Hosted by Pennsylvania’s Education for All Coalition (PEAC)
Join PEAC for a day of discovery and innovation around technology for independence, accessibility, virtual, and remote solutions. Explore sessions to build your knowledge, learn from exhibitors about available technologies, and learn directly from users of these technologies to help you with implementation
KEYNOTE SPEAKER : Rebekah Taussig, PhD
- Author, educator, and disability rights activist dedicated to changing cultural narratives around disability, motherhood, and what it means to live in a human body. Literally.
SUMMIT FEATURES
- A panel of technology users to give advice, share their stories and answer your questions
- An array of vendors to showcase services, devices and solutions
- Concurrent strand sessions:
- From Advocacy to Action: Policies and Funding for Assistive Technology
- Innovative Remote Supports for Everyday Living
- Technology for Access and Community Living
- Technology Accelerator: Into the Future
WELCOMED GUESTS
- People with disabilities and their families
- Direct Supports Providers and professionals working with people with disabilities, such as Direct Care Workers, Direct Support Professionals, Support Service Professionals, Supports Coordinators, Job Coaches, and healthcare professionals
- Organizations and Providers who serve people with disabilities
- Policymakers, advocates, and allies for people with lived disability experience
- Students looking to work in disability-related fields
- Anyone interested in technological supports for people with disabilities
The Institute on Disabilities at Temple University, College of Education and Human Development is partnering with the Pennsylvania Office of Developmental Programs and Office of Long-Term Living, Department of Human Services, and the University of Kansas Center on Disabilities’ State of the States team on a statewide initiative called PA Tech Accelerator. The goal of the program is to expand the awareness of, and access to, assistive technology (AT), to build capacity of AT users and to measure effectiveness around AT use, access and service across the Commonwealth. This project is made possible by Pennsylvania’s Department Human Services through funding from the American Rescue Plan Act.