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WELCOME TO
SPECIAL EDUCATION ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY
TEAM
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The Special Education Assistive Technology (SPED
AT) Team for the Tacoma Public Schools was created in 2000
as a multi-discliplinary team. For the 2011-12
school year, the SPED AT Team has been expanded to
include two program co-directors, an Occupational
Therapist (OT), an Occupational Therapy Assistant (COTA),
a Speech Language Pathologist (SLP), a Speech Language
Pathology Assistant (SLPA), a Psychologist, three special education
Teachers, a Vision Specialist, and a representative from the
District Technology Team (BERT). We provide resources
and services to all special education students needing
assistive technology to meet their IEP goals. We
maintain a Resource/Lending Library to provide students and
staff with a wide variety of technology and computer software
in the areas of commmunication, computer access, reading and
math. We also provide training for
students, staff and parents and referral to outside agencies
or services, as the need arises.
OUR
MISSION IS:
The mission of
the SPED AT Team is to promote lifelong access and learning
opportunities for students with disabilities to enable them to be
participating members of their communities through education,
training, support and
advocacy.
OUR VISION
IS:
Our vision is to provide students with
disabilities access to appropriate learning tools and training to
enable them to be successful in meeting their IEP goals, become
successful communicators and life-long learners.
OUR GOALS
ARE:
♦ to
provide effective collaboration with staff, parent(s), and
other agencies;
♦ to provide staff,
students, and parents with current information and resources on
available assistive
technology;
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to provide students with appropriate learning tools such as
adaptive equipment and software to enable them to be academically
successful;
♦
to facilitate adequate training for staff, students, parents
and family members to insure that the learning tools are
useful to the student;
♦ to develop
an Assistive Technology Training Center to provide on-going
training to staff, students, parents and family members;
and
♦ to
increase public awareness of current assistive technology and how
it benefits those who need
it.
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