Just Hop up! Access to medical equipment - where are we?

This teleconference session will be held on Tuesday, August 16, 2005, 2-3:30 P.M., EST, and will be presented by the Great Lakes ADA & Accessible IT Center in Chicago, IL, via speaker phone.

Presented by representatives from the RERC on Accessible Medical Equipment
"I know I can get my wheelchair through that door, but I don't know how I going to get my body into that machine!" Hear about: new data from the RERC on Accessible Medical Instrumentation national consumer needs assessment survey on medical equipment; strategies for getting accessible medical equipment into offices of health providers; existing resources for accessible equipment (exam tables, chairs, scales, mammography); using tools to communicate with providers about your accessible equipment needs; and the project's next steps - designing new equipment, effecting change within the medical equipment and health care industry and health care public policy.

The cost for the session is $25 for nonprofits and $40 for other entities for each location, regardless of the number of participants at each location (multiple people can attend at one location for the same flat fee). There is no charge to participants who come to the following locations: Ohio Rehabilitation Services Commission in Columbus, OH; the Inclusion Network in Cincinnati, OH; and Southeastern Ohio Center for Independent Living (SOCIL) in Lancaster, OH.

Sessions are 90 minutes in length and delivered via audio conference. Participants are in a "listen-only" mode until the question and answer period. The sessions are offered real-time captioned on the Internet, and a transcript is developed and posted to the Internet following the session. In addition, a digital recording of the session is archived on the Great Lakes ADA & Accessible IT Center web site at http://www.ada-audio.org/Archives/

If you are unable to access this site, please email adaohio@aol.com, and they will assist you further.

You can attend for no charge at RSC in Columbus, OH. If you would like to take advantage of this option, they ask for an an email (adaohio@aol.com) or call (800-232-6446) by August 9. Please provide your name, organization, address, email address, and telephone number. Please do not send a check to ADA-OHIO.

You can also attend for no charge at the Inclusion Network in Cincinnati, OH. Call 513-345-1330 for more information.

You can also attend for no charge at SOCIL in Lancaster, OH. Call 740-689-1494 for more information.

If you wish to attend elsewhere, please go to web site http://adata.org/centers.htm to locate an office in your area. If you are unable to access this site, email adaohio@aol.com, and they will assist you further.