This year, the Association of Assistive Technology Act Programs (ATAP) is ringing in the fourth annual National Assistive Technology (AT) Awareness Day with a few exciting firsts. ATAP worked with the Senate to designate Wednesday, April 6 as this year’s aforementioned celebration of AT. Before we get to ATAP’s awareness efforts, let’s take a refresher […]
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Awareness Day for Assistive Technology
Last year, Congress made a resolution designating March 27, 2019 as the first National Assistive Technology Awareness Day. This year, it fell on March 4 in the midst of Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month. Assistive technology is defined in the Assistive Technology Act, Public Law 105-394, stating: “An assistive technology device is defined as ‘any item, […]
#ATawarenessday
We are so excited to celebrate National Assistive Technology Awareness Day DURING National Assistive Technology Awareness Month IN Disability Awareness Month AND for a lot of us Hoosiers, during another National event that involves basketballs! What an exciting month… it’s crazy… well, some might even call it March Madness! I went around to the team […]