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Inclusive Learning Technologies® Conference
2010 Program


Download the 2010 Conference Preliminary Program

The exciting Inclusive Learning Technologies Conference 2010 Preliminary Program is now complete! The Conference Committee has been working hard with our four Keynote Presenters to ensure an innovative and motivating spread of presentations and workshops. We also had a difficult time selecting from the MANY excellent papers received via the Call for Papers which closed on 30th September 2009. But it has certainly been worth all of this effort to see the exciting program which has emerged as a result! The 2010 conference will again focus on strategies for successfully using "inclusive learning technologies" to advance independent achievement for ALL - whatever form that achievement might take.

PRE-Conference Workshops - Tuesday 25th May 2010
TimeRoom ARoom BRoom CRoom DHands-on Windows
Laptop Lab
Hands-on Apple/Mac
Laptop Lab
Adobe Room
9.00am
to 4.00pm

Certified Trainer Texthelp Read&Write GOLD Version 9 Workshop

Jackie Prentice and Angeline King

Make and Take: Priory Woods Style!

Ian Bean


More places available. Now B.Y.O. laptop!

Build Your Own Accessible Teaching and Learning Toolkit

E.A. Draffan

Write Now: Facilitating Writing Development for Students with Significant Disabilities

Caroline Musselwhite and Gretchen Hanser

Literacy with Clicker and Beyond: Writing Across All Ages

Eleri Hanley

Using the iPhone and Mac as Assistive Technology

David Niemeijer, Samuel Sennott and Jeanette Davies

Language Competence: Don't Settle for a Piece of the Pie

Kristin Whitfield and Jane Farrall

 
DAY ONE - Wednesday 26th May 2010
TimeRoom ARoom BRoom CRoom DHands-on Windows
Laptop Lab
Hands-on Apple/Mac
Laptop Lab
Adobe Room
8:30am to 9:00amConference Opening Session
9:00am to 10:30am

Plenary Session: Poetry Power! Using Poetry to JumpStart Language and Literacy

Caroline Musselwhite and Gretchen Hanser

10:30am to 11:00amMorning Tea
11:00am to 11:45am

Moving Students Beyond Cause & Effect

Ian Bean

Interactive Phonemic Awareness: Today is NOT Brought to You By the Short Vowel "O"

Caroline Musselwhite

Read&Write GOLD: An Implementation Guide to Your Favourite Literacy Support Software

Angeline King

Endeavor Desktop Environment: Simplify and Personalise Access to the Web and Beyond!

Joan Cunningham

Symbol Resources For Everyone with Communicate: SymWriter and Communicate:In Print 2

Cate Detheridge and Katie Lyon

Accessibility Out of the Box

David Woodbridge

Tobii Talks, Tobii Texts, Tobii Tweets: Using Tobii Communicator

Charlene Cullen, Bas Tijdhof and David Harraway

11:45am to 12:30pm

Adobe Education Leader

Adobe Presenter

The Nintendo Wii: Beyond the Games

Jeff Souter

MyTobii Eye Gaze as a Visual Assessment Tool to Guide AAC Design

Annabelle Tilbrook

12:30pm to 1:30pmLunch
1:30pm to 2:15pm

Shared Reading: It's All About the Interaction!

Gretchen Hanser

Communication Circles: With A Little Help From My Friends

Caroline Musselwhite

Inclusive Technology in the Classroom: Making Differentiated Activities

Judy Hunter-Dickson and Jane Whitten

Mind Mapping: How Do We Make Appropriate Choices?

E.A. Draffan

In Touch With Tobii: Hands-On With Tobii Communicator 4

Bas Tijdhof and Charlene Cullen

Switch Access 101: Mac OS X

Randy Marsden

Comments from the Field: A Two Way Assistive Technology Partnership at Glenroy Specialist School

Nick Bradbury and Polly Morgan

2:15pm to 3:00pm

Interactive Whiteboards OR Inactive White Elephants?

Julie King

Childhood Apraxia of Speech and High Technology

Angela Vass

3:00pm to 3:30pmAfternoon Tea
3:30pm to 4:15pm

Write from the Start: Getting Writing on the Radar for Students with the Most Significant Disabilities

Gretchen Hanser

The Power of Connectivity for Fun and Learning with Easy-Tech Assistive Technology

Adam Wing

Digital Pens and Notetakers to Support Learning

Jeff Souter

Spell Checking: Are Online Spell Checkers Doing a Good Job?

E.A. Draffan

Get Creative With SwitchIt! Maker 2

Ian Bean

Literacy Support Software for the Mac: Apple for the Teacher!

Greg O'Connor and Anita Raftery

Express Yourself

Dan Hanson

4:15pm to 5:00pm

Textlicious: Quantum Leaps Ahead in Text Input Technology

Randy Marsden

WriteOnline: A Case Study

Eleri Hanley

Xpress Yourself: Communication Wherever You Go

Kristin Whitfield

5:00pm to 7:00pmTRADE DISPLAY OPENING and PRIZE DRAW
 
DAY TWO - Thursday 27th May 2010
TimeRoom ARoom BRoom CRoom DHands-on Windows
Laptop Lab
Hands-on Apple/Mac
Laptop Lab
Adobe Room
9:00am to 10:30am

Plenary Session: e-Inclusion: Learning Difficulties and Digital Technologies

Chris Abbott

10:30am to 11:00amMorning Tea
11:00am to 11:45am

Guided Reading: The Before / During / After Approach!

Caroline Musselwhite and Gretchen Hanser

Assistive Technologies, Provision, Training and Support in Further and Higher Education in the UK

E.A. Draffan

Making Maths Fun with Numbershark

Cheryl Dobbs

Transitioning: Tackling Mainstream Computing like a Rugby Forward (With a Switch)!

Randy Marsden

Building a Foundation of Positive Behaviour with the Help of Boardmaker

Kristin Whitfield

Getting Started With Proloquo2Go

Samuel Sennott and David Niemeijer

Adobe Session

Adobe Presenter

11:45am to 12:30pm

Portable Applications: Handy Resources To Go!

Gerry Kennedy and Jim Sprialis

Why Mount? Fixing and Positioning Speech Generating Devices for Access

David Harraway and Trina Phuah

Adobe Session

Adobe Presenter

12:30pm to 1:30pmLunch
1:30pm to 3:00pm

Plenary Session: Unlocking Potential: Keys to an Inclusive Classroom

Ian Bean

3:00pm to 3:30pmAfternoon Tea
3:30pm to 4:15pm

Alternative Ways of Supporting Print Impaired Students

E.A. Draffan and Ian Bean

Minimising the Mystery of Writing: Shared Writing with Students with Significant Disabilities

Gretchen Hanser and Caroline Musselwhite

Techno-Kids: An Assistive Technology Playgroup

John Pashen and Vicki Robinson

Walk the Talk With Dragon

Karl Francois

Texthelp Read&Write GOLD Version 9: Literacy Support in Any Windows Application

Jackie Prentice and Angeline King

What's APPropriate: Using iTunes to Find Gems for Your Students in the App Store

Jane Farrall and Greg O'Connor

Adobe Session

Adobe Presenter

4:15pm to 5:00pm

Juggling It All: Parallel Learning to Say What I Want to Say

Gayle Porter and Fiona Beauchamp

Flying Solo: Discovering SOLO Literacy Suite 6

Kevin Johnston

Hands on with the iPhone 3GS/iPod Touch (3rd generation)

David Woodbridge

Adobe Session

Adobe Presenter

7:00pm to 11:00pmCONFERENCE DINNER
 
DAY THREE - Friday 28th May 2010
TimeRoom ARoom BRoom CRoom DHands-on Windows
Laptop Lab
Hands-on Apple/Mac
Laptop Lab
Adobe Room
9:00am to 10:30am

Plenary Session: Students Personalising Their E-Learning

E.A. Draffan

10:30am to 11:00amMorning Tea
11:00am to 11:45am

Who's Really Talking? Social Scripts for AAC Users

Caroline Musselwhite

Getting in Touch: Using Interactive Whiteboards With Students With Disabilities

Ian Bean

A Transdisciplinary Approach to Accessing Technology

Fiona Beauchamp and Claire Cotter

Portability for the 21st Century Struggling Reader: Providing Access To All

Brenda McBride

Walk the Talk with Dragon in Schools

Greg O'Connor and Anita Raftery

Access to Mac OS X for People with Physical Disabilities

David Niemeijer, Samuel Sennott and Jeanette Davies

Getting Published in AT

Chris Abbott

11:45am to 12:30pm

Where To Start and How To Finish AT in the Classroom

Petra Karlsson

Mobile Technology in Education

Neil Milliken

Opening Windows: Accessibility and Windows 7

Greg O'Connor and Anita Raftery

Reading Comprehension and Assistive Technology

Ingrid Alderton and Jim Sprialis

12:30pm to 1:30pmLunch
1.30pm to 2.15pm

Phonics 101

Gretchen Hanser

Learning to Speak: Partner Assisted Scanning Using PODD

Gayle Porter

Curriculum Companions: Discover How Mayer-Johnson Software Can Enrich Every Students' Learning Experience

Kristin Whitfield

Symbols Promoting Independence: Accessing Public Spaces and Providing a Voice

Chris Abbott and Cate Detheridge

ChooseIt! Maker: Your Choice!

Ian Bean

iPodability

Greg Alchin

MS Word: Features We Often Miss

Jan Polkinghorne and Sandy Russo

2.15pm to 3.00pm

A Writer, a Pencil, a Reason and a Teacher

Samuel Sennott

Eye Can Talk to You

Helen Tainsh, Fiona Beauchamp and Jane Farrall

Using Clicker in Your Classroom for Teaching and Learning Across the Curriculum

Eleri Hanley

Nuance Session

Derek Austin

3.00pm to 3.45pm

Where-O-Where are the Books for Me? Oh, Where-O-Where Can They Be?

Caroline Musselwhite and Gretchen Hanser

Teachable Moments: Practical Applications for Developing Switch Access

Justin Ware

Gadgets and Computers: On The Move!

E.A. Draffan

Including the Mainstream: Symbols in the Classroom

Cate Detheridge

Digital Imaging in Special Education

Brian Baynham

Audio books on iPods

Jeanette Davies

Free and Open Source Software

Hillary Epton

3.45pm to 4.15pmAfternoon Tea
4:15pm to 5:00pmConference Closing Session and Prize Draw!