The AFB eLearning Center is pleased to offer the second of an ongoing series of webinars that focus on the use of iPads in the classroom for students with visual and other disabilities.
The webinar series is presented by Dr. Betsy Flener, who has over 25 years of experience as a teacher and consultant including serving as a regional consultant for the Kentucky School for the Blind. She is currently an assistive technology consultant for the Green River Regional Educational Cooperative.
This second webinar, titled The iPad and Communication for Students with Visual and Multiple Disabilities, provides information to those working to develop systems of communication for students with cortical visual impairment, cerebral palsy, autism, and deafblindness. Assessments and iPad accessory use for students with low vision are also described.
The first webinar in the series, Creating Tactile Overlays for the iPad and Tablet Devices, is also available in the AFB bookstore. In this presentation, Dr. Flener provides a rationale for making tactile overlays for tablets and describes the elements of an inexpensive "toolkit" for making tactile overlays. The apps to be used with overlays and various iPad accessories are also described.
A third webinar, Reinforcing Braille Literacy Using the iPad, is being planned for September.
All webinars in the series have been approved for continuing education credit by ACVREP.
For more information about these and other upcoming eLearning webinars, visit elearn.afb.org.
Webinar keyboard photo courtesy of Shutterstock.
