Booking for the conference is now closed, if you were unable to make the conference then sorry - hopefully we’ll see you next year. You will also be able to download the presentations from the conference in due course.
If you are coming to RAATE, we looking forward to seeing you there, you may find the following useful:
See you there!
Achieving Mobility for Life, Volvo UK, Warwick - 22nd Nov 2007
RAATE’s co-sponsors, Posture and Mobility Group (PMG) are holding an Event looking at user consultation in the design of Assistive Technology.
The intention of this meeting is to bring AT users together with medical professionals (including therapists and engineers) and commercial companies to look at what users need in the design of AT, how standards can be used to help achieve these needs, and how everyone can then be kept aware of the standards and the benefits they offer.
The event includes some free bursary places for people using wheelchairs.
In addition to the fantastic training package running on the first morning of the conference, the RAATE team are pleased to announce a parallel workshop on Outcome Measures. This workshop will be led by a number of well renowned international researchers.
This workshop is now available for RAATE delegates to choose as an alternative to the training sessions on day one of the programme. To attend please indicate this as your training choice for day one on the registration form. Please note spaces are limited and we are anticipating a high attendance for this workshop so early registration is recommended.
NHS Innovations London have agreed to Sponsor RAATE this year - continuing their support for this forward looking conference. Assistive Technology is an area of fast change and innovation and has a potentially huge impact on Health Care provision.
By supporting RAATE 2007 - the UK’s main Assistive Technology conference - NHS Innovations London are showing their commitment to this pioneering and high-impact field.
Dr Branko Celler is announced as the new Keynote speaker for RAATE 2007 - Branko will open the conference on the 26th November. Branko is the Director of the Biomedical Systems Laboratory and the Laboratory of Health Telematics at the University of New South Wales and is known as a key instigator of Telecare technologies.
Dr Celler’s talk will be titled “Making telehealth work. Managing chronic disease in the home and the community.” and will allow the RAATE UK audience to learn from Dr Celler’s experience in the Telecare and Telehealth field.
In combination with the other, already announced, keynote - Dr Jeff Jutai - this provides a compelling reason for anyone involved in Assistive Technology to come to RAATE 2007. Anyone needing more reasons just needs to check out the, now published, programme - packed full of interesting and topical papers (not to mention the training courses and workshops!).
This new peer-reviewed journal provides a user focus on current and enabling technologies, telecare and e-inclusion in health and social care. The Journal of Assistive Technology (JAT) and RAATE are collaborating this year and as a result, selected papers accepted to RAATE 2007 will be submitted to JAT.
About JAT:
Articles focus on how people use assistive and enabling technologies, rather than solely on the technology itself, and raise the awareness of available technologies. It debates definitions and concepts and addresses ethics, policy, legislation and issues for day-to-day practice.
The Journal brings together the people who use assistive technologies and the people who write about and research its use.
Published: March, June, September, December.
RAATE is pleased to announce this year’s keynote speaker - Dr Jeff Jutai. Jeff is probably best known for developing the Psychosocial Impact of Assistive Devices Scale (PIADS) outcome measure.
RAATE is pleased to be able to invite Jeff, from London, Canada to speak at RAATE and I am sure this will be a valuable opportunity for Assistive Technology practitioners in the UK to meet Jeff and find out about his work.
This invitation has been made possible through this year’s collaboration with the ACT programme.
A list of accommodation options in the wonderful city of Sheffield is now available:
An excellent response to this year’s call for papers, which has now closed. Further papers may, exceptionally, be accepted for the next couple of weeks - use the same submission process.
If you submitted a paper, you should have received an email confirmation - if you did not get a confirmation, please contact us.
Details of the conference workshops and courses will be finalised on the site this week - and booking for the conference is now open.
For manufacturers - register soon to be able to post announcements to this site.
Sorry for the recent site down time (for the last couple of days). The site is now back and the call for papers is closing soon - the deadline is the 20th July. To submit a paper simply go to: www.raate.org.uk/call-for-papers/ . Submissions will be acknowledged on the 20th, by email, until that date you can go back and edit your submission from the control panel.