Teaching · Related Services

Match the student’s reliable movements to a way in.

Mark what the student can do reliably and what has been tried. The summary lists the access features worth trying for those movements, and which of them nobody has tried yet.

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$12one-time · every device you sign in on
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Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Or get it in the Related Services toolkit, $99 for 152 items.

The access profile

One record per student, updated as trials go. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Related Services$12 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
A list of access features matched to the student’s reliable movements, trials and results so far, and what to try or find out next.
Who it is for
Assistive technology specialists, school occupational and physical therapists, and special education teachers.
Format
Browser organizer. One saved record per student; printed with its summary or as a blank form; CSV of trials; export and import a file.
Access
$12 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Related Services toolkit ($99) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Related Services space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
more than one way in
Drawn for this page. A keyboard and mouse are one way to use a computer; the organizer matches a student’s reliable movements to the others.

How to use it

  1. Start with the tasks the student must do on the computer, not the device.
  2. Mark movements from watching across a day; use not known rather than guessing.
  3. Note what goes wrong now, in plain words.
  4. Try the cheapest matched features first: built-in settings cost nothing.
  5. Log each trial and its result, then update the profile.

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What the organizer covers

Feature matching

Matching what a student can do to the features of an access method is the usual starting point in assistive technology work. It narrows the options; a trial in the student’s real tasks decides.

Built in first

Every major operating system includes sticky keys, slow keys, pointer and on-screen keyboard settings. They cost nothing and are worth trying before buying hardware.

What it is not

The organizer is not a motor or medical assessment and does not choose a device. Seating and positioning come first: access changes when the student is well supported.

Sources

  1. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, 34 CFR 300.5, 300.6 and 300.324(a)(2)(v): assistive technology devices, services and consideration.
  2. Cook, A. M., Polgar, J. M., and Encarnação, P. Assistive Technologies: Principles and Practice (5th ed.). Elsevier, 2020: chapters on control interfaces.
  3. Zabala, J. The SETT Framework (Student, Environments, Tasks, Tools) for assistive technology decisions (2005).
  4. Apple, Google and Microsoft accessibility documentation for keyboard, pointer and switch settings.

The example student and trials are made up. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.