QIAT Summit 2008

This is a group picture of the participants from the 2008 QIAT summit

    The QIAT Summit 2008 was held June 23 and 24th on the campus of Northwestern College in Roseville, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. There were 36 participants representing 14 states. At last year's summit it was decided to focus on two indicator areas and to begin to develop resource materials that would help to support, explain, and illustrate the quality indicators for assistive technology services.

    The work of the 2008 Summit concentrated on the development of materials in the indicator areas of Implementation and Evaluation of Effectiveness. Participants worked in small groups to develop a guiding document and two stories that illustrate each of the two selected areas. The stories focused on how the quality indicators might help a team plan, implement and review the use of assistive technology. One story focused on a student with low incidence disability and the other on a student with a high incidence disability.

    Each small group shared their products with the large QIAT Summit group. All participants made recommendations and suggestions that would increase the quality of the products. The products will be reviewed by the QIAT leadership team in late September.

And what would a Summit be without colored index cards.