Register for: Feature Match Closer Look: Features of AT Writing Tools with Kelly Fonner

Sorting through all of the options available to support struggling writers can be a challenging portion of the assistive technology assessment process. Throughout this webinar we will be describing and demonstrating the feature options in writing technologies through input, processing, output and other key features that pertain to people with physical disabilities, health impairments, and/or cognitive disabilities. During this webinar we will overview the areas of mouse alternatives, onscreen keyboards, alternate keyboards, and the variety of word prediction systems. Participants will receive a feature match matrix that they can use during their alternative writing evaluation process. The benefits to learning this feature match approach is that this process extends beyond the writing area and into all areas of assistive technology.

Learning Objectives

- List the input, processing and output features of alternative writing products

- Compare and contrast alternative writing products in the categories of alternate keyboards, mouse alternatives, onscreen keyboards and word prediction

- Create an assessment plan including trials for individual cases