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State of the Science Conference
September 15-16, 2005
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- Opinion: Did accommodations make subject feel more independent?
- Opinion: Did accommodations make subject (in his/her opinion) appear more independent to those around
- Opinion: Did subject feel that employment supervisors and coworkers were supportive of the assistive technology provided to them?
- Opinion: Subject was satisfied with the recommended accommodations
- Early conclusions
- Early conclusions, cont.
- Early conclusions, cont.
- Early conclusions, cont.
- Early conclusions, cont.
Opinion: Did accommodations make subject feel more independent?
- Strongly agree - 62%
- Agree - 8%
- Neutral - 4%
- No response - 27%
Opinion: Did accommodations make subject (in his/her opinion) appear more
independent to those around
Strongly agree - 35%
Agree - 23%
Neutral - 12%
Disagree - 4%
No opinion - 27%
Opinion: Did subject feel that employment supervisors and coworkers were supportive
of the assistive technology provided to them?
Strongly agree - 23%
Agree - 19%
Neutral - 12%
Disagree - 8%
Strongly disagree - 8%
No opinion - 31%
Opinion: Subject was satisfied with the recommended accommodations
Strongly agree - 46%
Agree - 12%
Neutral - 4%
Disagree - 8%
Strongly disagree - 4%
No opinion - 27%
Early conclusions
Those people who were employed at the time of the assessment were
being accommodated at their current job, or were returning to jobs they had
before they became disabled
Persons who did not use accommodations prior to assessment by Georgia
Tech were generally people who had a newly acquired disability – no accommodations
had previously been needed
Early conclusions, cont.
Impact of timing in receiving accommodations
27% of subjects described a loop/Catch 22 situation: they couldn’t
get a job without accommodations, but accommodations would not be provided until
a job was secured
General opinion was that there is a lot of technology available and
plenty of people to recommend what might be appropriate for a particular situation,
but there are few people available to set things up and to reconfigure equipment
in the event upgrades are made, and there are even fewer resources that provide
ongoing support and/or maintenance – much of the technology reported abandoned
did not work with newer technology, such as a computer with a different operating
system
Early conclusions, cont.
Many of the accommodations still in use are furniture or workstation
related – electronic technology, such as computers, has become outdated
or obsolete
Many of the accommodations implemented independently are similar to
accommodations implemented for employment – but in a different location,
such as a home
Early conclusions, cont.
Accommodations that didn’t work were generally inefficient to
use, or not suited for the job
Accommodations used for purposes other than the original intent were
often used for personal reasons
Early conclusions, cont.
- The opinion of the majority of subjects was that:
- The accommodations made them feel more independent
- They appeared more independent to those around them
- That employment supervisors and coworkers were generally supportive
of the assistive technology in use, and
- That they were satisfied with their accommodations
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