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ISO26000 : 2010 International Guidance Standard on Organizational
Social Responsibility requires that effective organizational performance
recognize social responsibility, including the rights of persons with
disabilities (PWD), engage stakeholders and contribute to sustainable
development. Millennium Development Goals 2010 notes that the most vulnerable
people require special attention, while the World Report on Disability 2011
identifies improved data collection and removal of barriers to rehabilitation as
the means to empower PWD. BACKGROUND: The Assistive Technology Device
Classification (ATDC), Assistive Technology Service Method (ATSM) and Matching
Person and Technology models provide an evidence-based, standardized,
internationally comparable framework to improve data collection and
rehabilitation interventions.
The ATDC and ATSM encompass and support universal
design (UD) principles, and use the language and concepts of the International
Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). PURPOSE: Use ATDC and
ICF concepts to differentiate medical, assistive and UD products and technology;
relate technology "types" to markets and costs; and support provision of UD
products and technologies as sustainable and socially responsible behavior.
CONCLUSION: Supply-side and demand-side incentives are suggested to foster
private sector development and commercialization of UD products and technologies.
Health and health-related professionals should be knowledgeable of UD principles
and interventions.

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