Assistive Technology Consultant
I'm Marcel Verstraete, an assistive technology consultant specializing in students with physical and orthopedic impairments, from birth to age 26, helping them access the curriculum.
I specialize in assistive technology for students with physical and orthopedic impairments, from birth through age 26, supporting learners at every stage from early intervention through K–12 and on to post-secondary transition. I work alongside students, families, teachers, and IEP teams to find, trial, and implement the tools that help each student access the curriculum.
Away from that work, I run Nomad Detroit Coffee, a small-batch roasting company.
At home I answer to three cats: Carrot, Pickle, and Cheddar. They supervise every roast and most of my paperwork.
Students Birth–26
Assistive technology that helps students with physical and orthopedic impairments access the curriculum. I work with school teams on AT consideration and decision-making, trials of alternative access methods like switch use and eye gaze, implementation planning and data collection, and the training and coaching that build district capacity.
On the side · Roastery
A small-batch coffee roasting company. Carefully sourced beans, roasted in Detroit so every bag goes out fresh. See what's in the roaster at detroit.coffee.