ADAPT Training

(en français)

The ADAPT Assistive Technology (AT) Training units have been developed to provide health and social care professionals, students and others working with AT users with knowledge of the area and related issues.

Purpose of training/philosophy

The ADAPT project aims to develop innovative solutions to improve the home care, wellbeing and independence of people with disabilities in the UK and France. As part of achieving this aim, the ADAPT project aims to provide free training of healthcare professionals in Assistive Technologies (AT).

Advances in healthcare technologies are changing the way that healthcare is delivered, and technologies have the capacity to enhance healthcare, giving healthcare professionals more time to care for patients, and empowering patients to participate more fully in their own care.

However, as a result of technological advances, healthcare professionals must continually learn and develop different skill sets in order to use, prescribe and manage new technologies. A recent review highlights the needs for continuous learning for healthcare workforces (Tolpol, 2019). A recent survey conducted by the ADAPT project, in England and France has concluded that there is a lack of AT specific training and regulation in both countries.

The ADAPT training aims to provide health care professionals with an increased awareness and understanding of a range of assistive technologies, and their different uses. The training aims to give an overview of relevant devices and equipment and their application in practice, and to provide health care professionals with the skills/tools they would need to explore and evaluate options that may be best suited to their patients.

The training is designed to be suitable for those who currently work with AT, those who may work with AT in the future, or those who have an interest in the use of assistive technologies in healthcare. As the training units develop, content will become more specific to different purposes of AT, and users may choose to complete all of the units, or to choose units most closely aligned to their interest or work.

Each training unit is being developed by the CCCU ADAPT team, in collaboration with our partner organisations in the UK and France, who are specialists in AT, and is available in both languages. The training adopts the biopsychosocial model of health - which is conceptualized as a complex interaction between biological, social and psychological factors. The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) framework underpins the philosophy and content of specific training units.

Please access the ADAPT Training Units here.