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Assistive Technology
Mass AT Loan Program (ATLP)
low interest cash loans to purchase assistive devices and services.
Mass Match
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
dmereuse.org or 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
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
Assistive and Instructional Technology Supporting Learners with Disabilities
AbleData
downloadable catalog of assistive living devices from different companies and organizations that supply or sell them.
Perkins 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
https://www.mass.gov/assistive-technology-and-hearing-ear-dogs
assistive technology and hearing ear dogs (617)740-1600
New England Low Vision and Blindness
Assistive Technology Regional Centers (ATRC)
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Easter Seals Assistive Technology Center
www.easterseals.com/ma/our-programs/assistive-technology/atrc.html
loans for 2-4 weeks (800)244-2756
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AT Regional Center at United Cerebral Palsy of Berkshire County
ucpwma.org/assistive-technology-at/at-services
in Western Mass loans AT devices and DME. (413)442-1562 X 26 or email info@ucpberkshire.org
Wheelchairs
United Spinal Wheelchair Reviews
unitedspinal.org/wheelchair-reviews-views
Wheelchair Reviews and Views Project
USA Tech Guide
www.usatechguide.org/
web guide to wheelchairs, mobility scooters, and assistive technology choices.
The Wheelchair Recycler
wheelchairrecycler.org/contact-us
Contact the Wheelchair Recycler regarding issues used power wheelchairs at little or no expense to the new user. Marlborough, MA.
Online Technology
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
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
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
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
http://idea.ap.buffalo.edu/
at SUNY Buffalo’s School of Architecture and Planning studies. The center 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!
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