Interested in learning more about AT? Now or in the future, you may want options to:

• find the answers to questions about a form of AT that would enable a particular client
• learn more about a selected area of AT that fits with your area of practice
• specialize in the area of AT

If so, you have lots of options. Often, you can gain product information and new learning through contacting the vendor of a certain product. It's their business to be knowledgeable about the products they sell, be they wheelchairs, adapted computer software, or high tech environmental control systems. Just be sure that you gain a well rounded picture of what is available, rather than learning about only the product line they sell. You can locate vendors through the internet or your local phone directory.

Certificate and non-certificate training are available through the following sources:

AT Conferences

• Shopper's Home Health: offers an annual conference in Toronto and Calgary on AT innovations. The conference is free or low cost, and the website should be available by early fall: http://www.healthcareinnovations.ca/
• Closing the Gap - a wonderful conference held each October in Minneapolis, MN. Find information at http://www.closingthegap.com/
• RESNA (Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America) - has a conference each year in late June, which features a special 2 day pre-conference Fundamentals of AT workshop:http://www.resna.org/
• CAT (Center for Assistive Technology) at the University of Buffalo has a Ph.D. program, a certificate program, and other CE workshops in school-based AT: http://cat.buffalo.edu/education.php
• CSUN- the University of California, Northridge has a well known annual conference: http://www.csun.edu/cod/conference/index.php
• ATutor offers an Understanding Web Accessibility online certificate course at: http://www.atutor.ca/services/courses.php

You can also build your knowledge and awareness of what's out there through the usual continuing education paths:

• attend presentations at OT conferences that relate to AT
• ask a local "expert" therapist for advice and guidance relative to a particular case or issue
• get on the e-mail or catalogue mailing list for the biggest technology companies
• the Centralized Equipment Pool (CEP) https://web.cepp.org/. This is the organization that you take courses through to become an Independent Authorizer, or an Authorizer in an Augmentative Communication Clinic
• attend a webinar https://www.ablenetinc.com/resources/live_webinars/