Promoting and reforming

Assistive Technology provision

Emily Steel

Australian Rehabilitation and Assistive

Technology Association (ARATA)

World Federation of Occupational

Therapists (WFOT)

Our members:

65% allied health & engineers

19% suppliers

17% administrators

5% consumers

5% educators & researchers

www.arata.org.au

Practitioners

ConsumersSuppliers

The Australian context

A complicated system of over 100 programs(National Aids and Equipment Reform Alliance Foundation (NAERA), 2011)

Making the case for change

Melbourne Rally (August 2012)www.everyaustraliancounts.com.au

• Research evidence and co-

production with consumers,

referring to the UN CRPD and

ISO9999.

• Good AT service delivery creates

individual solutions integrating

assistive products, environmental

interventions, personal support

using soft technology (practitioner

skills).

• ARATA supports the WHO in GATE

Collaborative advocacy

More than 50 years of collaboration with the WHO:

• research, data collection

• education and awareness raising

• building capacity for health & disability policy and practice

• promoting community based rehabilitation

• contributing to the implementation of the UN CRPD

• supporting the GATE initiative.

You are invited to the

National AT Conference

in Australia

hosted by ARATA and OT

Australia

27 -29 July 2016

The Gold Coast, Queensland

www.arata.org.au/conference