assistive technology devices
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FARMINGTON - Loraine Spenciner, University of Maine at Farmington professor of special education, has received a $10,000 award to continue work on assistive technology at UMF from Maine CITE, a statewide program designed to help make assistive and universally designed technology more available to Maine children and youth, birth through age 20, who have disabilities.
Assistive technology devices, often referred to as AT, are the tools that enable children with disabilities to be successful, receive their education in general education classrooms and show their strengths and abilities when they participate in local and statewide assessments.
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...(6) require that most assistive technology devices (7) be provided free of charge to students with di...
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... from special education, including assistive technology services and devices. (1) The term assi...
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Open houses offer help to those with disabilities
Society's Assets is holding two open houses at its Racine and Kenosha locations to display a new variety of assistive technology devices to help seniors and those with disabilities.
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I want to commend the Deseret Morning News for the story, "Finding a voice" (Sept. 19). As an advocate at the Disability Law Center, I have worked to ensure that people with disabilities throughout the state have access to the technology they need to be independent, contributing members of the community. There is something transformative that happens when individuals that were unable to articulate their wants and needs gain the ability to do so.
As the article so clearly points out, when kids are able to express themselves and be engaged with their environment, real learning can take place. The article is a great reminder that there have been some extraordinary advances in technology for people with disabilities. The Disability Law Center is another resource to keep in mind. We provide ...
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...701 et seq.), as amended. Assistive technology device means any item, piece of equipme... the acquisition of assistive technology devices by individuals with disabilities;. (3) Selecting, ...
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...202(i)(1); (29 U.S.C. 761a(i)(1)). Assistive technology device means any item, piece of equipme... the acquisition of assistive technology devices by individuals with disabilities;. (3) Selecting, ...
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..., including how a broad range of assistive technology services and assistive technology devic... process and how those services and devices will be provided to individuals with disabilities ...