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This educational session aims to call for the integration of assistive technology education and training into healthcare and rehabilitation curriculum, explore usefulness of assistive technology as learning resource to develop required knowledge and skills, explore characteristics and perspectives of participants, inform the ongoing development of assistive technology service provision, and understand strategies needed to support health care personnel to fulfil a role in assistive technology worldwide. This interactive learning experience will help indicate useful groundbreaking opportunities that will equip participants with a unique set of knowledge and skills and help identify effective strategies that would further support assistive technology service provision globally. Assistive technology is a key component of integrated model of care and comprehensive healthcare education and training. Integrating assistive technology into education worldwide helps guide healthcare educational curricula development with the ultimate goal of improving the quality of assistive technology service provision. Assistive technology provision continuous learning, post-professional training, inter-professional education, global collaborative work, support, and advocacy are all key factors that help facilitate easy access to affordable and high-quality assistive technology services and products for people requiring assistive products worldwide. The session will be based on the World Health Organization (WHO) training in assistive products (TAP) and other up-to-date resources. Specifically, the session will be delivered in small groups format, with 90 minutes of training, using a case-based and evidence-based learning approach.