Assistive Technology
Workplace Accommodations and Home Modifications Certificate
With Georgia Tech’s exciting certificate program, Workplace Accommodations and Home Modifications, you will learn to create solutions that facilitate greater independence for people with disabilities and aging adults.
How You Will Benefit
Be more effective on the job:
- Become an expert at applying assistive technology and accommodation strategies in home, work, educational, and public settings
- Learn to identify, evaluate, and prescribe needed assistive technology and environmental accommodations for individuals with disabilities
Expand your knowledge of Assistive Technology:
- Propel yourself to the forefront of accommodation strategies, products, applications, and developments
- Understand how assistive technology and environmental accommodations can better benefit those without disabilities
Develop your professional skills and network:
- Understand how to create a plan and implement it
- Build relationships with Georgia Tech resource professionals
Who Should Participate
- Rehabilitation counselors
- Occupational therapists
- Assistive technology professionals
- Speech-language hearing professionals
- Business professionals working in the building and home retrofitting business
- Human resource professionals within the above areas
- Contractors specializing in assistive technology accommodations
- Any professionals who may require knowledge or practical skills to help individuals with disabilities function more efficiently in the workplace, home, educational, and public environments
Time Requirement
All requirements for a professional certificate must be completed within six years from the date of completion for the first course taken that is applied toward the certificate.
Required Courses
(all four courses are required)
Elective Courses
(four electives are required)
