ERIC Number: ED593653
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2013
Pages: 8
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Infinity Communication Access Lab Recognized with 2012 Product Utilization Support and Help (PUSH) Award. FOCUS Technical Brief No. 36
Leahy, James A.; Chau, Tom
SEDL
This "FOCUS Technical Brief" describes the exemplary knowledge translation work of the winner of the Center on KT4TT's 2012 PUSH Award. The recipient, the Infinity Communication Access Lab, is a partnership between Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital and the Toronto District School Board in Toronto, Canada. The lab aims to discover person-centered access solutions and to ensure that those solutions are transferred into environments true to where children live and learn. Dr. Tom Chau oversees the lab, which serves 130 public school students with a range of developmental conditions. [This report was published by SEDL's Disability Research to Practice Program.]
Descriptors: Technology Transfer, Developmental Disabilities, Hospitals, Boards of Education, Public Schools, Awards, Accessibility (for Disabled), Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Students with Disabilities, Needs Assessment, Communities of Practice, Program Descriptions, Partnerships in Education
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Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (ED/OSERS)
Authoring Institution: SEDL; University at Buffalo (UB), Center on Knowledge Translation for Technology Transfer (KT4TT)
Grant or Contract Numbers: H133A080050
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