Medi-Cal recently agreed to pay up to a hour of travel time for emergency repairs. PAI, in working with a case in Santa Clara, discovered that California Children's Service was not providing adequate notice after making adverse decisions. They have acknowledged this and agreed to provide the required notice. Taymour asked that he be apprised of any instances where adequate notice is not provided. Dennis Law reported that the revision and updating of the Accessing Assistive Technology manual by PAI is nearing completion.
Individual chapters are now available in English.
The quality review of the chapter translated into five different languages has been completed. Translation of additional chapters into Korean, Spanish and Vietnamese is proceeding. There are some issues that are being worked out between the reviewer and the translator of Chinese and Tagalog. CATS worked with DR s Staff Development Unit to set up six sites in California for a live satellite broadcast on applications of AT in the workplace for DR staff. The meeting will be in Los Angeles.