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Beth A. Jones, Beth.Jones@tamuc.edu
Belinda Rudinger, Belinda.Rudinger@tamuc.edu
Texas A&M University-Commerce
In 2017, Texas A&M University-Commerce (TAMUC) held the Grand
Opening for its Assistive Technology (AT) Lab. Shortly thereafter, Jones,
Williams, and Rudinger (2018) published an article detailing the process for
designing and implementing an AT Lab in postsecondary education environments.
As there are many areas in which AT can be utilized (see Table 1), the Lab was
deliberately arranged by stations and with the intent of including representations of
AT devices for all areas it can support. Every aspect of the Lab was intentional,
from where it would be located (i.e., in the campus library to improve access) to
the size of the computer monitors at each station (e.g., to illustrate that a bigger
computer screen isn't always advantageous for a student with a visual impairment).
In the five years that have elapsed since the Lab's inception, research conducted in
Promoting Assistive Technology Integration:
Strategies from a Postsecondary AT Lab Five
Years After Inception
