Assistive Technology

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Assistive Technology

Mass AT Loan Program (ATLP)

www.massatloan.org/

low interest cash loans to purchase assistive devices and services.

Mass Match

www.massmatch.org/

The Massachusetts Initiative to Maximize Assistive Technology in Consumer’s Hands – coordinates Assistive Technology services throughout Massachusetts.

Get AT Stuff

https://getatstuff.massmatch.org/
the Assistive Technology Exchange in Massachusetts – gets unused assistive technology items into the hands of people who need and can benefit from them. GetATstuff is now part of MassMATCH.

REquipment

www.dmerequipment.org/
offering free refurbished wheelchairs, scooters, shower chairs and more to adults, children and elders living in Massachusetts. REquipment takes donations.

Easter Seals

www.easterseals.com/ma/

As a national leader in Assistive Technology, Easter Seals provides services to ensure that children and adults with disabilities have equal opportunities to live, learn, work and play.

MA Equipment Distribution Program (MassEDP)

www.mass.gov/massachusetts-equipment-distribution-program-massedp

provides telephone networks to people with disabilities.

CTD

www.ctdinstitute.org/

Assistive and Instructional Technology Supporting Learners with Disabilities

AbleData

www.abledata.com/

downloadable catalog of assistive living devices from different companies and organizations that supply or sell them.

Perkins Library

www.perkins.org/library

is a free, accessible public library service that loans audio books, magazines and the equipment necessary to listen to them to any Massachusetts resident having a print disability.

Assistive Technology

digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1296&context=edicollect

MA Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

www.mass.gov/eohhs/gov/departments/mcdhh/programs/hearing-dogs/

assistive technology and hearing ear dogs (617)740-1600

New England Low Vision and Blindness

www.nelowvision.com/

Assistive Technology Regional Centers (ATRC)

Wheelchairs

USA Tech Guide

www.usatechguide.org/

web guide to wheelchairs, mobility scooters, and assistive technology choices.

The Wheelchair Recycler

wheelchairrecycler.org/

issues used power wheelchairs at little or no expense to the new user. Marlborough, MA.

Online Technology

AccessibleTech.org

accessibletech.org/

promotes full participation in business and society by persons with disabilities through the use of electronic information technology that is universally accessible.

Section508.gov

www.section508.gov/

has resources for understanding and implementing Section 508. Section 508 requires that Federal agencies’ electronic and information technology is accessible to people with disabilities.

AccessIT

www.washington.edu/accessit/

based at the University of Washington, promotes the use of electronic and information technology (E&IT) for students and employees with disabilities in educational institutions at all academic levels.

Universal Design

The Institute for Human Centered Design

humancentereddesign.org/

governmental educational organization (NGO) committed to advancing the role of design in expanding opportunity and enhancing experience for people of all ages and abilities. The IHCD is based in Boston.

The Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access

www.ap.buffalo.edu/idea/Home/index.asp

at SUNY Buffalo’s School of Architecture and Planning studies and recommends ways to make environments and products more usable, safer and healthier for the needs of an increasingly diverse population. The IDeA Center’s activities are based on the philosophy of Inclusive Design.

How to Adapt

www.howtoadapt.com/Home/Home.shtml

has all kinds of ideas on how to adapt to specific challenges – even how to Wheelchair Waterski!