• Writing a new IEP
Benefits of Using the WATI Process for Education Teams and Students
• Data-driven systematic approach.
• Satisfies the AT consideration mandate of IDEA.
• Encourages a collaborative approach from all stakeholders.
• Prioritizes individualization.
• Facilitates Person-Centered Planning.
• Promotes student self-determination and self-advocacy in the assessment,
selection, and trial use of AT.
Select guides excerpted from the full WATI process are offered as a means
to direct "decision-making teams to consider an individual student's abilities and
difficulties within their environments and their tasks" (Bouck, 2017, p. 32). There
are more than twelve guides to the full WATI process, so the process was reduced
to the following six guides, so during WATI introduction teachers were not
overwhelmed or viewed the process as too complex to learn and use:
• Consideration Guide
• Student Information Guide
• Environmental Observation Guide
• Decision-Making Guide
• Trial Use Guide
