Overview
Come learn about the innovative suite of ACCESS Tools that we are building to help individuals with disabilities find AT solutions, strategies & accommodations needed for working, living, learning and playing. The ACCESS Tools are built upon the firm foundation of the national AT Network Database. The ACCESS Tools are utilizing the best practices in data modeling, machine learning, predictive analytics / algorithms, and crowd sourcing, built upon up-to-date AT information from experts within the AT Community. We will discuss Work ACCESS, ACCESS for Dementia, ACCESS for Aging Well, and the AT Network Database.
Content Disclosure: This session is focused on implementations and case studies of ACCESS Tools, based on work done by the national AT Network Database, to help individuals with disabilities find AT solutions, strategies & accommodations needed for working, living, learning and playing. The project that will be presented at ATIA is funded by a grant from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR). NIDILRR is a Center within the Administration for Community Living (ACL), U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS).There will be limited or no information provided about similar research projects or case studies.
Learning Objectives
- Describe one or more elements of the ACCESS Tools and how they can help determine AT solutions.
- Describe one or more elements of the Work ACCESS Tool and who it can assist in finding accommodations and AT solutions.
- Identify one or more of the AT Network and 2 resources that will assist the AT Community.
Primary & Secondary Strands
Transition and Workplace Accessibility; Research
Target Audience
- Accessibility Professional
- ADA Coordinator
- Administrators
- AT Specialists
- Caregivers
- Consumers/Individuals with Disabilities
- Family Members
- Instructional Technologist
- Occupational Therapists
- Physical Therapists
- Rehab Therapists
- Speech-Language Pathologists
- Special Education Educators
- Transition Coordinator
- Vocational Rehabilitation
Experience Level
Introductory
Primary Life Cycle Addressed
All
Session Delivery Format
In-person presentation with live-stream
Course Schedule
This course was given at the ATIA 2022 Conference on Thursday, Jan 27: 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM (EST)
Continuing Education Credits
For Satisfactory Completion and Continuing Education information, please visit: ATIA Learning Center CEUs
This course is offered for the following CE Provider Credits:
ACVREP; AOTA; IACET
For: 0.10 CEU Units or 1.0 CEU Hours.
ASHA CE Information: Recorded Session
Start date of ASHA CEUs offering: April 14, 2023
End date of ASHA CEUs offering: December 31, 2023
This course was approved by CRCC for CRC CEUs and was included in the ATIA CRC Transition & Workplace Accessibility Series (2023-2024). This series offering was available from March 20, 2023, through March 19, 2024.
Speaker/s:
Carolyn Phillips, M.Ed., CPACC
Center for Inclusive Design & Innovation @ Georgia Tech, Co-Director of CIDI
Biography
Carolyn P. Phillips is internationally recognized in the fields of assistive technology, inclusive design, accessibility and disabilities. Carolyn serves as Co-Director of the Center for Inclusive Design & Innovation (CIDI) at Georgia Tech and Director & Principal Investigator of Tools for Life, Georgia's Assistive Technology (AT) Act Program. She is a frequent keynote speaker at conferences and guest lecturer at universities throughout the globe. Carolyn serves as the Associate Editor for the AT Outcomes and Benefits (ATOB) journal and has published articles in journals, chapters in books in AT and poetry focused on living with disabilities. Carolyn received her undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia, her Master's Degree from the University of Kentucky and is currently pursuing her PhD at Texas Tech University.
Relevant Financial Relationship: Yes
Carolyn Phillips works at Georgia Tech as the Co-Director of the Center for Inclusive Design & Innovation and the Director of Georgia's Tools for Life, the state AT Act. I am also honored to serve as an ATiA Strand Advisor.
Relevant Non-Financial Relationship: Yes
Carolyn Phillips serves on several national AT & AEM committees and advisory councils along with Professional memberships with ATAP and RESNA.
Karen Milchus
CIDI, Georgia Tech., Senior Research Engineer
Biography
Karen Milchus, M.S. in Biomedical Engineering, is a senior research engineer at Georgia Tech. Her research focuses on identifying and providing accommodations to employees and students with disabilities, with a particular focus on computer-based solutions. Her research has included studies on the use and effectiveness of accommodations and universal design in the workplace, development of resources to help people make accommodation choices, studies on how to make science experiments accessible to students with disabilities, and development of training for rehabilitation professionals. Karen was a co-director of the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Workplace Accommodations (Work RERC). Karen has provided assistive technology services to state vocational rehabilitation agencies in Georgia and Wisconsin. She is active in RESNA, an interdisciplinary association for the advancement of rehabilitation and assistive technologies.
Karen is employed by the Georgia Institute of Technology and her current research is funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She has a non-financial relationship with RESNA, as a member of their Research Committee.
Relevant Financial Relationship: Yes
Karen Milchus is employed by the Center for Inclusive Design and Innovation at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The project that will be presented at ATIA is funded by a grant from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR). NIDILRR is a Center within the Administration for Community Living (ACL), U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Relevant Non-Financial Relationship: Yes
She has a non-financial relationship with RESNA, as a member of their Research Committee.