Wink Harner, Assistive Technology Consultant, The Foreign Type
Disability Area: Topic Area:
Length of Session (in hours): 2-hr
Format: Lab
Expertise Level: All Levels
Type of session: Not provided
Summary of Session
A hands-on demonstration and practice on Dragon Naturally Speaking from initial training, through dictation practice to program operation by command.
Abstract
This presentation and workshop will offer both new and experienced users the groundwork on setting up and using Dragon Naturally Speaking for single users as well as Adaptive Technology Lab configurations for multiple users (i.e., how to handle multiple users). From basic training to hands-on practice dictating in Microsoft word, emails and filling in PDF forms by voice, to using Dragon NS commands en lieu of a mouse. Links to training manuals, User Guide and additional training will be available in this workshop.Participants are encouraged to bring their own headset mic.
Kepoints
Basic Training
Practice Dictating
Mouseless computer operation
Speaker Bio(s)
Wink Harner
Wink Harner. BA, ABD - Has been an active member of ATHEN for 25 years and served for nearly a decade on the ATHEN Executive Board as Member-At-Large. Wink was invited as the keynote speaker for the 2019 Texas AHEAD conference and has been a keynote speaker at AZTAP in Arizona. She is the former director of disability services at Mesa Community College in Arizona, the Adaptive Technology Specialist for the DR office at Southern Oregon University. She currently works in freelance adaptive technology consulting and provides specialized alternative text conversions in math, sciences and foreign languages. She has been a professor of multiple languages for more than 25 years having completed her doctoral studies in Spanish, Portuguese, & French. Since August 2016, Wink developed and taught the adaptive technology in higher education core course for CUNY's Masters of Science in Disability Studies Program. In 2023 she developed a course in professional development for AHEAD in adaptive technology in higher education. She has presented at adaptive technology conferences for decades. For fun, Wink plays trombone in a wind symphony and a jazz band, as well as performing as a professional storyteller with the Portland Storytellers Guild.