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Dialogue Events
Tags:Assistive Technology, Collaboration, PolicySee the full Moving Toward Solutions: Assistive and Learning Technology for All Students report reflecting these ideas.
“This is the first time I’ve participated in a meeting of this kind and I think it’s just been wonderful. I want to applaud all the work [NCTI has] done. This has been a huge benefit for me and I’ve really gotten a lot out of participating…”
John Yeh, Viable Technologies
What
NCTI Dialogue Events were forums held in 2004-2005 for experts to discuss timely topics of interest to the field, share information, and network with potential partners. At each event, invited NCTI experts provide their perspectives on provocative questions about Assistive Technology (AT)-relevant issues such as:
- Future of assistive and innovative technologies
- AT market realities
- Collaboration efforts
- Funding cycles
What results is a fascinating range of insights which paint a clearer picture of the opportunities and challenges in the AT fields of technology research, development, and transfer. NCTI has been building upon the information and insights captured in these events to develop materials and continue to make connections. The findings from these lively discussions are presented in the NCTI report, Moving Toward Solutions: Assistive and Learning Technology for All Students.
Learn why the AT field is at tipping point through NCTI’s synthesis of dialogues with key experts.
Why
Consider these insights:
On the long-range outcomes of Assistive Technology:
“I’ll believe we’ve made it when I see the employment levels for adults with disabilities move in the right direction.” Leah Vickery, ATACP Trainer, Center on Disabilities, C-SUN
On cycles of research and funding and product development:
“The product development cycles for us are twelve months to eighteen months. Software can be as short as six months…Research projects are just too long-term for product development cycles…” Joe Barrus, AlphaSmart, Inc.
On the importance of accessibility awareness:
“In a perfect world the technologies…would make it difficult to make an inaccessible website. It would automatically be accessible and you’d have to break it to make it inaccessible. Instead the opposite is true…There are two real issues: one is the technologies, the tools that people are using; the other goes back to the awareness issue, that people don’t really understand that [accessibility] is an issue.” Jared Smith, WebAIM
On the importance of Assistive Technology awareness:
“We’re working on awareness and…we’re still working on awareness. We will always be teaching awareness.” Sue Mistrett, State University of New York at Buffalo
NCTI is using these comments and insights to target our resources and services to the express needs and challenges of our stakeholders. NCTI is pleased to be hosting these dynamic, invigorating discussions and looks forward to sharing the lessons learned in them to advance the development and implementation of innovative technologies for students with disabilities. For more information about future Dialogue Events, contact ncti@air.org.
When and Who
The Dialogue Events held to date:
- Factors Affecting AT Innovation and Sales Closing the Gap,
October 21, 2004
Participants:- Joe Barrus, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, AlphaSmart, Inc.
- David Moffatt, President, Prentke-Romich
- Factors Affecting AT Adoption Closing the Gap,
October 22, 2004
Participants:- Gayl Bowser, Coordinator, Oregon Technology Access Program
- Joan Breslin Larson, Assistive Technology Specialist, Minnesota Department of Education
- Diana Carl, Director of Assistive Technology and Preview Services, Region IV Education Service Center, Texas
- Liz Lahm, Director, Wisconsin Assistive Technology Initiative
- Susan Mistrett, Project Director, Center for Assistive Technology, State University of New York at Buffalo
- Penny Reed, Consultant (former Director, Wisconsin Assistive Technology Initiative)
- Kathy Staugler, Assistive Technology Consultant, West Central Ohio SERRC
- Kristi Voelkerding, Assistive Technology Specialist, Massachusetts Easter Seals
- Paula Walser, Assistive Technology Consultant, Wisconsin Assistive Technology Initiative
- The Future of Accessibility
IDEAS 508 Showcase, November 3, 2004
Participants:- Jon Barrett, Solutions Specialist, Microsoft
- Paul Luther, Marketing Programs Manager, IBM Accessibility Center
- Matthew Kaplowitz, Director of Technology and Content Innovation, Bridge MultiMedia
- Bob Regan, Accessibility Product Manager, Macromedia
- Gail Gegg Rosenberg, iCommunicator Product Manager, 1450, Inc.
- Fraser Shein, President and Chief Executive Officer, Quillsoft
- Vesna Vojnic, Marketing Manager, Matias Corporation
- Universal Design in New Learning Technologies
AACE E Learn Conference, November 3, 2004
Participants:- Jared Smith, Project Coordinator, WebAIM
- Eberhard Goepel, Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal , Germany
- What’s Next for AT Innovation and Implementation?
NCTI Conference, November 17, 2004
Participants:- Lynne Anderson-Inman, Director, Advanced Technology in Education, University of Oregon
- Brian Bottge, Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Chuck Hitchcock, Chief Education Technology Officer, Center for Applied Special Technology
- Rick Osterhaus, President and Chief Executive Officer, AbleNet, Inc.
- Jon Simkovitz, Ergonomic and Access Technology Consultant, Solutions for Humans
- Cheryl Volkman, Chairman and Chief Development Officer, AbleNet, Inc.
- John Yeh, President, Viable Technologies
- The State of Assistive Technology: The Field, the Market, the Research
ATIA/TAM Conference, January 20, 2005
Participants:- Larry Goldberg, WBGH, Director of National Center for Accessible Media
- Gary Moulton, Microsoft, Project Manager of Accessibility and Disabilities Groups, Microsoft
- Chauncy Rucker, Publisher, The ConnSense Bulletin
- Leah Vickery, Conference Organizer, C-SUN
- Joy Zabala, Consortium Leader, QIAT
- Fostering Technology Innovation and Transfer Federal Agency Meeting at AIR,
January 24, 2005
Participants:- David Appler, D.C. Representative, Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer
- David Baquis, Accessibility Specialist, U.S. Access BoardMark Boroush, Technology Administrator, U.S. Department of Commerce
- Jennifer Croft, Civil Rights Specialist, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- Gil Devey, Division of Bioengineering and Environmental Systems, National Science Foundation
- Jane Hauser, Project Officer, Office of Special Education Programs, U.S. Department of Education
- Dave Malouf, Project Officer, Office of Special Education Programs, U.S. Department of Education
- Jamal Mazrui, Technology Specialist, Federal Communications Commission
- Factors Affecting Research: Needs, Designs, Funding CEC Conference,
April 8, 2005
Participants:- Debra Bauder, Professor, University of Louisville
- Karen Ender, Distance Education Program,University of Louisville
- Phil Parette, Director of SEAT, Illinois State University
- Joan H. Cunningham, Kurzweil Educational Systems, Inc.
- The Market for Research on Accessible Technology AERA Conference, April 13, 2005
Participants:- Susan Peters, Professor, Michigan State University, Disabilities Studies SIG Chair
- Joke Voogt, Professor, University of Twente, Netherlands
