Reports, Articles and Other Publications on Assistive Technology

General Reports and Publications on Medicare, Medicaid, the ADA and Disability Issues

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Government Publications

Disability Status: 2000, Census 2000 Brief, Judith Waldrop & Sharon M. Stern [US Census Bureau] (2003).
http://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/c2kbr-17.pdf

Americans with Disabilities 1997: Household Economic Studies, Jack McNeil [US Census Bureau] (2001).
http://www.census.gov/prod/3/97pubs/p70-61.pdf

Healthy People 2010, Ch. 6: Disability and Secondary Conditions, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, U.S. Department of Education (2000).
http://www.healthypeople.gov/document/pdf/Volume1/06Disability.pdf

Federal Policy Barriers to Assistive Technology, National Council on Disability (2000).
http://www.ncd.gov/newsroom/publications/assisttechnology.html

Trends and Differential Use of Assistive Technology Devices: United States, 1994, J. Neil Russell, Gerry Hendershot, Felicia LeClere, Jean Howie, & Michelle Adler (1997).
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/ad/ad292.pdf

Study on the Financing of Assistive Technology Devices and Services for Individuals with Disabilities, National Council on Disability (1993).
http://www.ncd.gov/newsroom/publications/assistive.html

Access Barriers for Persons with Disabilities: The Consumer’s Perspective, Jessica Scheer, Thilo Kroll, Melinda T. Neri, & Phillip Beatty, 13 JOURNAL OF DISABILITY POLICY STUDIES 221 (2003).

Access to Assistive Technologies: Improving Health and Well-being for People with Disabilities, American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (2003).
http://www.aapmr.org/zdocs/hpl/atoutcomes0503.pdf

Beyond 50 2003: A Report to the Nation on Independent Living and Disability, AARP Public Policy Institute, Independent Living/Long-Term Care Team (2003).
http://research.aarp.org/il/beyond_50_il.html

Digital Divide Network, Q&A: The Internet and People with Disabilities, Part 1, Mary Lester, Russ Holland & Sue Brown, [Alliance for Technology Access].
http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org/content/stories/index.cfm?key=202

Understanding the Consequences of Access Barriers to Health Care: Experiences of Adults with Disabilities, M.T. Neri & T. Kroll, 25 Disability and RehabilitationDISABILITY AND REHABILITATION 85 (2003).
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12554383&dopt=Abstract

Falls Among Older Persons and the Role of the Home: An Analysis of Cost, Incidence, and Potential, Savings from Home Modifications, Andrew Kochera [AARP’s Public Policy Institute] (2002).
http://research.aarp.org/il/ib56_falls.pdf

Highlights from the NIDRR/RESNA/University of Michigan Survey of Assistive Technology and Information Technology Use and Need by Persons with Disabilities in the United States, Dawn Carlson, Nathaniel Ehrlich, Betty Jo Berland, and Nell Bailey (2002).
http://128.104.192.129/taproject/library/highlights.html

Payment Under Public and Private Insurance and Access to Cochlear Implants, Steven Garber, Susan Ridgely, Melissa Bradley, & Kenley W. Chin, 128 ARCH OTOLARYNGOL HEAD NECK SURGERY 1145 (2002).
http://archotol.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/128/10/1145

Satisfaction with Quality and Access to Health Care Among People with Disabling Conditions, Lisa I. Iezzoni, Roger B. Davis, Jane Soukup, & Bonnie O’Day, 14 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR QUALITY IN HEALTH CARE 369 (2002).
http://intqhc.oupjournals.org/cgi/reprint/14/5/369.pdf

Smart Phones for the Elders: Boosting the Intelligence of Smart Homes, William Mann & Sumi Helal, (2002).
http://www.harris.cise.ufl.edu/projects/publications/AAAI2002-v3.pdf

Assistive Technology, Accommodations, and the Americans with Disabilities Act, Nell Bailey [RESNA] (2000).
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/ped/hr_tips/article.cfm?b_id=2&view_all=true

Assistive Technology Survey Results: Continued Benefits and Needs Reported by Americans with Disabilities, Dawn Carlson, Nathaniel Ehrlich, Betty Jo Berland, & Neil Bailey (2001).
http://www.ncddr.org/du/researchexchange/v07n01/atpaper/

Cost-Utility Analysis of the Cochlear Implant in Children, A.K. Cheng, H.R. Rubin, N.R. Powe, N.K. Mellon, H.W. Francis, & J.K. Niparko, 284 JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 850 (2000).
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/284/7/850

Quantifying the Obvious: The Impact of Hearing Instruments on Quality of Life, Sergei Kochkin & Carole M. Rogin, 7 HEARING REVIEW 6 (2000).

The Societal Costs of Severe to Profound Hearing Loss in the United States, Penny E. Mohr, Jacob J. Feldman, Jennifer L. Dunbar, Amy McConkey-Robbins, John K. Niparko, Robert K. Rittenhouse, & Margaret W. Skinner, 16 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT IN HEALTH CARE (2000).
http://www.projecthope.org/CHA/pdf/HVol2No1.pdf

Use of Assistive Technology: Findings from National Surveys, Lita Jans [InfoUse] (2000).
http://www.infouse.com/atdata/csun.pdf

Designing for Users with Cognitive Disabilities, Erica Kolatch [University of Maryland] (2000). http://www.otal.umd.edu/UUGuide/erica/

Telecommunications Problems and Design Strategies for People with Cognitive Disabilities, World Institute on Disability (1999).
http://www.wid.org/archives/telecom/

A White Paper Addressing the Societal Costs of Hearing Loss and Issues in Third Party Reimbursement.
http://www.hearingloss.org/pdf/HIA%20White%20Paper%20Final.pdf

Family Guide to Assistive Technology, Parent, Let’s Unite for Kids (PLUK) (1997).
http://www.pluk.org/AT1.html

Learning Disabilities and Assistive Technology Resource Packet, The Georgia Assistive Technology Project.
http://www.gatfl.org/ldguide/documents/AT%20Resource%207-00.pdf

Using Knowledge and Technology to Improve the Quality of Life of People who have Disabilities: A Prosumer Approach, Laura Edwards.
http://codi.buffalo.edu/archives/pubs/articles/.edwards/

Informed Consumer's Guide to Funding Assistive Technology, AbleData (2001).
http://www.abledata.com/Site_2/funding.htm

Medicare Funding for Augmentative & Alternative Communication (ACC) Devices, Lewis Golinker (1997).
http://www.upshawinst.org/techearlyspring97/aacmed.htm

Financing Assistive Technology: Handbook for Funding, Trace Center-University of Wisconsin-Madison. http://trace.wisc.edu/archive/fintech/fintech.html

General Reports and Publications on Medicare, Medicaid, the ADA and Disability Issues

Government Publications

Medicare Information Resource, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (2003).
http://www.cms.gov/medicare/

Medicaid Information Resource, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (2003).
http://www.cms.gov/medicaid/

National Disability Policy: A Progress Report December 2000-December 2001, National Council on Disability (2002).
http://www.ncd.gov/newsroom/publications/progressreport_07-26-02.html

Fact Sheet on the Olmstead Decision, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2000). http://www.cms.hhs.gov/media/press/release.asp?Counter=369

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Report on Understanding Medicaid Home and Community Services: A Primer, Gary Smith, Janet O'Keeffe, Letty Carpenter, Pamela Doty, Gavin Kennedy, Brian Burwell, Robert Mollica & Loretta Williams [George Washington University, Center for Health Policy Research] (2000).
http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/primer.htm

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Statute, U.S. Justice Department. http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/pubs/ada.txt

Regulations for Title II of the ADA, U.S. Justice Department.
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/reg3a.html

Medicare in the 21st Century: Building a Better Chronic Care System, June Eichner & David Blumenthal, [National Academy of Social Insurance] (2003). http://www.nasi.org/publications2763/publications_show.htm?doc_id=146189&name=Medicare

Disability and Health Care Costs in the Medicare Population, Leighton Chan, Shelli Beaver, Richard F. MacLehose, Amitabh Jha, Matthew Maciejewski, Jason N. Doctor, 83 ARCHIVES OF PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION 1196 (2002).

The Medicaid Resource Book, Andy Schneider, Risa Elias, Rachel Garfield, David Rousseau & Victoria Wachino [The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured] (2002).
http://www.kff.org/content/2003/2236/

Emerging Trends in Disability, Glenn T. Fujiura, POPULATION TODAY (2001). http://www.prb.org/Content/NavigationMenu/PT_articles/Jul-Sep01/Emerging_Trends_in_Disability.htm

The U.S. Supreme Court's Majority and Minority Opinions in L.C. v. Olmstead, Legal Information Institute (1999).
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/98-536.ZO.html

Various Reports and Publications on “Disabled Populations,” Kaiser Family Foundation
http://www.kff.org/topics.cgi?topic=disabled

Various Reports and Publications, Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured
http://www.kff.org/sections.cgi?section=kcmu