What is the ATOMS Project working on right now?
The ATOMS Project has completed a multi-faceted needs assessment including 15 field scans, focus groups, and database analyses. Eleven technical reports are posted on the ATOMS Project website documenting these efforts. These include a comprehensive discussion of legal issues related to AT outcomes. The ATOMS Project also reviewed more than 50 currently available AT assessment instruments and has created a library available to clinicians in national workshops. The ATOMS Project also partners with the State of Wisconsin Department of Vocational Rehabilitation with an AT outcomes assessment project linking statewide data and 4 stakeholder surveys to the RSA data. We are also studying “AT abandonment” and are partnered with the Wisconsin Wheelchair Recycling Program, a program that was initially funded by the State of Wisconsin DNR to keep discarded equipment out of landfills.