Assistive Technologies: what is their place in the mainstream market?
27 October 2009
Programme
9.30 Registration and coffee
10.00-10.10: Introduction to KT-EQUAL and the day: Professor Gail Mountain Co-Director KT-EQUAL
10.10- 10.30am: Keynote presentation: The Transformation of Community Equipment Services: Lynne Horn, National Implementation Manager, Transforming Community Equipment Services, CSED Programme, Department of Health
10.30-10. 40: Questions and discussion
10.40 -11.10:
1. Empowering disabled people with information about assistive technology Mr John Mitchell; Inclusion Engineer and Principal, Ergonova
2. Why It Matters to Me Dr Christine Barton MBE; equal opportunities consultant: perspective from a disabled person using assistive technology
11.10-11.30: Coffee
11.30- 12.00: Devices for Dignity: Professor Wendy Tindale, Consultant Clinical Scientist and Scientific Director, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals & Director D4D
12.00-12.30: Why ‘mainstreaming' matters: Ms Maggie Winchcombe, Occupational therapy consultant and adviser to NHS and DH
12.30-1.30: Lunch and networking
1.30 - 2.00: The challenges for research: Professor Paul Chamberlain, Professor of Design, Sheffield Hallam University
2.00 - 2.30: The challenges for industry: Nigel Harrison, CE Kingcraft Limited
2.30 - 300: The challenges for retail: Andrew Stevenson, Sales and Marketing Director, Mangar International
3.00 - 3.20 Revisiting the user perspective tbc, user researcher, The Future Bathrooms Project; Mr Ken Hall, participant in the Future Bathrooms Project
3.20 - 3.45 Discussion
3.45-4.00: Tea and departure
You can find some of the presentations of the workshop to download here.
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