Engaging national organizations for knowledge translation: Comparative case studies in knowledge value mapping

Table 3 Ranking importance across various types of knowledge use

	Very Important	Important	Moderately important	Of little importance	Unimportant	Not applicable
To create or revise industry standards or clinical protocols is ...	AHEAD ASHA OSERS RESNA	ATIA	ISAAC
To build laboratory instruments or clinical tools is ...	RESNA	ASHA OSERS		ATIA	ISAAC	AHEAD
To create freeware (hardware, software) for free download or access is ...		OSERS	ISAAC	RESNA		ATIA AHEAD ASHA
Designing new or improved commercial devices or services is ...	ATIA RESNA	ISAAC ASHA OSERS				AHEAD
For other purposes is ... -Promote the AT field-Inform policy or practice		ATIA RESNA AHEAD

ATIA = Assistive Technology Industry Association; AHEAD = Association on Higher Education and Disability; ISAAC = International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication; ASHA = American Speech-Language Hearing Association; OSERS = Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services; RESNA = Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive Technology Society of North America; AT = assistive technology.

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