[Athen] QIAT for Post Secondary Education WIKI

[Ron Stewart]

Hi Shelly and all,

I am not saying it is not a real effort, I was being somewhat tounge in
cheek with my comment though the fact that almost all of the participants
are full time consultants is a valid concern. Anyone can be a proffet when
they are 100 miles from home :)

I participated in development of the QIAT standards and have a lot of regard
for these folk's work in the k-12 realm.  I also have extensive experience
working with many of this cast of characters and I think my concerns about
their overall lack of any substantive higher ed experience as service
providers is directly relevant to what they are proposing to do here. 

That said the reason that I sent this to the list was to encourage the ATHEN
membership to get involved with this so that it does result in something
that contributes to our work instead of resulting in one more distraction
from actually making students with disabilities more successful in their
efforts. These folks have a lot of deserved influence in the k-12 IDEA world
and it is always better to be part of a solution than part of the problem.

Ron 


-----Original Message-----
From: rmhaven at stanford.edu [mailto:rmhaven at stanford.edu] 
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 2:17 PM
To: Access Technologists in Higher Education Network; Ron Stewart
Subject: Re: [Athen] FW: REMINDER... QIAT for Post Secondary Education WIKI

Hi, Ron (and all)!

I'd say it's a real effort.  Prior to being at Stanford, I spent about  
10 years in the K-12 arena and worked with the folks behind the  
Quality Indicators for Assistive Technology (QIAT) -- Joy Zabala (who  
posted the message below), Penny Reed, Gayl Bowser, Diana Carl, and  
others.  As part of an Arizona Dept. of Education program, we received  
substantial training on this and then worked closely with school  
districts throughout the state to help special education departments  
and IEP teams adopt and practice this approach.  It seems like a  
natural extension of their current efforts to apply these very  
effective and consistent "best practices" beyond K-12 into the  
post-secondary environment where many of these students will be heading.

- Shelley



Quoting Ron Stewart <ron at ahead.org>:


> Thought I would bring this to your attention since this work is directly

> relevant to one of ATHEN's state professional goals.  The QIAT protocols

are

> well established in k-12, perhaps some of you would like to join in with

> this effort to insure the relevant postsecondary issues are dealt with.

Is

> this a real effort, or just a group consultants looking for more work?

>

>

>

> Ron Stewart

>

>

>

> From: Quality Indicators for Assistive Technology

[mailto:QIAT at LSV.UKY.EDU]

> On Behalf Of Joy Zabala

> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 11:11 AM

> To: QIAT at LSV.UKY.EDU

> Subject: REMINDER... QIAT for Post Secondary Education WIKI

>

>

>

> Good morning, QIAT people. Happy Monday!

>

>

>

> I have great confident in the willingness and passion of QIAT people to

> share their thoughts and opinions, so I know that you just need a

reminder.

>

>

>

> Remember the earlier message about the efforts of Bryan Ayres, Janet

Peters,

> Russ Holland to adapt QIAT to address the issues and responsibilities of

> people working with individuals in post-secondary environments.  The

initial

> target environment and population is staff working in disability support

and

> disability service in post secondary education environments such as open

> enrollment community colleges and four year institutes of higher

education.

>

>

>

> Please take some time to go to the WIKI dedicated to the initial work

> located at  www.qiatgrowsup.pbwiki.com

<http://www.qiatgrowsup.pbwiki.com/>

> and add your comments, edits, etc.

>

>

>

> The invitation code to the WIKI is qiat.  Please read the first page of

the

> WIKI and become familiar with the www.qiat.org <http://www.qiat.org/>

site

> and the generic indicators on the wiki site prior to editing.  You must be

> logged on to edit.   You can ask the WIKI to send you feedback on edits

that

> have been made.

>

>

>

> The value of your knowledge and experience with QIAT makes your input

> EXTREMELY VALUABLE to this work

>

> .

>

> Looking forward to seeing YOUR comments on the WIKI.

>

>

>

> Joy

>

> .

>

>

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