OTea Time!: Assistive Technology Seminar Day!

Fruit, Tea, Water (later chex mix was added to the table)

Cookies, Brownie Brittle, Cupcakes, Donuts, M&Ms,
Soapilla Cheesecake, Peanut Butter Cereal Bars, and Coffee

Today, July 17th, was AT Seminar Day! It was a long day, but it was a great day! I had tons of fun! So, the event lasted from 9am-4pm. Several students from the program brought snacks for the vendors and attendees to munch on! For lunch, we were provided sandwiches from McAlister's Deli. We were broken into 6 groups with 19 students each. There were roughly 16 vendors give or take. Some were set up in the lobby of the building and others were in different classrooms or conference rooms throughout the building. In the lobby, there were also small contests that we could compete in to win a gift card prize (who could put a sock on with the sock aid the fastest, who could write their name most legibly with a writing aid, who could type a selected sentence with a typing stick the fastest, who could button two buttons of a button-up shirt with a button hook the fastest, who could adjust the leg rests to the proper height quickest and on first try, and who could adjust the breaks the fastest). I won the sock aid contest! My prize was a sonic gift card. Also, during the seminar, I learned how to pop a wheelie (though not very good) and how to recover from a wheelchair fall (i.e., how to pull yourself back upright after tipping backward in a wheelchair). Other than that, there isn't much else to say about the day. I have included tons of pics below. Enjoy! Keep in mind not every item at the seminar is pictured below. I also took a couple of videos, but since I recorded them on my phone the quality is crap. One of the cooler products that I don't have pictured is the Tobii Dynavox I-15. This product is a communication device that uses eye gaze. I got to test it out and it was really awesome. The only thing is that after a period of time it seemed to miscalibrate what I was looking at. It was unfortunate because the vendor was going to record me using the device but then it started acting up -- bummer.