title: Hispanics' awareness of assistive technology.
abstract: This study compared Hispanics' awareness of services available to acquire assistive technology and whether they actually sought help to the findings from a national sample. The study assists the field by providing information on a group largely ignored in the literature. The authors sought to answer the following research questions: Are there intergroup differences between Hispanics with disabilities and non-Hispanics with disabilities in terms of how they receive help accessing AT services? and Are there intragroup differences among Hispanics with respect to how they receive help and their awareness of available help to acquire AT? The findings suggest a large disparity between awareness of available services to acquire assistive technology and actual receipt of such services. In addition, although similar patterns were found, the Hispanics from the national sample appear more aligned with the overall sample, while the Hispanics from the Hispanic-only sample seem to be using services at higher percentages.
authors.affiliation: Department of Disability and Human Development, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60608, USA. albertog@email.arizona.edu
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Guzman
authors.forename: Noam
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ostrander
mesh_terms: D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000523:psychology*; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D012656:Self-Help Devices / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires