Last Update: February, 2007
The proposal for CAT comes from a transdisciplinary team of specialists from the Department of Occupational Therapy at Saginaw Valley State University, The Institute for Innovative Blind Navigation, and special education teachers from the Saginaw Intermediate School System (SISD). We anticipate further support from SVSU, the SISD, regional medical teams, and from city and state government agencies; the broader coalition is under development.
We have several initial goals:
1. To produce a knowledge base that demonstrates the need for CAT at SVSUGraduate students from the occupational therapy department at SVSU under the guidance of Dr. Janet Nagayda (SVSU OT professor) and Dr. Douglas Baldwin (IIBN Director and SISD staff member), are developing the knowledge system (step one above). This web site is the beginning of the knowledge base. The outline and details below will be under constant revision until a complete document is ready for presentation.
2. To share this knowledge with the administrative leadership at SVSU
3. To secure financial backing for the creation of CAT and the associated transdisciplinary research and development lab
4. To make the case for the primary leadership to come from the occupational therapy team at SVSU
The following links take you to key areas of discussion:
Assistive Technology: What is it? Why do we need it? Why is a transdisciplinary team necessary?What will the research and development lab do?
Organizing Team: What agencies and professionals need to be on the transdisciplinary team? What are their roles? How will they work smoothly together? What is Zack.net?