The 2001 Survey of Assistive Technology and Information Technology Use and
Need by Persons With Disabilities in the United States (AT Survey), was
conducted over a nine-month period from March through December 2001. Each respondent
was screened in as a person with a disability based on a screening instrument
developed by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research
(NIDRR), the Rehabilitation
Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA),
and the Survey Research Center (SRC)
in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. The screener
used questions from the 2000 U. S. Census and the National Health Interview
Survey.
Respondents were asked about personal characteristics, including disability
status, followed by questions about assistive technology (AT) and information
technology (IT) use and need in the home, at school, at work, and in the community.
Attitudes and opinions about the availability and usefulness of AT (devices,
technologies and services) were explored, as well as other factors believed
to affect AT use and need, such as the severity of the impairment and the need
for personal assistance services.
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