Our Consultants and Experts
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Ron Stewart - AltFormat Production Systems and Training
Ron Stewart currently works in our community in a variety of voluntary capacities; Technology Advisor to AHEAD (Association on Higher Education and Disability), Chairs the AHEAD E-Text Solutions Group and is member of the NIMAS Board. In 2001 Ron was the driving force in the founding of the Access Technologist Higher Education Network (athenpro.org), and serves as the organizations President. In 2006 Ron left Oregon State University after fifteen years to take the position of VP for Operations for Dolphin Computer Access. In that capacity he led a variety of efforts on an international level on curricular access for students with print related disabilities. Currently Ron is the Managing Consultant for AltFormat Solutions; a consulting and training organization focusing on solutions to Curricular Access and consults with a variety of groups and companies.
Ron was the recipient of the AHEAD Ron Blosser Award in 2007. The Blosser Award is a distinguished service award and was given for Ron's work in regards to his leadership and work in promoting and developing Access Technologies and Curricular Access within Postsecondary Education.
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Susan Christiansen - Braille Production and Training
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Lucia Hasty - Tactile Graphics Production and Training
Lucia Hasty taught students with disabilities for 17 years, in residential and public school programs. She held administrative positions in special education for 18 years, including coordinating a curriculum development project, a recreational facility for children and adults with disabilities, and Colorado's state instructional materials center for students with vision disabilities. Retired from education, she is a consultant, presenting workshops and developing training materials for a variety of audiences.
Lucia currently serves as chair of the tactile graphics committee of Braille Authority of North America (BANA), BANA/Canadian Braille Authority Joint Committee on Tactile Graphics (co-chair), and on International Council on English Braille tactile graphics committee. She is co-author of the new braille code for tactile graphics, and numerous technical articles on the topic. She taught higher education courses as adjunct faculty and serves on the AFB Solutions Forum.
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Steve Noble - Math and Science Accessibility
Steve Noble is a nationally recognized leader in the field of assistive technology and policy, with a core focus in education accessibility and advocacy for students with disabilities. Currently working as an independent Public Policy and Accessibility Consultant, he has previously served as Director of Accessibility Policy for Design Science, Inc., where he promoted national education policy and technology development efforts to make math content accessible to students with disabilities. Mr. Noble has also served as Policy Analyst for the Kentucky Assistive Technology Service Network at the Kentucky Office for the Blind (part of the Kentucky Education Cabinet), as well as Manager of Product Development at the national headquarters of Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic in Princeton, New Jersey, where he conducted national consumer research studies to support the development of the new digital talking book technology, and also directed the development of studies conducted by the Gallup Organization.
Steve is the Immediate Past President of the Learning Disabilities Association of Kentucky, and additionally serves on the national Board of Directors for the Learning Disabilities Association of America, as well as the Board of Directors for the Kentucky Unit of Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, holding the office of Secretary. Mr. Noble serves as Editor-in-Chief for the journal Information Technology and Disabilities, and is a member of the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS) Standards Board. Mr. Noble was the principal author of Kentucky?s two accessible textbook laws, the Kentucky Accessible Textbook Act of 2002 (Senate Bill 243, now codified as KRS 156.027) and the Kentucky Postsecondary Textbook Accessibility Act of 2003 (Senate Bill 85, now codified as KRS 164.477).
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Our Partners
Digilife Media www.digilifemedia.biz
Digilife Media converts hardcopy and inaccessible digital versions of text based materials into accessible digital alternative formats for use by students and other individuals with print impairments and related disabilities. In essence, anyone who needs hard copy text, or even electronic files, adapted to a more suitable format for use by individuals with disabilities. Digilife Media also provides consultation and training for institutions and organizations desiring to develop their own in-house production capacities or looking to improve already existing programs. Digilife also develops and supports computer software designed to improve and increase the efficiency of such processes.
Paper Music www.papermusic.org
Paper Music is a social entrepreneurship dedicated to providing music from any source to musicians of any disability. Although we focus primarily on braille and enlarged music for the blind and visually-impaired, we are always open to new challenges.
Braille production for blind music students around the world: Paper Music has provided braille materials for many educational institutions, including Leeds UK, IMH Malaysia, New England Conservatory, Saginaw ISD, University of the Pacific, University of New Mexico, Boston Latin School, Catholic University of America, and many other private and public entities around the world.
On-site training: If your organization is seeking to develop the technologies for local braille production, we can train you. Using various computer programs and techniques, we teach educators and accessibilities advisors how to produce braille on-site, greatly reducing the amount of time and the cost of braille transcription. This training includes an overview of blindness and low-vision and techniques for mutual communication and education between visually-impaired musicians and their sighted colleagues and advisors.
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