Topic: Assistive Technology

ABLEDATA
The Premier Source for Information on Assistive Technology! Sponsored by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, U.S. Department of Education
http://www.abledata.com/

Accessibility Shopping Mall
This Accessibility Shopping Mall includes resources for adaptive products and assistive technology.
http://www.familyvillage.wisc.edu/mall.htm

CAST Universal Design
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a new paradigm for teaching, learning, and assessment, drawing on new brain research and new media technologies to respond to individual learner differences.
http://www.cast.org/udl/ComputerTechnologyCanEmpowerStudentswithLearningDisabilities960.php

Disability Mall
http://www.medmarket.com/index.php?id=disability

Impact of Exemplary Technology-Support Programs with Disabilities
The formal title of this report is The Impact of Exemplary Technology-Support Programs on Students With Disabilities. The working title, Centers of Energy, grew out of a conversation with Dr. Trent Batson, director of Gallaudet University's Electronic Networks for Interaction (ENFI) Project. Explaining his work, Dr. Batson used the wonderful term Centers of Energy to identify a common denominator of the projects in this report. The ENFI Project began as a technological, educational support service for deaf students in English courses at Gallaudet. It became a model for deaf students at the University of Minnesota and, later, a model for non-traditional students (without disabilities) with applications to older students and to those for whom English is a second language. Ultimately it became a model for the entire field of general education, in use today at more than 150 colleges, universities and high schools in the United States and Canada.
http://www.ncd.gov

Kentucky Assistive Technology services Network (KATS Network)
A state-wide, consumer-driven organization funded under the Technology Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities Act of 1988, PL 100-407, and it's subsequent re-authorization in 1994. Its primary mission is to establish a statewide, comprehensive system for the provision of assistive technology devices and services to individuals with disabilities.
http://www.katsnet.org/

Making Educational Software Accessible
These guidelines represent an ambitious initiative to capture access challenges and solutions
and present them in a format specifically designed to educate and assist educational software
developers. The detailed guidelines, and solutions specific to math and science are unique to
this document. This work is the result of a three-year project funded by the National Science
Foundation's Program for Persons with Disabilities. The CPB/WGBH National Center for
Accessible Media developed this document with input from a distinguished board of advisors with
expertise in accessible design, assistive technology, and the education of students with
disabilities.
http://ncam.wgbh.org/cdrom/guideline/index.html

National Center to Improve Practice (NCIP)
Promotes the effective use of technology to enhance educational outcomes for students with sensory, cognitive, physical and social/emotional disabilities. NCIP is creating a national community of educators--technology coordinators, staff developers, teachers, specialists, clinicians, administrators, university faculty, advocates and consumers--who play a leading role in promoting and implementing assistive and instructional technologies for students with disabilities at a local, regional or national level.
http://www.edc.org/FSC/NCIP/

New England Assistive Technology Marketplace
The place to come for equipment that makes life more accessible. At NEAT, you can try it, buy it, or donate it.
http://www.neatmarketplace.org/

North Carolina Assistive Technology Program
A statewide system to coordinate assistive technology services. The project's activities impact children and adults with disabilities across all aspects of their lives - education, employment, recreation and independent living. Site is organized and up-to-date.
http://www.ncatp.org

Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA)
An interdisciplinary association for the advancement of rehabilitation and assistive technologies (AT).
http://www.resna.org/

RESNA Technical Assistance Project
Provides information and consultation to the assistive technology (Tech Act) programs in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. The 56 Tech Act projects work to reduce barriers to the availability, acquisition, and use of assistive technology devices and services for individuals with disabilities within their states.
http://www.128.104.192.129/taproject/

West Virginia Rehabilitation Research & Training Center
A national center conducting research and training to assist persons with disabilities into employment, the community, and independence through information technology.
http://www.icdi.wvu.edu/homepage.htm