Session 1 (9:30 am - 10:30 am)
Tapping into Technology
Presenter: Stasi Gormley, MS,OTR/L;CLVT
Room Location: Carolina
CEU: (1,3,4)*
Learn about the most up-to-date accessible features found on common personal and home electronic devices including phones, tablets, computers. Apply knowledge to your own device or to help someone else.
Making Documents Accessible
Presenters: Madalina Tudora and Lydia Hutto
Room Location: Lexington A&B
CEU: (1,3,4)*
Can everyone read your documents? Join us to learn essential steps in creating accessible documents. Explore planning for accessibility, editing existing documents and the Microsoft Accessibility Checker. This is a "Bring Your Own Device" session aimed at beginners to accessibility.
AT for Stroke Survivors
Presenter: Rachell Johnson, MCD, CCC-SLP
Room Location: Richland A
CEU: (1,2,3,4)*
Join this session to learn about assistive technology apps and devices to help stroke survivors with speech, communication, cognition and more!
Literacy Development: The Heads & Tails of Instruction
Presenter: Rebecca McKenzie Appling, MS CCC-SLP, EdD
Room Location: Richland B&C
CEU: (1,2,3,4)*
Effective literacy instruction is a two-sided coin. Join the discussion as we “flip the coin” and examine both sides of literacy instruction, curriculum and assistive technology supports.
Session 2 (11:30 am - 12:30 pm)
Assistive Technology for People with Hearing Loss
Presenter: David Bitters
Room Location: Carolina
CEU: (1,3,4)*
Learn how technology can assist deaf and hard of hearing people communicate with the world around them and keep in touch with family and friends, enjoy recreational activities while staying safe.
Fundamentals of Adaptive Outdoor Recreation
Presenter: Joe Moore J.D., L.L.M
Room Location: Lexington A&B
CEU: (1,3,4)*
Join this session for a journey into the fast-changing world of adaptive sports and learn about those who are transforming the ways that people with disabilities live, work and play.
Breaking Barriers - A Personal Journey
Presenter: Meghan Bayer, BA, EMT-B
Room Location: Richland A
CEU: (1,4)*
Learn from a nine-time ATA World Champion how to participate in adaptive martial arts and Taekwondo and hear her personal story of how she continues to break through barriers with her disability.
Empowering Early Intervention SLPs and Caregivers with AAC
Presenter: Michelle Dawson, MS CCC-SLP, CLC
Room Location: Richland B&C
CEU: (1,2,3,4)*
A critically acclaimed Podcaster will equip participants with research based functional resources and strategies for AAC implementation while also debunking commonly held myths surrounding AAC.
Session 3 (1:30 pm - 2:30 pm)
The Importance of Adaptive Play
Presenter: April Johnson, BA Psychology & Sociology, Certified Early Interventionist
Room Location: Carolina
CEU: (1,3,4)*
Play can be the means to reaching more positive outcomes for our children and meeting our children where they are is the key. Speaker will share ways to adapt the environment and bring more opportunities of engaged interaction to every child through play.
Interactive, hands-on experience playing wheelchair pickleball and more ...
Presenter: Joe Moore J.D., L.L.M
Room Location: Lexington A&B
CEU: (1,3,4)*
Come enjoy the thrill of revving up your heart rate while learning something new. Get first-hand experience with adaptive sports. Join us for a game of pickleball and basketball from sport wheelchairs!
SC Assistive Technology Program 101
Presenter: Rachell Johnson, MCD, CCC-SLP, ATP
Room Location: Richland A
CEU: (1,2,3,4)*
Learn about the programs and services provided by SC Assistive Technology Program. You will learn about equipment demonstrations, equipment loans, the reuse service, the equipment exchange and trainings and workshops. You will be able to participate in a Q&A session following the presentation.
Breaking down funding barriers in Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
Presenters: Sharon Steed, MS, CCC-SLP and Kelly Caldwell, MA, MS, CCC-SLP
Room Location: Richland B&C
CEU: (1,2,3,4)*
This session will simplify the process for writing AAC funding requests for all ages from submission of initial packet to responding to deferrals/denials. The content of an AAC letter of medical necessity (LMN) for Medicaid or Medicare, deferral/denial addendums and other changes since Covid-19 will be reviewed.