{"id":2157,"date":"2017-01-24T11:22:12","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T19:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/?p=2157"},"modified":"2017-01-24T08:50:19","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T16:50:19","slug":"atia-conference-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/atia-conference-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"ATIA Conference 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Emily.current.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1839 \" src=\"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Emily.current-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Emily.current\" width=\"85\" height=\"85\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Emily.current-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Emily.current-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Emily.current-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Emily.current.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 85px) 100vw, 85px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Written by: Emily Flynn, Ability Tools Information and Advocacy Specialist<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This last week I had the amazing opportunity to attend the Assistive Technology Industry Association Conference (ATIA) 2017 in Orlando Florida.<a href=\"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ATIA-Name-tag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2168 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ATIA-Name-tag-e1485276534204-257x300.jpg\" alt=\"ATIA Name tag stating my nam, Emily Flynn, my organization and where I am from \" width=\"257\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ATIA-Name-tag-e1485276534204-257x300.jpg 257w, https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ATIA-Name-tag-e1485276534204-878x1024.jpg 878w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This conference is a very large conference where special education staff, assistive technology specialist, medical professionals, rehabilitation counselors, and technology vendors all come together to share knowledge and learn. Being an assistive technology generalist I was invited to attend any educational sessions and workshops I was interested in. The session and workshops covered a wide variety of topics including\u00a0Accessibility, Adult Living and Workplace, Assistive Technology for Improved Function (ATIF), Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Core Standards: K-12, Education\/Learning, Everyday Technology, Leadership, Research, and Sensory Impairment. With my limited time there I tried my best to make sure I took at least one educational session in each topic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ATIA_2017_Conference.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2161 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ATIA_2017_Conference-1024x301.png\" alt=\"ATIA 2017 conference photo featuring photos of speakers, participants, and the exhibit hall. \" width=\"700\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ATIA_2017_Conference-1024x301.png 1024w, https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ATIA_2017_Conference-300x88.png 300w, https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/ATIA_2017_Conference.png 1170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On top of the educational sessions they also offered a very large exhibit area where they had more than 100 vendors. These vendors were available to provide information and demonstration about their devices and services. I was able to speak with vendors about the products available and check out the new and exciting devices. The other benefit of having all these vendors under one roof is I was able to make connections and relationships with vendors that Ability Tools can feature in upcoming training&#8217;s. For more information on ATIA and their annual conference check out their website at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atia.org\/\u00a0\">https:\/\/www.atia.org\/\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by: Emily Flynn, Ability Tools Information and Advocacy Specialist &nbsp; This last week I had the amazing opportunity to attend the Assistive Technology Industry Association Conference (ATIA) 2017 in Orlando Florida. This conference is a very large conference where special education staff, assistive technology specialist, medical professionals, rehabilitation counselors, and technology vendors all come&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,1],"tags":[9,79,23,76],"class_list":["post-2157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-uncategorized","tag-advocacy","tag-events","tag-learning","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2157"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2160,"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions\/2160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abilitytools.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}