The final assistive technology course in my PhD program was EDSE 649 Advanced Clinical Psycho Educational Assessment.  This course raised my awareness of many aspects surrounding assistive technology. From learning how to evaluate toys as to their usefulness with helping students with special needs develop skills, access knowledge and provide a gateway to their environments; to considering prerequisite skills needed before one can utilize technology and other objects; to investigating assessment packages created by others such as Stages by Madalaine Pugliese, to spending two months exploring the needs of a relatively young man who had lost the ability to communicate easily and to use his limbs to complete simple daily activities in developing a comprehensive assessment of his strengths, needs, and possible solutions were a few of the learning experiences which provided opportunities to become more enlightened about the many aspects of assessment for assistive technology.

As Madalaine Pugliese pointed out, 

“Alternate assessment is not an event, it is a journey!"