Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Device Curriculum In 2007, SETBC struck a committee to develop a comprehensive Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Device Curriculum which was intended to be the…
SET-BC Region 1 (Vancouver Island) and SET-BC Provincial Centre recently partnered with Bridges Canada to host two full day workshops entitled, “Sorting Through Multimedia to Support Literacy and Numeracy.” The…
The final SET-BC Provincial Vision Workshop, also known as the “Vision Road Show”, was recently hosted by the Richmond school district. It is the last of a two year series…
On Tuesday, April 19th, the SET-BC Provincial Centre hosted a Clicker Talking Books Camp for students from around the lower mainland. This half-day “camp” was one of the SET-BC student…
Educators and Speech Language Pathologists work in collaboration with SET-BC consultants to select and implement a variety of augmentative and alternative communication technologies with students in British Columbia classrooms. However,…
SET-BC works closely with Canadian Educational and Assistive Technology Vendor Bridges Canada. Recently, Cindi Johnston (our BC sales consultant for Bridges) hosted Betsy Walker from TobiiATI in a workshop for…
The SET-BC Vision Focus Group has been facilitating Vision Road Show Workshops across the province for the past two school years. “Reading and Writing Strategies for Students with Visual Impairments”,…
Throughout the 2010-2011 school year SET-BC has focused on developing strategies for increasing assistive technology implementation in the classroom. One of strategies has been to develop and host various Student…
On March 4th the Inter-District Augmentative and Alternative Communication group, with representatives from the Langley, Surrey, Delta, Richmond and Vancouver school districts, organized an AAC Show and Share event to…
In hopes of learning new ways technology can assist students with daily organization, SET-BC is collaborating with the Provincial Outreach Program for Autism Spectrum Disorders on an iPod Touch student…
On January 18th, the lower mainland SET-BC consultants hosted their annual “District Partner Day.” SET-BC District Partners are BC educators who work in collaboration with SET-BC to support acceptance of…
SET-BC supports students who have difficulties with verbal communication and use voice output devices to augment their speech. Consultants work in collaboration with speech language pathologists, teachers, and educational assistants…
Although they represent less than 1% of the student population in the Central Okanagan School District, Cool Communicators still managed to throw one great holiday party in Kelowna! On December…
On October 21st, three SET-BC regional consultants, Dave Rathwell, Vicky Midtdal and Chris Marshall, all members of our Vision Interest Group, presented “Low Vision Technology” at the BC Vision Teachers…
Cool Communicators Camp participation continued to grow in the summer of 2010. There were 47 Cool Communicators who participated this summer at the 3 BC Lions Easter Seals camps in…
SET-BC is a Ministry of Education Provincial Outreach Program
