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Tony Langton, the old dog of the group, has been involved in
rehabilitation services for almost 40 years.
His background includes work in vocational evaluation, vocational
rehabilitation services, post-secondary education, and experiences with
schools and community rehabilitation programs. For the past 25 years he
has specialized in working with rehabilitation programs and agencies
with applications of assistive technology and staff development and
training.
He is involved with the Regional Technical Assistance Continuing
Education (TACE) Center at George Washington University assisting with distance learning strategies
and utilization of assistive technology. He currently also
works with a number of rehabilitation agencies and programs and is
involved with web-based distance education training through San Diego
State University. Prior to this Tony was Project Director of Tech
Connections, a project of United Cerebral Palsy Associations, working to
enhance the use of assistive technology in vocational rehabilitation.
From 1989 through 1998 he was Project Director of the Rehabilitation
Engineering Research Center in South Carolina, which focused on
rehabilitation technology applications in vocational rehabilitation. Tony's Wisconsin connection goes back to the University of
Wisconsin-Stout where he was an assistant professor involved in
teaching, training, research and service in vocational evaluation,
assistive technology, and vocational rehabilitation services. While at
Stout he helped to establish the Center for Rehabilitation Technology
and implemented an undergraduate training concentration for
rehabilitation technology specialists.
Throughout his career Tony has been active in professional associations
such as RESNA, the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology
So
ciety
of North America, NRA, the National Rehabilitation Association, VEWAA,
the Vocational Evaluation and Work Adjustment Association, and VECAP,
the Vocational Evaluation Career Assessment Professionals group . In
1996, he was honored with the RESNA Fellow Award for outstanding
contribution to the field of assistive technology.
Occasionally though
he does find time to think about things on his sailboat, Loon.
This page was last reviewed Wednesday, March 09, 2011