Inclusive TLC will be exhibiting at the following Conferences:

 

Please come along and see us if you get the opportunity to attend any of these excellent events

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

American special educators have a choice of three national conferences each year where they can review all that is new in assistive technology. Assistive technology distributors, developers, writers, and software engineers use these events as their major international meeting place.

 

(For our many British readers I should explain that American conferences have roughly the same mix of seminars and exhibition space as British exhibitions. The vocabulary is different: exhibitors are vendors and their exhibition stand is called a booth and is located in the exhibit hall or vendor hall. Also, because everyone flies, the booths are typically hung with lightweight display materials and are made of curtains and curtain poles rather than the familiar UK "shell scheme".)

 

The three key assistive technology conferences typically run from Wednesday to Saturday and often have a "pre-conference" with more meetings and seminars on the Monday and Tuesday. Between them they provide a conference in October, January and March and cover the West Coast, the Mid-West and the South East. As well as being in different parts of the country at different times of year, the events are slightly different in character.

 

Closing the Gap (often called "CTG") takes place in Minneapolis each October. There is an emphasis on learning difficulties and Don Johnston and IntelliTools take this Conference very seriously. But so do Mayer Johnson and, of course, AbleNet who are based in Minneapolis. This is probably the best "general purpose" assistive technology conference and a must for all Assistive Technology companies and their CEOs. There are more than two thousand delegates who pack more than 150 seminars, workshops and presentations during the conference.

 

The ATIA (Assistive Technology Industry Association) conference takes place each January in Orlando, Florida. It is much newer and still smaller than the other events but attracts all of the major vendors including the fifty-eight members of the Assistive Technology Industry Association. This year ATIA should attract 1,000 delegates.

 

Each March, CSUN (don't ask) fills two huge hotels so close to Los Angeles airport that planes pass the hotels on both sides to land on their choice of LAX's four runways. CSUN has the strongest presence of blind and low vision vendors. Stevie Wonder is a frequent visitor, and the Marriott turfs a fresh lawn each year to service the dozens of "seeing eye" dogs for the many blind exhibitors and delegates. But all aspects of assistive technology are well covered and this is the biggest conference with more than 4,000 delegates attending.

 

Inclusive is not exhibiting at CSUN in 2007.