AMERICAN INDIANS WITH DISABILITIES PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN NEW PODCAST SHOW

AMERICAN INDIANS WITH DISABILITIES PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN

NEW PODCAST SHOW

from the DISABILITY LAW LOWDOWN

January 13, 2010 – The Disability Law Lowdown podcast just posted a podcast called American Indians with Disabilities Public Awareness Campaign --a technology adoption model for individuals with disabilities from minority populations, with our guest, Andy Winnegar. This podcast features a discussion of assistive technology awareness and outreach “best practice” utilizing Andy Winnegar’s work with Everett Rogers and his diffusion model. Although his model is well documented, the application for people with disabilities, including those from minority populations, has not been.

Mr. Winnegar has been Deputy Director for Program Development and Support, New Mexico Division of Vocational Rehabilitation since 1991. He is the Director of the New Mexico Technology Assistance Program. He has authored successful federal proposals including working directly with Dr. Everett Rogers (Diffusion of Innovations Model) on the American Indian Public Awareness Campaign on Assistive Technology. Andy was co-principal investigator for the Consumer Funded Technology Transfer Network that developed interactions between consumers and NIDRR funded rehabilitation engineer centers, fifty state assistive technology programs and seven hundred federal laboratories. This project was acknowledged as a best practice by the National Center for Dissemination and Disability Research and also received the non-government recognition award from the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer.

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