AHEAD 2006: ATHEN Presentations

Next week is the annual meeting of the Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD) - the primary professional organization for those of us who work in the field of providing services for college and university students with disabilities. ATHEN will be well represented at the conference both in attendance and presentation. Here is a list of sessions by ATHEN members - note that several of these are non-technology specific which lends support to the fact that you do not have to be a techie per-se to join and enjoy the benefits of ATHEN. Folks asterixed [*] are not ATHEN members - but we're working on them.

• Pre-Conference #1: New Directions for Campus Accessibility: The AHEAD Institute on E-Text Production
  Ron Stewart, Oregon State University (ATHEN President)
  Mary Cheng, California State University, East Bay
  Gaeir Dietrich, High Tech Center Training Unit
  Khaki Wunderlich, Tompkins Corland Community College
  Dann Berkowitz, Boston University
  
• Pre-Conference #5: Designing and Managing an Effective Assistive Technology Program for Your Campus
  James Bailey, University of Oregon
  
• Concurrent Session #1.6 DAISY: A Stylish Marriage of Audio and Navigation
  Gaeir Dietrich, High Tech Center Training Unit
  
• Concurrent Session #1.7 Students with Disabilities: The Work and School Transition
  Eileen Berger, Harvard University (ATHEN Treasurer)
  * Stephen Shore, Boston University
  
• Concurrent Session #2.6 E-text Roundtable
  * Sam Goodin, University of Michigan
  * Rick Bowes, Thomson Publishing
  * Elizabeth A. Delfs, Pearson Education Inc
  Gaeir Dietrich, High Tech Center Training Unit
  * George Kersher, Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic
  Ron Stewart, Oregon State University
  Khaki Wunderlich, Tompkins Cortland Community College
  
• Concurrent Session #3.3 Creating Accessible PDF Documents Using Adobe Acrobat and MS Office
  Sean Keegan, High Tech Center Training Unit (ATHEN webmaster)
  
• Concurrent Session #3.5 The Basics of Captioning: Videos, Classes, and CART
  * Kathy Furlan, Rapidtext, Inc.
  Gaier Deitrich, High Tech Center Training Unit
  
• Concurrent Session #3.10 Current State of Practice in Distance Education
  Laurie Vasquez, Santa Barbara City College (ATHEN Secretary)
  Ron Stewart, Oregon State University
  Lyla Crawford, Program Coordinator for DO-IT, Washington
  
• Concurrent Session #4.6 Low-Vision Students: Serving the Needs of a Unique Population
  Dann Berkowitz, Boston University
  
• Poster Session #1 - ACCESS to Postsecondary Education through Universal Design for Learning
  Marla C. Roll, ACCESS Project, Colorado State University
  * Cathy Schelly, ACCESS Project, Colorado State University
  
• Symposia #6 - Access Technologies for Electronic Materials
  Presenters: James Bailey, University of Oregon; *Paul Thompson, Dolphin; *Jackie Wheeler, Kurzweil Education; *Annemarie Cooke, RFB&D
  Facilitator: Ron Stewart, AHEAD Technology Advisor
  
• Symposia #16 - The Effective Management and Production of Accessible Electronic Materials
  Presenters: *Paul Thompson, Dolphin Audio Publishing; Sean Keegan, High Tech Center Training Unit for the California Community Colleges; Representatives from the Alternative Format Production Center (AFPC), Alternative Materials Access Center (AMAC), High Tech Center Training Unit (HTCTU), and Center for Accessible Media (CAM)
  Facilitator: Ron Stewart, AHEAD Technology Advisor