Our Vision
The ATRC:
- Offers leadership, direction, and support to build Colorado State University’s capacity at the individual, organizational, and attitudinal levels to create a technological climate that is inclusive and provides electronic access for all its community
- Advocates for proactive, inclusive design, and planning concerning access to technology and electronic information
- Strives to contribute to and draw from research and evidence-based practice
- Elevates best practices for assistive and mainstream technology supports and services in higher education
Our Mission
The ATRC:
- Ensures equitable access to technology and electronic information for students and employees with disabilities by fostering a technological climate that is inclusive and welcoming to a diversity of learners and workers
- Works to ensure that CSU students and employees are aware of and can access assistive and mainstream technology options available to them
- Provides consultation, education, and advocacy regarding inclusive design, access to mainstream and instructional technologies, and best practices for assistive technology supports in higher education
- Supports assistive technology competencies in the Occupational Therapy curriculum
Our Philosophy
The ATRC:
- Supports CSU’s principles of community
- Sees disability as a facet of diversity and inclusive excellence
- Considers a Social Justice approach, focusing on equity of access to opportunities
- Follows a Social Model of disability, in which
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- disability is a facet of the human condition
- barriers exist in the environment, not the individual
- society has a responsibility to modify the environment to be inclusive
- Values the Occupational Therapy lens and application of the Human Activity Assistive Technology Model, which
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- seek to enhance participation in meaningful activities
- emphasize the interaction between the whole person engaged in the activity within a chosen context
