TATN - Texas Assistive Technology Network

Statewide Texas Assistive Technology Network Conference

June 15 - 18, 2010
Region 20 ESC
San Antonio, TX

Come to San Antonio this Summer to experience what assistive technology can offer you, your staff and district regarding accommodations, Responses to Intervention, Universal Design for Learning and more!!

Click here for the conference website

Click here for a conference flyer

contact: Kirk Behnke
(713) 744-6559
kbehnke@esc4.net

Welcome to TATN

Assistive technology enables students with disabilities to access the curriculum, increase independence and participate actively in education and life activities.

What's new?

Assistive Technology Statewide Conference 2010!

Join us in San Antonio this summer for our annual assistive technology conference to learn from national and statewide presenters on technology that can accommodate students’ unique needs. This is the only educationally-based assistive technology conference of its kind in Texas.

The conference will also include an exhibit hall providing the latest information on products. We will post sessions, speakers, exhibitors and a schedule as the details firm up on our conference website.

Conference costs are partially funded through state or federal grants.

Click here for our conference website

Registration is open!

Take advantage of our early bird registration rate of only $65 (Promo code = Early65), which is good until April 1, 2010. Regular registration is $95 and last minute registration is $125.

Click here to register for the conference!

Call for Presenters is now closed

Call for presenters is now closed. If you submitted a paper/proposal, we will be in touch with you by the end of March, if not sooner. If it is accepted we will waive your registration fee.

Call for Exhibitors is now closed

Call for Exhbitors/Vendors is now closed and we have a sold out show! We have filled our 42 spots so if you would like to be put on a waiting list please contact us directly.
Kirk Behnke - kbehnke@esc4.net or
Cecilia Robinson - crobinson@esc4.net

QIAT Survey

The 2008/2009 QIAT Survey results are now posted.

Click here to review the results

The 2009/2010 QIAT Survey

Click here to take the survey

Teaching Literacy to Students with Significant Disabilities

Ten Training Modules created for the Three Low Incidence Disabilities Statewide Leadership Function are now available. Training materials were developed by the Center for Literacy and Disability Studies at the University of N. Carolina at Chapel Hil in collaboration with Region 3.

Click here to go to the Literacy modules

The TATN website is Speech Enabled!

All TATN webpages can now be read to you. Click on the headline above to find out how to access this feature!

Mission

Texas Assistive Technology Network (TATN) is working to ensure that students with disabilities receive assistive technology devices and services when needed to benefit from a free, appropriate public education. The TATN consists of representatives from each of the Texas Education Services Centers, and the Texas Education Agency (TEA). Region 4 Education Service Center (Region 4) in Houston, TX provides statewide leadership for the network.

Through a comprehensive planning process, the TATN has developed a framework for statewide collaboration. Priorities in professional development and technical assistance focus on providing training, products and services that:
- build district capacity in assistive technology knowledge and skills
- promote strategies for building the literacy skills of all students, and
- are aligned with statewide literacy initiatives.

Texas Education Agency's Leadership Functions

Click above to review all Leadership Functions which TEA supports.
Education service centers (ESCs) provide state leadership for special education related functions. The ESCs listed next to the function are considered the Lead ESC. Each lead ESC is responsible for establishing and coordinating a 20-region network for their function. The purpose of the 20-region network is to ensure ongoing communication between ESCs about state-level needs assessment processes, planning, and implementing and evaluating statewide activities.