T-TAP: Strategies: Assistive Technology

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	Topic: Using JAN Presenter: The Job Accommodation Network

	Topic: Job Accommodation Network's Approach to Reasonable Accommodations Presenter: Mandy Gamble and Tracie Saab Job Accommodation Network

The availability and use of assistive technology (AT) enhances the opportunities of people with disabilities for equal access to their communities, home, and employment. The use of AT can impact a person’s mobility, communication, production, integration and participation, which in turn positively influences functioning and quality of life.

The National Council on Disability (NCD) states “In an ideal climate, no person with a disability should be denied the opportunity to obtain assistive technology and transfer its inherent potential into viable, life-fulfilling endeavors.” Among working-age people, technology promotes personal independence and better work outcomes. According to a NCD study of people who received assistive technology:

- 62% of working-age people reduced their dependence on their families;

- 58% reduced their need for paid personal assistance.

- 90% of employed people said that they could work better or faster;83% reported that they earned more money.

Source: Galvin & Langton (1997).
Survey: NCD, 1993

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