SWAAC webinar series

“Join us for this webinar series presented by Kelly Fonner.

The three sessions will distribute data collection information in this way:

• Feb 8: Session 1, Framing the Data Question & Creating a Plan

• Feb 22: Session 2, Developing & Using Data Collection Tools

• Bonus Session (date to be determined): Powerful data through uPAR
  Presenter: Ruth Zilkowski, Text Help Systems

• Mar 8: Session 3, Analyzing & Learning from the Data

Data collection is often a looming task in the provision of services to individuals who use assistive technology and for service providers to track the effectiveness of their projects. What do you measure? Why do you collect data? How do you frame the data collection process and question so that what is being collected is essential and makes sense? 

During this 3-part webinar series, join Kelly Fonner to learn effective and efficient strategies to collect data in the provision of services to your AT clients. We will be using the “How do you know it? How do you show it? (P.Reed, G.Bowser, J.Korsten)  book as a resource throughout the series. We will explore how data collection is structured in assistive technology, examples of measurement tools and strategies, and the importance of why you measure data and outcomes.  Understand the important ways in which we can collect information in assistive technology which helps make informed decisions on product selection and/or strategies for implementation of products.

Kelly will share with you real life case studies from individuals on her caseload during assessment and implementation. Build your short and long term data collection strategies and a variety of methods of compiling information and tracking services and AT tool provision. Examples will be plentiful throughout the series, including collecting data from video, reviewing collected artifacts, surveying and creating effective matrices for evaluation.

Come with a particular situation in mind to build a data collection process for, and/or data from a collection process that you’ve already done to share with other attendees. Finally, and most importantly, be prepared to get plenty of ideas on how to add data collection in a practical way to your already busy day.”