Learn to create solutions that facilitate greater independence for people with disabilities and aging adults.
Certificate Requirements
To earn the certificate, attend four core courses and two electives. Courses can be taken individually or as part of the certificate program.
Required Core Courses
(all four courses are required)
Two Electives
(choose any two courses)
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Program Description
Whether it is hearing aids or hands-free devices for cell phones or scooters
that improve mobility, assistive technology includes devices, strategies,
equipment, and practices to maintain, increase or improve the functional
performance or life satisfaction of individuals with disabilities, and even those
without. Environmental access ensures that all people can get the most from
their work, home and community environments, maximizing their potential.
Georgia Tech's new Assistive Technology and Environmental Access
Professional Education Program provides practical knowledge of assistive
technology and environmental accommodations and their applications,
training you to provide high quality service to people with disabilities in
workplace, home, educational, and public environments.
Gain knowledge with real-world applications, hands-on experiences, lectures,
discussions, presentations, and case studies. Best of all, you can put your
knowledge to work immediately.
How You Will Benefit
- - Learn how to immediately work more effectively and help people with disabilities achieve success in their environments
- - Develop expertise in applying assistive technology and accommodation strategies in home, work, educational, and public settings
- - Better identify, evaluate, and prescribe needed assistive technology and environmental accommodations for individuals with disabilities
- - Be on the forefront of assistive technology accommodation strategies, products, applications, and developments
- - Gain a better understanding of how assistive technology and environmental accommodations can better benefit those without disabilities
- - Understand how to create a plan and implement it
- - Build a network of Georgia Tech resource professionals
Who Should Attend
- - 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
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