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www.Atarizona.com is an educational website for and about assistive technology in Arizona. The intent of this project is to make tools and information available for users and professionals in the field, concentrating on the workplace, including:

What is Assistive Technology?
Who are the Specialists?
Where are the service sites?
Where are accessible sites to:
try equipment
search for employment
talk to people who know?

Arizona Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired (ACBVI) is a non-profit agency managing a contract for the ATAZ Staff Training Program through Arizona RSA to develop a supporting website, www.atarizona.com and a staff training program. The training sessions on assistive technology are held at RSA offices and Comprehensive One-Stop Career Centers (WIA/Workforce Connection). The Arizona Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired (ACBVI) has been providing services for individuals since 1947. The ACBVI is committed to "enhancing the quality of life for people who are blind or otherwise visually impaired."

Our services are available to adults who are legally blind or visually impaired as well as those who have a degenerative eye condition which may eventually become a visual impairment. These services are offered separately or concurrently according to the individual needs of the qualifying client. The www.atarizona.com website for the project is developed and maintained by ACBVI Inc.

One-Stop Training Project:

Trainings are designed to orient staff to disability etiquette and target issues such as basic accommodations and access to resources in local One-Stop Service Centers. Such products as screen readers for persons who are blind, screen magnification for persons with vision impairments, CCTV's to access to print materials, and the practical use of TTY telephones for persons who are hearing or speech impaired. One-Stops are in varying phases of providing these services, also featured on this website. Locations, training documents, links, photo galleries and resource inventories are all accessible within this website.

A primary resource for One-Stop Center Partners are staff of RSA called Navigators or Disability Program Specialists. Navigators are a primary resource for disability information and work with clients on how persons with disabilities can best use the resource labs. Navigators are also primary contacts for One-Stop staff who are assisting job-seekers using these resource labs and other services. The AT Trainers at ACBVI work closely with Navigators in scheduling and coordinating trainings in the Centers. Participants in such trainings include: VR staff, vocational and job trainers, job coaches, job developers and local center staff. Trainings encourage participation and community outreach to the schools, interested Partner agencies to the One-Stop Centers, and individuals in the community.

 

    
         
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