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Worcester, Massachusetts

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AT Specialist

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Currently I am working in the Shrewsbury Public Schools as an Assistive Technology Specialist. I work with the special education teams in all the schools preschool through high school.
I have my masters degree in Assistive Special Education Technology from Simmons College. A Bachelor's Degree in Early Childhood Edcuation from Wheelock College. And an Early Chlidhood Education Teacher's Licence for MA.

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My first year as an Assistive Tehcnology Aide.

Last year was my first year as an Assistive Technology Aide for Shrewsbury Public Schools in Massachusetts. As the AT Aide I am responsible for all the special education rooms in the entire district. Yes that is a tall order to fill. I have learned a lot about myself over this past year.

This past year I felt like I was in 100 pla

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At 1:51pm on June 18, 2008, Colleen Gorman said…: I have added a slide show of some of the low tech equipment that I have adapted over the past two years. The teachers at Simmons certainly inspired me to do some of these.

At 1:27pm on June 18, 2008, Colleen Gorman said…: Yes I got married. My new last name is now Gorman.

At 8:13pm on November 3, 2007, Deb Barrows said…: Hi Colleen,

This is great information! Once you get evaluating you might want to check out some of the work Mad's Simmons' Grad students did this spring aligning Clicker 5 grids to the various Stages. Go to: http://clicker5lifeskills.wikispaces.com/ and click on the 1. Aligning Stages... link

There are several ways to learn more about this on this page.

Deb

At 7:50pm on November 3, 2007, Colleen Gorman said…: Hi Deb,
The orginal SWAT team that was created had purchased STAGES. So far I have not done any direct evaluations with the students. I do want to update our version of STAGES to inclued the mathe an report wizard. I belive that when the teams see what it is capiable of they will be more willing to use it.

At 7:40pm on November 3, 2007, Deb Barrows said…: Hi Colleen,

It sounds like you had an exciting first year. Are you using STAGES with your students?

Deb

At 12:52pm on November 3, 2007, Colleen Gorman said…: Sam,
Are you going to be in the Boston are for ASHA? If so we should get togher and catch up.

At 10:05pm on November 1, 2007, Samuel Charles Sennott said…: Colleen, Good to see you, friend. The Metrowest is so lucky to have you working to help their learners!