Michele Bishop is an Assistive Technology Specialist with over 25 years experience working with children with physical disabilities and who use augmentative communication. Michele as focused her career on integrating the various technologies including the wheelchair to give students access to computers, augmentative communication devices, phones, tablets, and now, smart home technology. Prior to that she began her career as a special education classroom teacher working in multi-disciplinary classrooms. She has taught children from the ages of 3 through 22 years of age. Michele has worked for a non-public school specializing in children using assistive technology and augmentative communication in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has been a National Trainer for Intellitools, and has had a private practice serving children and their school teams in the supports and strategies for children with physical disabilities. She is a nationally known speaker at conferences and has presented at several national conferences on teaching strategies and the development of support materials for children who use auditory scanning.
Education:
B.S. Ed.Presenter Position:
Educator and TrainerInstitution:
Genesys Assistive Technology SolutionsFinancial Disclosure:
Michele works for Adaptive Switch Labs, Inc, as part of her Genesys employment. She will not be highlighting any of their products in this workshop, however, as she is teaching this purely from her own experiences (which she still does have from a private consulting practice unrelated to her employment) past and current as an Assistive Technology Specialist and Special Ed. Teacher.
