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ATANZ MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION
offers three types of membership:
- Practitioner Membership $70.00 plus GST ($80.50 inc)
- Associate Membership $50.00 plus GST ($57.50 inc) * Please note that Associate Membership is non-voting.
- Student Member $35.00 plus GST ($40.25 inc)
An Assistive Technology Practitioner is defined as:
- An Accredited Assessor under the Ministry of Health scheme
- An ACC approved Assistive Technology assessor and/or provider
- A member of a related professional body e.g. speech-language therapist, occupational therapist, teacher, psychologist) working or seeking to work in assistive technology service provision
- Managers of services who are actively involved in the provision or development of direct services in Assistive Technology.
An Associate Member includes:
- Assistive Technology Suppliers (ATS). An ATS is defined as any supplier who is involved with the sale or service of rehabilitation equipment, assistive technology and commercially available products and devices
- Families and Assistive Technology users
Only Practitioner members may vote at the AGM or stand as Trustees.
ATS Policy:
ATANZ recognizes the importance of supporting all AT suppliers and providing equal opportunities for suppliers to market their products at Conferences and other Continuing Education events.
The Trust expects that all ATANZ members act in a professional manner and do not bring into disrepute other members. In agreeing to membership, ATANZ members have agreed to these terms.
Sponsorship:
ATANZ also recognises the contributions that AT suppliers have given to the development of the Trust through sponsorship at conferences, contributing at professional development events and through promoting the aims of the Trust to consumers.
It is ATANZ policy that any potential conflicts of interest will be made known to the membership via the ATANZ website.
ATANZ Members only section
The member’s only section of the ATANZ website has been designed to provide members, including users of assistive technology, with an interactive method of sharing ideas and resources.
The members only section includes:
- A Blog: create your own Blog about your involvement with assistive technology tools and strategies. Contribute a good news story.
- A Document section: Useful documents are stored here that can be shared with other members
- A Wiki: This is where process and policy type information is stored and can be added to by members.
- Mindshare: Mindshare is a social network platform, the focus is communication and collaboration. Members contribute their ideas, questions, discuss issues, brain storm, anything that contributes to the free sharing of ideas.
Users of assistive technology may access the member only section upon request.
NOTE: For the purposes of ATANZ, assistive technology is defined as "any item, piece of equipment or product system whether acquired commercially off the shelf, modified or customised that is used to increase or improve functional capabilities of people with disabilities" (Cook and Hussey)
These criteria are a guide only. The Trustees reserve the right to evaluate appropriate membership on a case by case basis.