Changing Perspectives on Disability and Technology: Events, Trends and Personal Choices

In this chapter, eight (past-)presidents of the Association for the Advancement of Assistive Technology in Europe (AAATE) reflect on their personal engagement with the technology and disability field. The result is a patchwork of personal contributions, reflecting aspects of the contemporary history of Assistive Technology in its broadest sense, relevant for our collective memory and for those attracted to this field for their professional career.In diesem Kapitel reflektieren acht (ehemalige) Vorsitzende der Association for the Advancement of Assistive Technology in Europe (AAATE) über ihr persönliches Engagement im Bereich Technologie und Behinderung. Das Ergebnis ist ein Sammelsurium persönlicher Beiträge, die Aspekte der gegenwärtigen Geschichte der Assistiven Technologien im weitesten Sinne widerspiegeln, die für unser kollegiales Gedächtnis und für diejenigen relevant sind, die sich in ihrer beruflichen Laufbahn für diesen Bereich interessieren

Tecnologie per l'integrazione scolastica degli allievi con disabilità motorie

Un quadro delle opportunità e dei limiti che gli ausili tecnologici offrono per la partecipazione integrata alla vita scolastica

Towards a global quality framework for assistive technology service delivery: Proceedings of the GREAT Consultation 2019

Assistive technology supports maintenance or improvement of an individual’s functioning and independence, though for people in need the access to assistive products is not always guaranteed. This paper presents a generic quality framework for assistive technology service delivery that can be used independent of the setting, context, legislative framework, or type of technology. Based on available literature and a series of discussions among the authors, a framework was developed. It consists of 7 general quality criteria and four indicators for each of these criteria. The criteria are: accessibility; competence; coordination; efficiency; flexibility; user centeredness, and infrastructure. This framework can be used at a micro level (processes around individual users), meso level (the service delivery scheme or programme) or at a macro level (the whole country). It aims to help identify in an easy way the main strengths and weaknesses of a system or process, and thus guide possible improvements. As a next step in the development of this quality framework the authors propose to organise a global consultancy process to obtain responses from stakeholders across the world and to plan a number of case studies in which the framework is applied to different service delivery systems and processes in different countries