Closing The Gap - Top Highlight for Me

This year's Closing The Gap has got to be the best one that I have ever attended. Maybe it is because I have more experience and know more people, but there was wonderful networking, sharing, and many discussions about how to make Assistive Technology more effective in our respective states. I will make more comments on this in later posts.

My highlight was presenting on "Creating Early Literacy and Readiness Activities with Clicker 5." The room was packed, and there was a great deal of enthusiasm about using Clicker 5. In fact, people were talking about it everywhere!

John Crick designed a brilliant promotion for the introduction of Clicker Paint, due to be released in January 2007. It is a switch-accessible paint program with a simple interface and is also quite powerful. On Wednesday night bright red lanyards were handed out to attendees entering the hall. Each one had a sticker with 4 bright paint splashes. Each person who found his or her exactly matching set of colors received a $100 gift certificate for Crick software. It was lots of fun, encouraged conversations between participants, and definitely kept everyone's attention on Clicker!

There is so much more to talk about in posts over the next few days.