AT the Closing the Gap Conference this year, I'll be doing a preconference workshop called "Put Me In Coach!" where we will spend the day talking about how we choose the support strategies that we use in our AT practice.  There's a lot about Coaching, but we'll also be discussing the essential elements of Consultation and Collaboration. I'm particularly interested in how we decide whether to act as a consultant, to collaborate with an educator or family to increase AT implementation or whether a coaching approach is the best option.

Michael Fullan offers a list of assumptions about change and implementation that I have found very useful. Here's a summary of his ten assumptions.

I have been thinking a lot about how we chose the name for this blog site.  It keeps coming up in my work, so I thought I’d tell you about the thought process.  When most people talk about making sure that AT is functional for a student in real world environments, they talk about AT Implementation.  In my own work, I prefer the word Integration.  And there’s a very specific reason for this preference. 

We don’t have time to do the same thing over and over again these days.   One way to make yourself more efficient is to share the work.  Here’s a short summary of some of the ideas I think are important when you begin to think about role release.