This is an online course that is only available during specifically scheduled dates. Once registered and payment received, the Georgia Tech CATEA office (trainingcore@coa.gatech.edu) will contact you to provide course access instructions.

The course will provide an in-depth examination of workplace accommodation and home modification processes that address the needs of people with functional limitations. The course will focus on describing and implementing the assessment process, including the analysis of clients, environmental factors and identification of barriers. The course will also review assessment products across a broad range of costs and technology levels, focusing on integrating accommodation examples from previous core courses into the assessment process. Multiple case studies will provide students with real world examples of the methods of assessment and types of accommodation used to identify and overcome barriers to access. Students will learn the importance of addressing environmental factors, universal design, compensatory strategies, and common technologies.

• Recognize the importance of assessment for work accommodations and home modifications
• Understand the impact of policy and regulatory legislation on workplace accommodations and home modifications assessments
• Become familiar with the theory and application of workplace accommodation and home modification assessments
• Understand the practical applications of assessing environments and addressing barriers
• Understand differences in assessment instruments and be able to select an instrument that meets the needs of a particular individual and situation
• Understand home/workplace barriers for people with cognitive, motor and sensory disabilities
• Understand the factors impacting the assessment process

• Introduction to workplace and home assessments: definition, purpose, justification, and policy; introduction of team members
• Group activity - Dragnet (collection of information)
• Assessment theory and approaches
• Group activity - Outburst (analysis of person and environment)
• The assessment process, including job analysis and task analysis
• Group activity - Monk (task analysis)
• Group activity - (Reverse) Clue (pulling it all together)
• Wrap up discussion and test

Attendees will each receive a handbook of slides, hard-copy handouts, resources for accommodations, accessible / universal design and assistive technology.

• Claire Yang
• Karen Milchus
• Sarah Endicott
• Scott Haynes
• Traci Swartz

This is a required course for the Workplace Accommodations and Home Modifications Certificate.