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Every student deserves the right tools. Start with the right questions.

Assessment guides, manuals and classroom kits written by Wisconsin's assistive technology consultants. Free to download, print and use with your team. Assessment guides, manuals and classroom kits written by Wisconsin's AT consultants. Free to download and share.

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Contents

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  1. I Consideration to Assessment 13 forms
  2. II The ASNAT manual 16 chapters
  3. III Student Information Guide 18 forms
  4. IV Classroom materials Kits and guides
  5. V En español 2 files

How the process reads

Three steps, one story about each student.

The WATI process moves a team from asking whether AT could help, to gathering what they know, to trying tools and deciding together.

  1. i.Consider

    Decide whether a student needs AT as part of the IEP.

    Consideration Guide Form Procedure Guide for Consideration

  2. ii.Gather information

    Observe the student and collect what the team knows across settings.

    Student Information Guide forms Classroom Observation Guide

  3. iii.Try and decide

    Run trials with AT tools, then reach a decision as a team.

    Trial Use Summary Decision Making Guide

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TitleTimes borrowed
Assistive Technology Decision Making Guide Consideration to Assessment · Word 29,610
Procedure Guide for Assessment Consideration to Assessment · Word 15,798
Consideration Guide Form Consideration to Assessment · Word 15,648
AT Continuums Consideration to Assessment · Word 14,531
Classroom Observation Guide Consideration to Assessment · Word 13,508
Assistive Technology Trial Use Summary Consideration to Assessment · Word 13,406
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Foreword

Kept on the shelf by the people who wrote it.

The Wisconsin Assistive Technology Initiative began in 1993 to help school districts and Birth to 3 programs provide assistive technology. Funded by the Department of Public Instruction until 2009, it placed assistive technology consultants in each of Wisconsin's twelve CESAs.

Today a group of former WATI consultants volunteers to keep these materials available, free of charge, for anyone who needs them.

Read the full history Write to the volunteers