Co-creating an assistive technology peer-support community: learnings from AT Chat.

Service delivery by the AT user community and for the AT user community requires a commitment to co-design, and an engagement with concepts of risk, competency, scope of practice and capability. The learnings from AT Chat have implications for AT services on this journey everywhere.Implications for rehabilitationActive co-design of AT services meets human rights and good practice benchmarks required by contemporary services.Foregrounding AT users within program design and delivery, brings a range of positive outcomes and possibilities for the way services are delivered.AT users have substantial untapped potential which brings tangible outcomes for other AT users, health professionals, service provider organizations and for society.Development of paid roles and pathways to recognize the skills of AT users, and indeed AT communities has potential to improve AT user self-efficacy as well as to contribute to the AT workforce.