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Making Accessible Educational Materials Available to Students Who Need Them
Thursday, March 14, 2024 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am EDT
Presented by Vanessa Lombardo, Training and Learning Manager, Bookshare, an Initiative of Benetech
Sponsored by The Educating All Learners™ Alliance (EALA), An InnovateEDU Project
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Digital content makes learning more portable and interactive, but digital does not always mean accessible. Students who experience difficulty accessing standard text find inaccessible digital materials challenging to navigate. Using accessible materials helps all learners and provides them with equal access to course materials and learning opportunities.
Bookshare is a free, accessible online library that provides accessible educational materials (AEM) to students who qualify. In this session, we discuss the importance of using AEM in your classroom, as well as how Bookshare can help.
This recorded edWebinar is of interest to K-12 teachers and librarians.
About the Presenter
Vanessa Lombardo is the Training and Learning Manager for Bookshare, an Initiative of Benetech. In this current role, she is responsible for providing relevant and engaging training content to educators, parents, and students. Her primary goal is to empower students and educators to use accessible educational materials to improve students’ educational outcomes. She is also an Adjunct Professor of Assistive Technology in the Special Education, Language and Literacy Department of The College of New Jersey, a four-year university. In this role she teaches a pre-service, graduate-level course focused on the exploration of various technology tools and how to best implement them into inclusive classrooms.
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The Educating All Learners Alliance (EALA) is an uncommon coalition of organizations committed to resource sharing and community-building that supports the efforts of the education community to meet the needs of students with disabilities or learning differences. The Alliance represents voices from a diverse range of communities, including disability advocacy, parent, special education, civil rights, and K-12 nonprofit education organizations. EALA leads the development of a Resource Library, Tech Tool Library, events, podcasts, and working groups in order to bring awareness to the challenges and opportunities surrounding students with disabilities in K12 education, and how we can best support them.
