Topic Areas

CREATE projects must be for the development of assistive technology devices/systems that address employment barriers for people with significant disabilities in the following areas:

1.  Technology for Special Populations, cognitive disabilities, learning disabilities, developmental disabilities, low vision/blindness, hearing impairments, dysphasia, elderly interventions, and service delivery programs

2.  Augmentative and Alternative Communication, communication boards, and computer-based communication devices

3.  Computer Access and Use, innovation in software and hardware, training strategies, integration of computer technologies, and alternative access

4.  Environmental Accommodation, Environmental Control Unit systems, work-site modifications, ergonomics, farming and other rural interventions, universal design of products, and places and systems

5.  Functional Control and Assistance, rehabilitation robotics, functional electrical stimulation, prosthetics, and orthotics

6.  Service delivery, technology transfer, and telerehabilitation

7.  Seating and mobility, seating and wheelchair interventions, seat pressure measurement, and transportation issues