Accessibility is the Key to Unlocking Potential

At the Assistive Technology & Accessible Educational Materials (AT&AEM) Center, we are committed to ensuring access for all people with disabilities. The center promotes accessibility and personalization, creates and disseminates accessible materials and offers specialized training and technical assistance

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Assistive Technology Internet Modules (ATIM)

Learn about assistive technology through online learning modules on a broad range of topics for educators, professionals, families, persons with disabilities, and others.

SIFTS

Explore SIFTS (Student Inventory for Technology Supports), a new OCALI tool to support teams through the AT feature matching process.

OCALICONline Registration

Registration is now open for the nation’s premier autism and disabilities conference. Nov. 11-13, 2020.

Request AEM

Need alternate format materials for your student such as braille, large print, audio, or digital text? Let us help by submitting your requests here to the AT&AEM Center.

Learn With the AT&AEM Center

ATIM Graduate Credit

Earn graduate credit - ATIM makes it easy. ATIM graduate credit courses are self-paced take place entirely online. No face-to-face meetings are required.

Browse Our Expansive Course Catalog

Braille Training Grant

The BEST Grant is a statewide project of professional development and technical assistance dedicated to braille literacy, braille instruction, braille materials, and braille technology in Ohio schools.

Learn More About The BEST Grant

Federal Quota

Submit orders now for the 20/21 school year.

Annually, the AT&AEM Center conducts the federal Quota Registration of Blind Students in Ohio to identify eligible infants, students, and adults who qualify for free textbooks and other hands-on learning materials. Districts can make requests to the AT&AEM Center to access the free materials.

Learn more about the Federal Quota

To ensure delivery of materials during school-building closures, please ensure the address on file with the AT&AEM Center is currently accepting deliveries. If your building is closed to deliveries, please add and choose the deliverable shipping address to your online AT&AEM Materials Request portal. If you need assistance, please contact Judy Siens or Kelly Houston.

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iPad with Low Vision and Blindness apps (Find Item, “iPad”): This month’s featured app suite offers solutions for individuals with low vision and/or blindness including access to text through text-to-speech, large font, photo, video and text magnification, OCR, color contrast and highlighting, and text-to-braille. In addition to reading support, there are a number of tools to maximize visual access to math tools including talking and large print calculators, measuring tools and math facts. There are also apps for money, object and color identification, GPS mapping tools, barcode scanners to read labels and supports to learn Voice Over and braille.

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