Date: 12/04/2024 Time: 4:00-5:00 Location: internet Type: Webinar
Description
The research says thousands of repetitions with variation (moderate differences) are critical to learning any new motor task highlighted by Linda Burkhart’s ‘Two Switches for Success’. How is it possible to make this happen on a daily basis in a busy classroom? In this session, we’ll review types of switches, their functionalities, and optimal placement. You will learn how to use 4 switch activities, which are often in many schools’ AT library. Activities to use the 4 tools to create 100’s of opportunities will be shared. We’ll then analyze typical school day routines, equipping you with hundreds of meaningful activities to seamlessly integrate throughout your students’ daily schedules. Through collaborative group work, you’ll design personalized switch plans tailored to individual students. Using UDL strategies you will develop interdisciplinary lesson plans that incorporate alternative access. You will leave with activities ready for immediate implementation, empowering your students to develop access skills that allow for interdependence in all educational, community, and home settings.
Learning Objectives
1. Participants will be able to describe three types of switches and three switch placement sites to set students up for success in all school settings.
2. Participants will gain skills using a voice output switch, spinner, pouring tool, and Powerlink to implement four different engaging activities to foster active participation in learning within inclusive settings.
3. Participants will work collaboratively to create a school day switch plan to meet the needs of a student to ensure authentic participation across diverse learning experiences.
4. Learners will be able to apply skills learned in this session to create a motivating, collaborative lesson plan, incorporating at least two different switch activities that allow for access in the general education setting.
Session 1: October 2, 2024 The A, B, C’s and 1, 2, 3’s of Switch Access
Session 2: November 13, 2024 Four Tools + Imagination = Endless Opportunities
Session 3: 12/4/24 It Takes a Village: Collaborative Lesson Plans
Presenters
Heidi G. Brislin, MS-OTR/L
Heidi G. Brislin, MS-OTR/L is an Occupational Therapist and Assistive Technology Specialist for the Edmonds School District and the Olympic Education Service District 114 in Washington. She owns a private practice, Heidi Brislin OT Consulting in Kingston, WA, where she provides professional development sessions, as well as family and team consultations and training. Heidi has extensive experience in school-based practice and outpatient adult rehab settings. She is a graduate of Boston University and the University of Washington. She is passionate about helping teams create authentic learning opportunities for all children, improving literacy skills, switch access, power mobility, and helping children become autonomous communicators.
Contact
Email Sue Wright at the SETC office
Zoom Link
Clock hours for this webinar and others in this series are available from ESD105 for a small fee. The following Professional Development Enroller link provides more information about clock hours: https://www.pdenroller.org/cwu/catalog/event/174328