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Promoting and reforming
Assistive Technology provision
Emily Steel
Australian Rehabilitation and Assistive
Technology Association (ARATA)
World Federation of Occupational
Therapists (WFOT)
Our members:
65% allied health & engineers
19% suppliers
17% administrators
5% consumers
5% educators & researchers
www.arata.org.au
Practitioners
ConsumersSuppliers
The Australian context
A complicated system of over 100 programs(National Aids and Equipment Reform Alliance Foundation (NAERA), 2011)
Making the case for change
Melbourne Rally (August 2012)www.everyaustraliancounts.com.au
• Research evidence and co-
production with consumers,
referring to the UN CRPD and
ISO9999.
• Good AT service delivery creates
individual solutions integrating
assistive products, environmental
interventions, personal support
using soft technology (practitioner
skills).
• ARATA supports the WHO in GATE
Collaborative advocacy
More than 50 years of collaboration with the WHO:
• research, data collection
• education and awareness raising
• building capacity for health & disability policy and practice
• promoting community based rehabilitation
• contributing to the implementation of the UN CRPD
• supporting the GATE initiative.
You are invited to the
National AT Conference
in Australia
hosted by ARATA and OT
Australia
27 -29 July 2016
The Gold Coast, Queensland
www.arata.org.au/conference