{"id":2748,"date":"2014-12-15T10:14:16","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T15:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=2748"},"modified":"2014-12-15T10:14:16","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T15:14:16","slug":"at-programs-baseline-survey-results-121514","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=2748","title":{"rendered":"AT Programs &#8211; Baseline Survey Results, 12\/15\/14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Center on Effective Rehabilitation Technology service delivery (CERT) conducted a baseline survey of Statewide AT Act Programs in 2010, to assess and establish the state-of-practice in RT\/AT service delivery, with responses from almost 70% of programs.\u00a0 Data from the survey was used to establish a baseline of practice throughout the country, assist with identifying benchmarks to evaluate the programs CERT selects for in-depth study, and pinpoint areas for exploration through case studies.<\/p>\n<p>The key findings from the first survey were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Consumers Served:<\/strong> Persons with multiple disabilities (89%) and sensory impairments (68%) received the highest proportion of RT\/AT services.\u00a0 People with TBI, cognitive disabilities, and psychosocial disabilities remain least served in terms of RT\/AT services.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Consumer Involvement: <\/strong>90% of responding programs stated that clients are involved in making decisions about the type of RT\/AT provided.\u00a0 However, 76% stated that client knowledge of RT\/AT limits their involvement with procurement of devices.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Perceived gaps in service delivery: <\/strong>Top perceived gaps in providing RT\/AT services included (i) understanding user perspectives on attitudes about, and comfort with, RT\/AT (ii) assessing fit between RT\/AT and the environment of use, and (iii) availability for supports, assistance, accommodations and maintenance for successful use.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Matching Person and Technology: <\/strong>The following requirements of RT\/AT solutions are matched with consumer resources: Most often (&gt; 50%): Physical, sensory, and cognitive demands for selected RT\/AT; Less often (20-50%): Expense, support services and maintenance, training, and environments; Least often (&lt; 20%): Method of service delivery.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More survey findings can be accessed at: <a href=\"http:\/\/bbi.syr.edu\/_assets\/docs\/projects\/cert\/cert_prelim_finding_baseline.pdf\">http:\/\/bbi.syr.edu\/_assets\/docs\/projects\/cert\/cert_prelim_finding_baseline.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=149587675112835\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=2748\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Center on Effective Rehabilitation Technology service delivery (CERT) conducted a baseline survey of Statewide AT Act Programs in 2010, to assess and establish the state-of-practice in RT\/AT service delivery, with responses from almost 70% of programs.\u00a0 Data from the survey was used to establish a baseline of practice throughout the country, assist with identifying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,27,5,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2749,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions\/2749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}