Sp 2. Rita Stanley: on policy making, role of reimbursement codes for assistive technologies, and how to make AT more accessible.

Rita Stanely (LinkedIn) is a long-time advocate for making assistive technology more accessible. She has worked in and around the policy-making world for several decades and dedicated her life understanding how science can influence policy. In this episode, we have covered the topics of policy making in the spaces of rehab engineering and assistive tech, what researchers in AT should know about reimbursement codes and policy when developing new tech to ensure its accessible to the intended population, and how our government's view has changed about the importance of providing rehab and assistive tech in the last 20 years. This episode is powered by: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠CREATE ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠(the Center for Research and Education on Accessible Technology and Experiences) at the University of Washington ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠RESNA ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠(the Rehabilitation Engineering and assistive technology Society of North America) ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠NIDILRR ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ARRT Training grant 90ARCP0005-01-00 The transcript for this episode can be found ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠.