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Presented by Dr. Karen Blankenship (TSB) on 12/4/2020 Unity Virtual Academy 2020-2021 Session Description: This presentation will talk about the latest resources to conduct functional vision, learning media, and expanded core curriculum assessments on-site or in a virtual world.

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we're going to record the session we have I'm so excited today so this is a presentation by the unity Virtual Academy which is a collaboration between Tennessee School for the Blind Tennessee chapter of Aer and the Vanderbilt programming visual disabilities I'm Doctor resource awesome the program coordinator of the program and I am so excited to be opening up for dr. Aaron Blankenship who's going to be presenting on conducting quality essential assessments particularly in these covid times and how we can do our best to do virtual assessments first unit I'm so what I'm going to do is in the chop box I'm going to drop a link we offer both just a regular certificate of attendance as as our acvrep credits so if you're looking for credit the opening code is virtual and I'll have a condition I'm we welcome you even if you don't need us for forget to give us feedback on this island so thank you all for coming here today and dr. Karen please take away so much of a tribute for teachers and this is not to say that his conscience teacher that's not important but we're talkin trying to really about the content as a teacher and thinking about the car so just so if I ask please check your connection or use a different speaker supplements so they get organized you can get ahead so the chat box for me cuz I'm going to ask questions and I kind of want you to raise your hand or just put the end from the chat box or you can unmute whatever Rachel thinks is organized in a manner that would be everybody so different asking you to the app abuse for teachers as soon as you can. Why is you keep each specially designed instruction works with your own with Fidel so how much time do you think that you spend during your work not work year I'm conducting an assessment as it compares to teaching specially-designed instruction 1528 e what do you think percentage if you want to drop your response in the hat that we can kind of get a summary of can you repeat the question Karen thinking about your work near your work much what's the percentage of time spent in completing assessment compared to teaching specially-designed instruction would you think it's 1098-e what's your bowel in doing a assessment Christian lots of different responses 50/50 2080 1090 2575 4060 37th e we have almost every possible, and we have no real family practice in their field thinking about you know I've had too many eyes tell me that they only have 15 minutes doing stuff so it's really all over the place because we have no snow so just thinking about you know how much I'm spend and completing assessment because we can't do anything tonight we can't like an adult and I can't teach if we haven't done so in the central assessment process we have eligibility from the airport and we have entitlement from the examples Bassman remember I didn't say is true, you have to now there's a disability and then you have to show there's an impact so your assessment is the impact on the issue and its access to the general curriculum it's reading and learning media is data driven instruct it is key and completing your eye keys and thinking about what you're going to cheat so we start here and I kind of wanted to share a little bit about how the title special assessment came about I was on an international committee thanking about why teachers CBI across the country they weren't teaching Forks Trickum so we talked about that is part of it so it was it's been a long conversation so we were talking about we thought oh we don't really have a stamp so that's really think about that and then we moved on working groups and we came up with that you can't do expanded Core Curriculum you can't do the assessment and the assessment separate if your itinerary drive you crazy you think you're nothing to do an observation and demonstration so we were thinking it really is we have to do it again cuz this is really important so then we my mouth was a charm and again that's been around since about 2005 that's what I thought when I was working with grad student because I think also shares about I don't think Chico and other still understand the complexity of and I would say that their formal because again very clear this is the assessment you do for the second prong you cannot say that a child continues to have a big old tournament unless you complete so it's really am every three years you do a new essential substance to show that the second prong is still being matched and I don't know about you guys but I have had students that the past cuz I've been doing this for such a long time teams talked me into making them eligible for Google payment because they probably had a reading disability and nobody else is working with them and so this is really important that we are ethical and completing this and equality Manor Estates to say pyramid with the FBI Sandy Elementary it shares what are the accommodations that child needs to access the junk ritual because it's all about and then we don't know what we're teaching if we have not done an assessment screening and assessment in the ascent in a corporate otherwise we don't have what so it really is all data driven it's all in law because remember I D ye also said that you have to have every IP for child with a disability you have to dress academics in for us that's expanded Core Curriculum we are very very fortunate to have so we have rain ability for social axe mom said other disability areas job and I know that a lot of people in the world are working on and I wanted you to talk anytime razor Rachel will ask a question so stop me if there's ever a question so I D E A Des on completion of the administration of assessment and other evaluation group of qualified professionals how many of you I have had school districts that conducted the IP and used dolls from the year before and then let me share my updated and did eligibility without looking at this aspect if anybody has anyone else experience that were people we have some folks he's staying yet yes and yes in all caps will! because again we need to have the same verbiage were talking about you this is a formal assessment we have tools that have been determined by our field to be critical there are components of this that are in the law that are dated rubbing and so this is a shoes for us to do this assassin is sure that we are going to walking Archie and when was sharing with people how important assessment is so you get time to do it and time to write it up so that we have a quality assessment that really drive all the programs the programme for students and so this is super super important and I think a high level so you know that's why we work so hard on training and doing things like today to talk about it and then we're going to talk about how so documentation of determination it may not be a result of poor instruction and reading and math or English lack of English proficiency is done every three years unless the team deemed it unnecessary and then this gave us a wormhole that unfortunately people have used to their advantage of not but only time that you probably wouldn't need to do new Irish sport or a new sea I can't imagine another scenario where you wouldn't want to do now we get some different how many parts of the lalman here and of course the screening and talk to the FBI yeah I've had students who lost their Vision pretty dramatically or I can tell if there have been changes and you'd want to go ahead and do another second you don't want to wait for that which is not being very I'm trying to develop a program so the instructional Continuum everything I've had TV eyes tell me that they didn't have time for his basement and I asked because you can't cheat with that incessant that's why you know we all it's over the blind the first two weeks of school every year are just so we're doing our princess was trying to figure out where the student yet and where we want them to be assessment Drive every we have a question from the from someone asking if you could just what you said about the only time you would not do a reassessment I was just thinking of a scenario and this is just off the top of my head where you wouldn't need to do wire it for a child and saw me where they didn't have eyeballs your vision is not going to change and so maybe you wouldn't ask for a new Eye Health before it and you wouldn't have to do an FDA but majority of our students have received their not so we want to know him that use colors and travel and they use lights and know when they're coming from a room that's classroom out some small way so I can even with our cities with the lowest amount of dish and we're still trying to figure is there anything that they can use in their environment that is harassing chat CBI started in essential assessment in September and still has not finished due to being in person at times at Virtua at others she says she knows you may address this later in the presentation but just wanting to know what if possible to start over or continue even though there's been a break-in time is interviews observations and demonstration so all the interviews can be done and we'll get to that for sure and some of the observations like we were just talking with a teacher and the teacher who hasn't had the child in the classroom this year because I've been virtual since the start and so maybe you ask observations from the teachers before television it that's not going to talk to you in the class so some of the song I don't know if you could set it up like Suzanne where the parents set up the situation for her working in June and that's when you're doing Zumba for teens for some of the platform to have the parents that it or you could watch the student do something I don't know who's that would work to just gents but it would work for intermedia near and we have to think about Justin's but I think he's probably still some good information from September some school districts in Florida parents breaks his back into the building one at a time for assessment I don't know if it's a possibility from your school district or not but there I think there's going to be something that you just cannot do virtually and why look what I what I did at the end guys and I'll show you all the different components and what I thought we could do but will continue throughout the presentation but those are really I know you everybody's sick of hearing unprecedented times but they are we've never had this before and thinking about because typically you know about and then we've got I said 60 days to finish it and there's just no way with what's going on now we can stick to that song another question there are many questions I think probably fill the whole two hours with just question for you do you want to get to a certain point in your PowerPoint and then pause for questions or do you want to keep me keep throwing questions at people I think if there something specific so let me get through this and then I'll go through for you if that's okay thank you Karen remind you that it's these are just talking about academic and functional but you already know this is important because even through IV evaluation and so I don't know about you but as a learner I have to figure this I have to construct it in my head and figure out so what I did I did a lot of reading a majority of what I read in the literature said specimens what a student knows or can do right but I am going to minimize microchips of it rains or taking over I can't see my flight so sad when a student knows where can do it guide your programming and instruction and an evaluation compare the students achievement was a set of Standards such as a base measures did I make a difference in my this tells us what the child needs to learn where they are and then let evaluation Keys again is what difference are we making because again that we have no real we have no evidence based practice so we've got to show that what we do and that's how I do my hair today is the front end evaluations the back an assessment in the process of documenting usually and miserable charms knowledge skills is it continuous that's not an evaluation or integrated into all aspects both teachers and students with relevant and useful data to gave process progress in determining material and procedures. Starting no crowd the essential assessment guys hovers the functional assessment and of course in Texas is called a functional Vision evaluation at the number I think there's another state that uses that term as well but I was taught and you know I started in 1976 I started the program in 1972 and that's how we did not have functional assessment in 76 we were just starting to do i t and I still remember where we had training think Maria did it where is Sanford who wrote The Empty on a book at that we were all there and we all got the black forest and then we didn't have the right Matthias that's so it was quite a while after 76 before we got there so it covers the Arbors of learning media segment Salon e media also include a basic reading inventory and you need to do reading and listening a lot of teachers are doing a basic reading inventory for their classrooms and if you have a teacher that's done that's wonderful and that's one less thing you don't have to do that I bet they didn't do the listening at that they just did the reading and listening right now and s*** is the Jerry John because you can get to Jerry Johnson for the blind in Braille and in large print was trying to save you some time but it keep on the reading specialist they're recommended quantitative qualitative rating in the well and it's more it's long do children have to read longer and when you did a comparison we did a comparison with John afford Antoine year between the Jerry John's and Q are odd and the Q R I gave you a more realistic measure of where they were for the Jerry John's they were trying to write the irons and the grade level on PRI so that's the recommendation is easier to use the Jerry John's Janet Braille and in large print probably and a lot of States there's their material centers have already done all the files for the q r i n e so you could use those files and there's a question in the chart of what about students to assess like emergent literacy skills you aren't reading text you I have that rapid in Rapid sound name so that rereading it just doesn't student know all their letters student murder sounds so it's a really nice kind of early reading to see where the kids are with your letters and their side and help to be on that one of the one of the resources I have for you is those reading skills for children with complex bothering me and I'm going to share that with you because comes out of the Washington Century disability there are groups in Washington and it is really great because it takes a definition of reading broader for chest you may not meet and so I'll share that with so there is that basic rapid letter naming and Rapid found naming and the Woodcock Johnson Dino do all the reading research Advanced as well as another question Rachel nope okay then if we kept thinking about 18 years acquire so you know on the front of the IP and you have to ask yourself the question chip technology needed well for kids are going to be prepared if it's their way of accessing the environment so we trying to put this under learning media assessment just things like it's the right place to put it to make sure that every child has a chi assessment as part of your sinful assessment because it's required I know it's hard to see but I think because mysterious or another assessment so I think she has to be addressed and by pulling it out and putting it in l m a mom shoots think about that more explicitly than just keeping it one of the nine. So that's where we went and a cheetah speed we did a template and we were so thankful that Alan HD Guru did a little training section on the template to remind you of what questions to ask about a check and I talked about that message Wadi other resources are you on do you want to talk a little bit about how you decided what you put in there I think he's on but I might be wrong and then the last thing again this is what we will get to that I'll talk little bit but we have to screen and then assess and the Erika party areas so that's just part of and so Donnie principles for a second it's routine raised questions with significant disabilities always includes families and give them a voice it adheres to the riot model and the riot model stands for interviews observations and then testing both formal and informal and again there are probably diagnosticians who would say our assessments are not normal but they are they're accepted by Bastille the FBI May from a t h by Stanford and Burnett is the most widely used protocol to use for the felma so this is really important these are the tools were using and so as a field with Travis tan just stay within the there were using that tool there are different protocols tools and strategy for bearing age Acuity and ability levels unfortunately say Amen to that just not something you can pull off the shelf that makes the needs of every charge it's just not so we have to think about all the different protocols and tools and strategies you think we have to think about this specific child and that's where we start to look at what makes sense and we pulled it together if we're going to get information from families we're getting mashed mashed information from the students themselves there a key partner and it has to be valid and reliable the sense of their own hair there's a lot of options out there I really don't have any validity and reliability for children heart of because I'm also a national co-chair of the national agenda in 2006 I think the last time it was done the international Lions International lions Club maybe can't remember it was in New York City and they took every assessment they looked for reliability and validity for sensible Harriman and they put it on their website but it hasn't been updated since 2006 so it's been a long time but it was like 230 pages but it told you what part of the assessment that you could maybe but you couldn't adapt it's a great resource and I from Lighthouse thank you but of course like everything it was not it was decided that it was just not cost effective to spend the time to update but it was a great resource I say it has to be conducted over nearest day with various times of the day and environment that's what you're learning maybe assessment you're looking to see is there a difference because we know our kids have been is there a difference in the morning compared to the afternoon when do they shut down when do you know that visually it's. and then that's one of the things that we recommend to move to auditory or plant so that they don't have that I'm even like with the LMAO that wants 15 observable Behavior so it's like five different settings three different times so you're looking at a lot of different day I just activated just trying to thing not myself that it probably takes a good 28 hours to do a quality assessment in writing so it's not something that can be done in 15 minutes it's not something you can do in a day it would be something that you can't just do one day you want to come back to four times so for me I always structured on my calendar so I knew that you was going to have to have them the next year and I would set out an action plan for myself of course. Your last paper and it was colored but just trying to keep running pace for myself so I would know to go observe during PE so just making sure they're organized and can spread that various times and again it's family-centered and routine baits for birthday. It's really important families are part of it so the right model again music family students teachers and other related service providers again interviews and making sure you have so making sure you have my voice observations in the garage educational home this is when you can partner with your certified or injection to get some information about the best part of their assessment informal and formal and then keep once everything begins with assessment assessment for program planning soap to develop an action plan again that's what I recommend just to keep us on track is to look at what protocols you need to pool what tools but material how many people are using the new note from a pH the big hit anybody do you mean those kits that I have all sorts of different sort of manipulatives what not now it's the it's the black and Cheryl in the library all the nooks and it is supposed to be a partner with the Fel Fel and something dollars well we start we got quite a few of them so you can use I found it lacking and so what I still wanted to get that I did plus the news so but the new just have a lot of fun for Amanda and Josh Mandy Black and Josh Harper did a presentation last year Unity on the new on the couch together and it was a really good message so there are materials out there to help because you know I used to have to get my own and you have to pull your material then I think everybody still go to the dollar store for your s*** and there's very little you can use in the dollar store to do this so in it's about when I when I created the kit and pulled it together it was probably close to $700 but in the old days we used to have BP money and so every year we need to add to a kit and that kind of helped us build up a pretty decent assortment of tools cheese and then if you don't know where you're going you'll probably end up somewhere else and I think that is so true within a cell you can't eat without knowing what to teach you can't do it, dacians without knowing what the child is using so it's really important for us to do list the FBI is how well this is used to performing daily activities and a variety of sight and so you know they have some color vision they know different colors and they could use that for travel or not going to use it efficiently in classroom but they could use it to travel that you need or small so you want to know how well do using your vision and white boards are they using play not using the old green chalkboard with the chalk on it so how often do they show videos what do the handouts look like the teacher gives out so don't try to do does might require looking in the classroom week to look on to join a virtual session and stay with the teachers using for the virtual session and help with you know what we need to think about implant or was that virtual session you have to observe how student uses their Vision to complete daily activities with the writing materials and you identify me to the combination and I know there was a time when we were just and now we have to be more never did we have to show that that's going to make a difference and then we're going to find ways to increase efficiency so we're looking at that hopefully using the low vision specialist are they using optical device are they using a handheld a lighted magnifier or what are they doing for intermediate and as I get older I'm having to think about all three for myself the protocols guys and I think Sanford Burnett I don't think I have the most up-to-date and I don't know 2010 but it comes from American printing house for the blond and brunette Felman and it's a protocol and then Sandra brunette Jen a wonderful one but they didn't publish it because it's same time they were using it so I said well I say and a big box and there were three different notebooks in there and I know some teachers have use kiss them parts of it and but most people have not used it has not gotten to school project so the FPL automatic response just left this was just a little bit easier to use and I say that China's balls the same procedures that Maria and Rebecca and the other protocols so that's the one I was using and got permission from the music cuz it is I want to talk a little bit about the Braille law and we just now we are free not every three or four years we going to another letter i g a two thousand four years of Braille in Most states have followed and have their own bread as well so it says in the Charles is blind or instruction and Braille and the use of Braille unless the eye after an evaluation of the child's reading and writing you appropriate reading and writing media including thinking about the future needs of the style that Braille is not the most efficient and so again this is not so this is the learning videos. we are required by law to have some sort of formative assessment to show what is the best media for this child as we've gone from when I first started we were cops I'd say teachers and the resource room would turn the lights on and I think it's his business same thing every child we didn't have like they were on Saturday and then with the research by Natalie Derek about using your vision actually improved your thing back in the sixties then we saw things change but we think they used to think Barnes preserve what didn't they had and so just like everything else and education so we went from a labral probably to know Brown and now we're probably more looking at the Ella Mae and hopefully there's more than one media in a toolbox so for our kids with retinitis Pigmentosa we know that they're going to lose her vision so maybe there's some brown your toolbox so looking at this I think more academically on and now we're required assessment to show the name but this is it's just hard because if they have right now and they're not in opposition in Braille so they're not sufficient for the song down in Brainerd you're not proficient in Braille so you're going to have to use your expertise and your Professional Knowledge to say you know I know that we don't have the bread but I think you're going to need it and thinking about you know how to balance and then on top of that most students in college are using Auto so when do we move she's me from Braille to auditory or some brown Sprint combination with other devices or video to audio so again there's a lot we have to think that there's a lot that shoulders F professional for the rest of their lives and then the learning media staff has it that it was developed in 1995 by A & K Holbrook and it has now been updated a little bit about the central truth so it's been applied in the new resource from chassis of the Blind and Visually Impaired but it's an objective process of systematically selecting learning and literacy media reading and writing or it's a series of observations and assessment to determine primary secondary tertiary sensory channels material in other words and the protocols and Holbrook I don't know why but it's the blue book assessment by chance be bi and again and then learning s*** and they are the process it's not already updated it supposed to be in it and then there's the basic reading inventory and then even though there's a new tool out from Texas. published or whatever to you sound it's still the most popular and we did about four different views and we used a rubric on what the literature says when I feel that we should we applied it to every commercially available material and found the stanford-binet and then the next closest was Vision Associates and there was only like 36 so Sandra Burnett still has most of the areas that are required to review chicken doctor parties and then City assessment brunch at 5 you're going to use the sensory channels include Stanley's you do a general learning media because actually what they're asking you to do is to start thinking about are you going to do formal letter C and 4 literacy and I cannot put on use a teacher to have good data backup and indicators and then the S okay for students with severe cough disability they're looking at what are the motivation for students what are the what is the things they like what are they too and so that's really important to think about and then it's the other remember we talked auditory and visual for kids with different significant disabilities because they used more senses when they're when they're working so some students love to swing or to spend other students don't so that becomes things that you think about a story airing my dirty laundry so we were doing videos at Texas with the blind so we had sourced units all different ability levels all different Acuity levels and we were videoing so we were there for about a week and we're a video and so I was doing and it smells so and so I feel the blueberry stuff all over the map and just then I just ruined the whole every different sorts of stamps anymore in the old days so responsible and cautions and modification observation record and then there's the lights and dislikes from Washington and I'm going to show you that it's here and there Four Seasons well and then the functional learning media checklist which is number 8 on the L M A and on the rich guys that are in the Dropbox Michelle all this gym how to organize but it has the page numbers and the resource in the roofer to remind you what to look at so you get a prompt and you don't have to think about this so for 5 to 22 years of age looking at general student information use of sensory channels Gemma learning media checklist on three and form two indicators are Readiness which is form for initial selection of which the media literacy tools inventory form 7 and I know our technology people things right and helping still out there and where kids are no can they use the keyboard so he and Allen's tools in the template but I'll have to send it to you so basic reading inventory Jerry John's in for both of those it's the same thing it's reading and listening comprehension what grade level are they reading on and get remember we want it to be at instructional independent because we're not going to be in there with so you can do a functional level but that doesn't really tell us anything we want to go to threshold for independent and instructional and then it's correct words per minute I used to do just work the minute that was thinking about how many wet and so it's rare rest for a minute and then you see see what's my favorite topic. because I think he's worked on to help us and again when it became a TR and AMC in central Harkins office so they were in there frequently advocating for the easy seem to be part of ideas and so Julie Carter who wrote she said I agree I agree but we can't use that term because it's so disability specific so she put in functional action and there is a long history of how functional apps it didn't even thought so it required by law for us and you have to go out and just quickly on transition your ACC assessment are perfect for transition so it requires additional areas of learning necessary for possibly. experiences in concert again most of those areas are learned by other students by so that they can see how their parents I was just do it but we can't do that these skills must be systematically is sequentially part of the nearest such a specialized unique in the early days of the Selma Maria Rebecca called and unique skills was just calling to be seasick so it has but basically some of the same but what you did was he gave us a framework in 1996 which is very exciting so when I had to I had to think about meeting the needs of students with muscle impairments in Iowa I came back to our field because I thought we had it done so they need to be taught explicitly and sequentially so once I get foundational skills you can you know you can just do reinforcement but somebody somewhere is that a cheap suspended it's not new it's been around since 89 ice all references in literature from 1929 to 1948 so it's been around a long time since the other area so it's just it's not new but it's been trying and I was just shocked since it was formed in 1995 and I still need teachers who are told that they can't teach it so it's just shocking that all these years were still struggling and just to remind you that the nine areas are assistive technology and then I just checked on boarding everybody gets keyboard but aren't you and sometimes we teach that in kindergarten earlier station which includes transition if you're still using the academic that has not been since 2010 so be sure that that's has been gone for so if my head is it's what the child. being frail literacy and so is it is they need to talk Bennett Independent Living orientation Mobility Recreation leave yourself my favorite which includes both auditory visual impact it used to be just seeing if you're still using a protocol that all three of those and that was that was due to no Matthew said that she can't just have this one you have to have to have to work together and so we change that 2010 so it's just a technology as part of its access to information communication personal productivity tools and students if it is offered to most students find the general curriculum but the stakes are so children accessing things that are colored how did that have hot buttons that you have to pick to answer so is I like the way she explained it was awareness preparation preparation placement think about it where is like in kindergarten but then you start floor because we want students to know that there is a whole world out there all days are students going to be ham radio operators and then they wanted to be social workers so they need to know that there are tensions floor and then starts repair you want to be stressed that getting work or gone to the last two years of high school they're more likely to be employed play Lauren does employability skills course materials it depends living is organization personal hygiene and grooming there is a neutral out and I don't know if you seen it but it was developed and I think and it is a nice location to Cheney I so it is a wonderful resource to think about if I can change it or not wreck in Leisure you're wanting them to have some sort of fitness and things with that you do long-term your life and is self-determination is there are combination of he has knowledge and beliefs that a neighbor person's engage in Gold directed self-regulated autonomous Behavior so I always like I like the definition by Phil's Martin Warden and in they use a different definition and we found that there are seven and reused the research by Eric hartter and Kathleen Lane to talk about the seven different front struts and then what teachable skills come under the research shows that you can't teach a child to self determine what you can teach these constructs and these skills so there's also I'm in the in the resource guys a rubric that Christina Von Ryan based on This research that is really nice to use I know Johnny a lot and he really likes it just about the stove and she kind of measure where they are and I pray she is all of the channels and so research supports a multi-modal Roche College Station for all kids we should be working on their listening skills skills and their skills and then Primary Learning modes of the secondary gustatory receptors so and then and then start tonight and that statement I love this has been a bowels this whole Continuum where you know that there's something on your fingertips then you can start to scream that you can start to have to be able to learn learn to use that for information so you're moving along attention you like I know that there's something there but I need to figure out what it is and then it becomes more complex as they get older because our tax brackets they are very complex for high school students in college in South socialism body language social communication but they didn't really know about the dogs and chips and friendships and you have to monitor social interaction any of you ever read the editorial pages of it to send out Hubbard Lewis I think he got so excited when Suzanne that nodding his head with the same thing as saying yes he didn't have to say it so and then report writing destroyed there's no spelling and it's written specially tools for selecting student I know we got people from across the country not just Tennessee is everyone come up with the template to use for your own School District or for your own division provision anything right I'm just going to encourage you if you're not using a template or if you have not signed something that you think so important is that really is your values and that lets people know that no matter who's coming in a new hire or that you're all doing the same thing cuz I know everyone is I've gotten from other states with so coming up with what is important for your District or four-year program decides our value system this is going to be fluted in everything we do and that way when you share its juice go from teachers teacher you got the same information so I think about that and then we're going to talk little bit about the screen tools again the Felman Val's I got so excited and 22 if there is an assessment for all nine areas with extended for an there's also an assessment for academics so it's a wonderful tool and it also includes and then dance it's been updated since 2016 I'm sure but I he gave me a quick easy reading level math level and then stops from 2014 and then you still I have it in the Dropbox for you but it's in his house as well and then we'll come back and drop box cuz I want to see if there's any so there's a brand-new till essential tools of the trade a guide for completing the Central and so it is updated that are all the forms have been updated looking at the the troll section of the Illinois to set fires and things like that so everything's been updated in there and just not have a protocol so it's a Rachel has anyone ordered it and are using it out there I swear this isn't a plug but I actually have mine right next to my desk is it is it is it is the alternate version of everything and and I apologize for stepping away from the computer briefly before I put in the chat box I've dropped two evils and the EPA as well as I'm just a pilot light is it easier for people to have writing check to see so evil I love this new tool it's great that does not replace your Selma that's the only thing so sorry someone asked how much I think tools of the trade is and it's $100 from tsbvi and I know that's not cheap but it is the FDA and updated allame so and doctor flash drive with everything on so you could buy one for your program in chair between teachers so violates copyright law so you did not hear that I'm just saying this in there and you can have it but it's a wonderful to one and $1,000 just to and I put that on my computer because then you can copy and paste why didn't your day is fabulous that's why I love it so much I love you now just because you can't ride into your datasheet still stats and then you can write your goals by percentage of skills accomplished or master so it's a wonderful tool I have not personally used to help died but I know. and I know Stacey is presented to classes on that so I assumed it to Rachel and I think I'll chime in I attended in a peach session last I'm good it was I'm cc'ing and galyen presented just on the  ed chapter and I think the webinar was recorded it was like I'm supposed to check a pH archives Rachel I think it gives you think it gives you a source to buy the dolls There's within that 8020 guy sent they on their home they have links to all of the atomic consumer places pre-made places that you can buy consume atomically accurate model so it's all within there in India how to approach it and they really emphasize that this is a guide for teachers not a guy for students so it's to help teachers teach the concept excessively to TV eyes against traveling with those in the back of your car and got pulled over and had to explain to the police why they have at a time so cute and I and then I'll go to the Dropbox how how much time do you want to spend on Cuban a well we've got it's basically so we do have about 45 minutes do we have time to open the floor remind me about 20 minutes to go to the resources the few folks if you questions are some of the questions they put in the chat or answered along the way and I know not of them all of them were so feel free to repeat your question in the chat box or unmute yourself and share out whichever you're more comfortable with answer your questions I'll go back to you after the Dropbox or were you going to talk about you said you just lied about virtual have I had reached handout someone asked Jesse Central tools of the trade covered testing TV I stood on it so yes it does shouting it is it's in a music return to court and everything in there so you have to put the tabs and put your information behind it but it was pretty easy to understand I remember the first time I got the so I just wasn't that clear and concise this one is I thought it was really easy to put did you write I realized when I was about to use with that I had put the tabs in right so I need to still do that but but you with questions now this would also be a great time even though Karen has the resource guide on Virtual considerations if their specific questions about virtual considerations for now it's now it also be a great time can I ask a question without typing thank you I have a student that I've just gotten fifth grade very very very low vision not enough to function visually in the classroom weird family situation of course is always happy babe at the grandmother and the child are very much against Braille using a cane anyting and it really bothers me because I'm the IP or says do they need Braille yes they do but what do you do when you're not you know so I'm racking my brains out trying to find things that are and we're wearing iPad in Annapolis District the things that we can do with the voice over Brenda audio accommodations I'm sorry my head's not together now that's okay I was just the other I don't know what to do with this child because I'm itinerant and I think I'm in but it's all about building you may take a while for them to get on board with that he'll be in Middle Ages and I remember Jonathan Cooper who's in Manhattan they were telling him that they couldn't stop this child has lost her vision and the father he said can access general education and alone is not literacy there's nothing Charles. Going to continue to make progress they're not going to be able to do the work in general education and they may end up you know you just not being able to get a General Degree aren't you going like that I don't know if that and Betsy Fleener has developed a braille overlays for the iPad so I can't remember the remember the name what are slender and I can't remember but Lounge says other people have suggestions you can turn your mic song please please cuz I've never had a situation like this oh yeah yes other suggestions Amber you've been in jail now you've been doing this a while what are your suggestions for parents that are resistant to using a cane and went over the other day and he won't he won't he won't Trail he won't use he came in the other day with his nose all messed up cuz he didn't use protective techniques going down to find something I said see what I've been trying to teach you I am 39 years of teach I've never had anything like this I'm going to play Devil's Advocate a little bit here and I do a lot more with say that we have an ethical responsibility when we have data and that child needs the child's best interest we have a responsibility Minority Report local Aid it's a Minority Report but again you don't that's nothing about anybody wants to take but we do have an ethical responsibility and I talked about that and documented that in the minutes I know it's not enough my IP does not reflect it as much as it should have I was a little leery it's a big political family here in town too so that was kind of another thing but a lot of it is orientation mobile and working on how to use the iPad you know with the voiceover and all that stuff which I hate voice over but sounds like that's what I mean that sounds like a duck best you could do in the situation you're in as for the first year for the first year you can teach this protective techniques and since thanks that Also may be kind of on the sly introduce them tactical awareness and things like that that actually if he's working on other Concepts I've been doing that kind of work that in with things and yeah we were playing we have had a stress ball and we were throwing that up against the wall and he had to use protective technique to go down and find the ball and you know things like that so I've been trying to do things that are kind of fun would get him interested in what's going on at someone in the chat just suggested, and I was going to chime in with you is asking if the family is met with other families to results with I'm in 9 extreme situation is your in but similar I've had a lot of success either grandma or the child with other sometimes like-minded and sometimes different reminder I'm folks within the blindness world because they're the they might connect with that much cheaper than their connecting with you since you represent the school system and what they're not for right now in along those lines to I had a lot of success getting the steam to start using hurricane I'm just by using a reward system where she wanted whatever she was motivated by she got points throughout the day if she use her team and she earned her Awards and stuff like that just becomes habit time you know we all like stickers and rewards and you know whatever motivates us so sometimes just taking the rationale out of it okay thank you I don't want to take a pain but more time but thank you there's a time I was another question in the chat slowness any tips for testing distance FDA in Virtual settings when you have to take into account writing on the board and projections how can that be situated at home for testing for students with low vision are in intermediate going to be easier of virtually you have to set up something you could be in a male home a whiteboard small whiteboard to the family was different colored markers and have them Mark out 10 feet 20 feet and you could be watching from the back as astute was identifying you know I don't think I'd want to lend my charts to families I'm cuz they're too expensive but you know those kinds of things I think the other things other than those formal measures like for the distance that you for using the fine blue more for using a chart or you know other than the other pieces and parts we could set up from the home but you're going to have to have a really good relationship family and they're willing to do so you have to talk about it you have to set up the scenario and tell them how to do it and set it up and then you could watch because typically the best FAL I'm in tears because you really need to be looking at the eye you know how the other person is doing the measures gives you a lot of really good information he's got some a partner that you're doing it with that you want you wouldn't be able to if you're doing it by yourself so that parent might become your partner and thinking about this if I can Diamond guarantee you I would say what to think about what the purpose of it's always really important to think about the purpose of each component of the assessment like why why do you want this data and how are you going to be and so I kind of like challenges all the think about these unusual times and our students are only working at home and they're not coming to school do we even need the data right now but they're looking out at the Ford I'm all Assassin's right now should be written with clear top of the paper and in the recommendation summary part a statement that it was done during social distancing hybrid learning real clear blame her but statement under the conditions under which the assessment was done and also you can have real clear recommendations of this is what we were capable of doing right now but as soon as we're back to consistent in school I need X Y and Z data we can update this report and have a holistic view of the student you know we're not going to be able to get all the data we want right now but you in the students file reflects that so that we can let any I'm looking at the students report a month from now or 5 years from now know that that wasn't as accurate picture child is being helped again I think that's a great strategy in a good suggestion cuz these are unusual times and in a maybe there's not 10 20 feet at the home that the child has to do at the home you might want to know how far away from the television they need to be you know how can they read the microwave which would really give you a good inside and to the home or you would never have that usually so I like that this there's some suggestions to encourage and CT scans in the chat and then their question that was asked is I was student he was diagnosed with CBI and retinal Dystrophy and is totally blind mom said the doctor told her there was an medical advancements that may help her recover some site have you heard of such advancement she's extremely intelligent and blindness is for only disability I'd recommend the actor the pediatric ophthalmologist about that for sure cuz they're there are new things all the time but yeah that would not be anything I'd recommend legally anyway stay out of that Quagmire any other questions before we start looking at some of the resources guys hearing none I am going to bring up think since we've been talking about this let me see if I can show up let me find listen to drop Elaine at a reminder link to the Dropbox so everything and hopefully we won't all flooded at once but yeah just for yourself okay well this is kind of thinking about what we can do virtually and again this is just my best educated guess and you know as much as you know your student you know your family's more than I do but you can send out do you have the interviews observations are all digital you can send those out to classroom teachers you know for our students and then we had them last year for short. Of time so maybe you know the teachers know about this child that you could send out some the interview and find out when's the best time in their schedule samples of their hand out maybe teachers have digital electronic with you reviewing and careful record checking protocols and rubric for needed information on medical information hopefully you have access to digital files things that are on musi IP or you're looking at it again these were things that I kept on students so I kept their all I know because there's a lot of discrepancies may be put on oh my gosh so I had this information so I can go back and look for my review and I wouldn't have to be in a hearing screening anything I can use you from hearing screening you could talk to other religions I get our intervention do we have anything from select appropriate energy forms again and on your computer and so one of the first things we have to do is we have to personalize a few screenings and then maybe grabs all the interviews J Martins Wikipedia rats and anything that you can do digitally do it now get that over with and this is something it's really easy and then you know what's important to the stamp kids with significant disabilities what routines do they do what would that look like and you could watch you can watch you know why they're reading or what the child's watching television again depends on your relationship with your family and getting that all set up a lot of that interviews and observation but you can watch students at home do things you could ask the family what their likes and dislikes are your medication is it first thing in the morning do you know in the morning cuz I know we're all June sessions and so do we notice that when we're on the same to be able to stay awake but we have a hard time keeping gay you can do that you might be able to do some functional things like that again important home but you can ask the question I don't think that would work suction do not write protocols for felma again get everything done that the interview and part of the observations that you can you can do a BRI on your mail it home you know the sections we have this family down there right form a dorm being level and have them read in your collecting data which is kind of cool because you can look at them while they're reading if you're observing Braille you have to and I was saying she could be doing this taking a video anyway you don't you want to watch to see where there's a proper placement how many words getting stomped on you know so this would be a great way to do the informal measures of the year so I think it's very durable to do a cc priority areas evals evals Oregon into check Guilds of the look at her dance a lot of interviews and observations so you'd have to pull out the protocol and see what can I do to Observation what can I do for an interview and then if you have to have a demonstration that's going to be a little harder but not impossible so they have to figure out you know what could they do are they willing to do to help with it I think it's a pretty cool idea for what we do with our simple stuff like that word but we don't really know they don't really know what we're doing you're not with us so the next thing I'm going to show at the Iowa screening tool screening tool in the at the Alamo but you made her some more like a running long so there's two there's one that I'm on this is just really easy to send out and you what the first thing you do is you make it for that chicken time so you go through and you take out things are inappropriate if there are things that are on here that you want to be sure you're collecting information on those on because how to students your targeting the conversation but this cuz you're not going to need to have a conversation around it doesn't mean that you're going to do yeah there's no way I could do without you seen it it's three volumes there's no way I can come through this but this is your conversation you're hard on your way rain doesn't mean that you are going to have to teach it but you have it on the radar screen of what you need and then you have the phone and depending on how many that's what you did one of the thing is signature writing doesn't write bell ring so when a child walks into your room they sign in there practicing their signature that is not a goal but they're getting cracked every day on Sunday so those kinds of things and you are at I'm here I think it's going to be hard tell me the time and what you're teaching to make sure that this gets into long-term memory in once a month it's not going to get into it's just not the research on teaching the mornings not going to do that so this is that this covers all the nine areas of the expanded Corporation so this is just something to have it station and then you using Val's to go in Genesis so that's that one so I can start sharing that one and two read there's so many things in there sorry guys I have a ton of stuff I am looking for I'm sorry I guess I'm looking for the Texas region 10 there's region Chan took the Iowa one and then Megan a lot more discreet so and they gave you the page from the valves that you go right to read to look at it's that and I know I brought it up so it's in the folder where's that Rachel it's so it's in the SEC screening tools holder okay so go back to that one I just shared this is 14 region 10 streaming to Lazada hey it's not showing I'm sorry. I'm old I thought I had it but if she can pull it up on drop offs is that app on screen it is it is wonderful so it gives you more discreet skills and then gives you the page move out so it's in like a contraction Braille in Section 1 pages but when I do when I training I have people compare contrasting the Iowa one in this one and typically what they say is they like to I will want to send out to families and students and teachers and then they'll use this one to collect the data year of what you worked on might be a little too complex to understand to send out everybody so it's up to you but I think it's wonderful and I like the games as page numbers I think so when you have your priority areas in your while you can mark that you worked on those and it tells you where to do this message thank you there is here so rude I'm going to quickly show you but it just tells you what the resources are and some people across North America are using it tells you what page in this may not be so sad to be in there formatting in word format it you can do whatever but it's it's a goddamn for kids with disabilities so there's rubrics in there again from the research from the literature to help establish the standard practice this was something that I thought was a great resource read and it's from the Washington and just breaks it down so that we don't keep thinking about conditional read so for students with severe cognitive we might start here before we get to a real turn on the formal way of reading so it's just a great resource that kind of helps us have brought about okay Braum's at Horizon I thinking about so it's in there just because I think here is just there's an action plan in there because I think it's important for us to try to organize ourselves and think about you know what we need to do when we need to do it what you were going to use so there's an action plan to do that it's in there and then there's copy of the seven components of self-determination that Christina did I did not I didn't like the stuff determination assessment in a valve so because I didn't think it was really based on Research tell Christina that the stabbing, and then she took the tenth equals Feels by my wymiar and Marty Agron and she kind of organize them about where they should be along if so that's out here and how do you use this guy's you should go through and you can interview observe and you mark yet be negative or positive as a child misses more than 50 per cent of it in that area area you should teach so Jodi are you on could you talk a little bit about how you use it quickly he may be muted but it's just a life is better just to remind you all the people skills and all the time and evaluate you guys stop the termination date between social interaction and self-determination and I think there's a way of being sure that we don't do that so that's why I like through brick pattern also I want to tell you so Tori hearing who was a student she said you know what she's so she and Danny collapsed into one too so I put that in there for you guys because on the website as well there are other Karen interviews because they are the chief didn't really like the intern how much Selman sell theirs on the EA rubiks.com website there's some interviews and then this one Tori and Danny just collapsed everything it's a 1/4 so I put that in there for you if you like it you don't don't but the Tugger fehlmann they cover Workshop is awesome show tools into a Dropbox and I have to drop off I'm sorry you called on me I was just using the restroom yeah and I just sent Miss Swift the entire section and then one argues is the indicator under self-awareness and I use it with all my students I just used it this morning upcoming iup that I'm getting ready to have and it's been very beneficial you know my students have gained so much from this rubric nunni broken it down and I have created my own rubric to sort of grade this you know my student and I broke it down in like percentages from 0 to 100 and like I said I use the self-awareness rubra and it has been very very beneficial and I really enjoy it and not only it I mean it helps them with every subject not just e c c I really like it and I'm seeing a lot of benefits from using it I would put it in the Dropbox yeah okay let me do that I think it's wonderful you know I'm dr. Blankenship I think they're like seven of the indicators that and I use I've been using a self Awareness Month she's been like I said very very beneficial so I'll go ahead and post that here okay thank you you're welcome and I want to share with you I didn't pull everything up there's a couple more things in the in the Dropbox if you want to use them for still freezing you some stuff yes I was just going to ask if there any other questions before cuz we're getting close to the end we are so you know it will do is cuz we're close to the end and I don't know if there's many I'm putting the right side of the PowerPoint the link to the survey that we all really love your feedback on time if you can complete the closing code if you need a CB are you credit at closing time is assessment and there's a red cap survey Link in the chat box as in the survey link is also on the left side of hearing PowerPoint today being Friday or buy ideally today or over the weekend or early next week please complete the survey and then I'll pull all of the request for certificates whether it's just an attendance or Academy Credit I'll pull that next week and hopefully before when you all your significant other do feel that out even if you don't need it we would still love your feedback so there's a link the service there I'm sure Karen wouldn't mind staying out a little bit if there's additional questions or if you don't feel comfortable asking him and Jody just sent the file so yay hope this works that's one I've got a couple different versions of it back I think that's the one but yeah once you and I talked about this for e c c and friends ishin I've used it you know for 3 years now with everything Legend take the phone with you so I love how we support each other and how we share with each other I just think that's what's cool about our field that we are a huge Brain Trust and I have not been all these years have not found one person that I could not reach out to even the highest Echelon in our field are very gracious when you reach out to them and ask them a question or ask for a resource and I just that's what I love about our feel I think we all support Elder it would all work together because there's no reason to reinvent the wheel if there is something you can use it's easier to tweak it then to start all over again and develop something so that's why share with each other if there's other things. that you want me to that you want to share and want me to drop it in the Dropbox you can send it to me at Karen. Blankenship at TSB . Edu not no sorry tsp tigers. oh Tina was saying that she is appreciating the support because she's brand new and you know it just comes second nature to some of us oldies and goodies but thank you Rachel what's the name took Jody what did you name that tool that you posted dr. blank and seven components determination so it means you may have the oldest appreciate you it may be that it has the same title as the other guys to download both of them and look at it call Dennis into but they want the one where you did the 02 all okay the Rupert wasn't like created turn off damage data collection let me see if I can do the to the Dropbox and then come back in a couple days later and see if there's anything else in there and folks you can create a rubric that will benefit you and you know I created a very small rubric that would work and give me the scores that I would need based on my students but I also made it in a way that if my students leave me and go to another classroom that that next teacher to Easley picked up on that route break and make that work for the rest of their IP or you know you just make it work for them so it's a very basic and very simple one find it here I didn't until you convince me to try to create one true beneficial are great so and they're great to use in your goal something measurable so Rachel thank you so much you and Alan for inviting me this is been really appreciate it's an honor it's been our pleasure have you I'm going to

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