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08/15/03 - Action Alert - Workplace Accommodations Survey

Action Alert - Workplace Accommodations Survey

Note from TDI: TDI works closely with academic research facilities throughout the country, whose mission is to make existing and emerging technologies in telecommunications and media accessible to people with disabilities. Below is an invitation from the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC) on Workplace Accommodations at Georgia Tech. Your participation, while voluntary, would be very much appreciated.

Thank you,

Jim House

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You are invited to participate in the Consumer Advisory Network for the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC) on Workplace Accommodations at Georgia Tech (www.workplacererc.org/). As a member of the Consumer Advisory Network, we request that you complete one or more surveys about your experiences in the workplace. This will help provide a clear perspective on workplace products and services; assistive technology needs, and evaluate new technologies to make workplaces more accessible.

By participating in the consumer network, you will share some information about yourself and your experiences working with a disability. There is no direct benefit to you for participating and there are no foreseeable risks. Your participation is strictly voluntary and you are not required to participate. The results of this initial questionnaire and subsequent surveys will be used to identify common problems and successes people with disabilities have in work environments and to determine areas for new product development.

We will be sending out the first survey soon and we would like to be sure people who are deaf or hard of hearing are well represented in the survey. If you would like to join our consumer advisory network, please sign up on our website: www.workrerc.org/Contact/advisorylist.cfm

If you have difficulty filling out the form, please send me an email: John.goldthwaite@catea.org and I can send you a text version of the form.

Thanks very much.

John Goldthwaite, Senior Research Scientist
Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access

Georgia Tech
404 894-0563 (voice)
866 948-8282 (toll free voice/TTY)
john.goldthwaite@catea.org

If you have any questions about this eNote, please e-mail to jimhouse@tdi-online.org

Sincerely,
Jim House, Director
TDI Member Services & Public Relations
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