflict with codes of ethics
• Applicable regardless of the model of service
  delivery
• Applicable to other service plans

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QIAT Matrix

• Innovation Configuration Matrix (ICM) based on
  the work of Hall Hord
• Provides a guideline for self-assessment of
  perceived current status of assistive technology
  service delivery
• Guides in planning for continuous improvement of
  assistive technology services

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Caveats about the QIAT Matrix

• Descriptive steps are meant to provide direction
  for collaborative self-evaluation and may not be
  appropriate, as written, for all environments
• If necessary, revise the descriptive steps to
  work more effectively in your environments

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Quality AT Services in Post School Environments
There are many ways to do it right!
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What area is most closely aligned to your
interests and/or responsibilities?
EDUCATION
LIVING!!!
EMPLOYMENT

• Starting Questions

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What Supports are Available?
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Who Benefits?
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Who Participates?
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Key Players

• Consumers/Individuals with Disabilities
• Family members
• Professional service providers
• Personal care providers
• Employers
• Volunteers
• Educators

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Quality Indicators for Consideration of Assistive
Technology Needs

• Specific look at each area

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QIs for Consideration of AT Need

• Considered for all students with disabilities
• Collaborative decision making process
• Collective knowledge and skills
• Based on IEP goals, access to curricular and
  extracurricular activities, and progress in the
  general education curriculum
• Gathers and analyzes data
• Explores a range of AT
• Results documented in IEP

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• Name __________________ Organization
  _________________________
• New Environment__________________________________
  ____________
• Area______________________________ QI IS
  ___________________
• Suggested Edits

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Quality Indicators for Assessment of Assistive
Technology Needs
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QIs for Assessment

• Procedures
• Team with collective knowledge and skills needed
• Customary environments
• Reasonable time lines
• Recommendations based on data
• Documented recommendations
• Reassessed

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• Name __________________ Organization
  _________________
• New Environment__________________________________
  ___
• Area_____________________ QI IS
  ___________________
• Suggested Edits

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• Consideration 1
• Assistive technology devices and services are
  considered for all students with disabilities
  regardless of type or severity of disability.
• Intent Consideration of assistive technology
  need is required by IDEA 97 and is based on the
  unique educational needs of the student. Students
  are not excluded from consideration of AT for any
  reason. (e.g. type of disability, age,
  administrative concerns, etc.)

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Continuing the Conversation

• 2007 QIAT Summit, Houston, TX
• Janet Peters, Bryan Ayres, Gayl Bowser, Joy
  Zabala
• Current project
• To facilitate the conversation
• ATIA--2008
• CSUN--2008
• Online--ongoing
• QIAT Summit, Minneapolis, Russ Holland, Janet
  Peters, Bryan Ayres and QIAT Consortium

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Discussion

• Tools for the Project
• Wiki Janet Peters served as lead developer in
  December 2007 through March 2008
• Expectations for Outcome
• Open source beginning development of quality
  indicators for assistive technology access in
  post-secondary environments

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QIAT WIKI for Post Secondary Education
Environments
www.qiatgrowsup.pbwiki.com Invite Key qiat
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Future Directions?

• More contributions from stakeholders
• Research
• Expansion into other arenas and environments?
• Vocational Rehabilitation
• Independent Living
• Employment

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Future Directions?

• More contributions from stakeholders
• Research
• Expansion into other arenas and environments?
• Vocational Rehabilitation
• Independent Living
• Employment

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Thanks for participating!

• Please review and join the wiki!
• A special thanks to Robin Brown, Director of the
  Great Lakes ADA Center, DBTAC and Wendy
  Wilkinson, Director of the SW ADA Center, DBTAC
  for their support of this project.