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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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AT Consideration Series: Beyond the Checkbox

AT Consideration Series: Beyond the Checkbox

Looking to strengthen how IEP teams consider assistive technology? Join our new series: The AT Consideration Series: Beyond the Checkbox. Beginning September 17, this FREE series takes a deep dive into the Assistive Technology consideration process, framed around the six steps of the AT Decision-Making Tool.
AT Resource Guide

AT Resource Guide

The AT Resource Guide provides an overview of what AT is, goes through the consideration and assessment processes, discusses various funding options for AT, and outlines how to document AT in an IEP. It helps Ohio educational teams understand their obligations to provide AT devices and services to students with disabilities.
Braille Accessibility in State Assessments Guide

Braille Accessibility in State Assessments Guide

Explore the co-published Braille Accessibility in State Assessments Guide by NCADEMI and AT&AEM Center. This guide helps states, school districts, and assessment vendors build and maintain accessible assessment systems for braille users.
AEM Online Request Portal and Yearly Federal Quota Registration

AEM Online Request Portal and Yearly Federal Quota Registration

Welcome to our one-stop shop for registering eligible legally blind students for Federal Quota funds and requesting accessible materials for any student with a print disability.
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A classroom-wide approach for preschool children starting to use augmentative and alternative communication with core vocabulary. The Tell Me Program focuses on a small set of high frequency words. Using familiar books, such as I Went Walking (included), preschool teams target core words in shared reading, shared writing, and classroom routines. Authors Carole Zangari and Lori Wise included 11 book-specific packets that give step-by-step guidance on teaching 4–6 core words in large-group, small-group, and individual activities. Book packet materials available on included PDF USB drive. Also included in this kit is a GoTalk 4+ communication device.

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Federal Quota

The Federal Quota Program provides specialized educational materials, including textbooks and equipment, to eligible students with visual impairments.

Annually, the AT&AEM Center conducts the Federal Quota Registration of Blind Students in Ohio to identify eligible infants, students, and adults who qualify. Census registration is open the first Monday of January through the end of February.

Submit orders to the AT&AEM Center to access the free supplemental materials for the current and upcoming school year now!

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