Are you suffering from "future shock" trying to keep up with the technology
designed to mainstream students with disabilities into school and college?
This workshop will let you:

 earn 3 continuing education units from your keyboard

 keep current on access technologies to information for persons with
disabilities?

 keep current on the Department of Education's expectations for school
support for assistive technology

 learn what colleges are doing in providing access to information
technology for their disabled students

learn about the most recent decisions of the Office of Civil rights on
schools legal obligations for students with disabilities

These topics are covered in the 4-week online workshop starting June 1
presented by EASI (Equal Access to Software and Information), a non-profit part
of the Teaching, Learning and Technology Group and an affiliate of the American
Association for Higher education. Other topics covered include:

how to learn about creating multimedia that does not create barriers for
disabled students

how to learn to create tactile graphics and either braille or large print texts
for visually impairedstudents

how to learn about computer programs that enhance learning for students with
learning disabilities

What are the input and output barriers in computers for disabled persons and
what are the hardware and software solutions

how to use adaptive computers to accomplish tasks independently that,
otherwise, would require personal assistance

This June 1, 4-week online workshop mainly uses email for its delivery to your
desktop. It provides some material on the web, and it will provide you wwith
experience so that you can locate the most recent information on these topics
on the web and therefore remain up-to-date in the rapid changing computer
world. Those of us who thought we kept current, find we have to run faster
every year. Let us help you get up to speed without your having to run so fast.

The workshop gives you daily contact with experienced instructors who have
taught this workshop to people in more than 30 countries. The workshop includes
3 videos and the book, Information Access and Adaptive Technology by Coombs and
Cunningham published in 1997 by Oryx Press.

For information on fees, registration and a syllabus, point your browser to
http://www.rit.edu/~easi and select the first link on workshops.

Norman Coombs, Ph.D. [log in to unmask]