Product Solution Providers:

• ABLEDATA Putting assistive technology and disability related resources at your fingertips. ABLEDATA is an electronic database of information on assistive technology and rehabilitation equipment available in the United States.
• AbilityHub Assistive Technology for computers and disability. This Assistive Technology web site is for people with a disability, and will direct you to adaptive equipment for computers.
• Access.Adobe.Com Access.Adobe.Com is a tool that allows blind and visually impaired users to read any document in Adobe PDF format. The tool converts PDF documents into simple HTML or ASCII text which can then be read by a number of common screen reading programs that synthesize the HTML as audible speech.
• Access First Access First is about making things happen through quality assistive technology that promotes access for individuals with physical disabilities.
• Access Unlimited AccessAble Vehicles for People with Disabilities: Multi-Lift, Easy Seat, Drivematic, Easy Reach, Infra-Touch.
• Accessibility at FutureForms "Our mission is to develop electronic forms and workflow solutions that are useful for ALL employees. Our products will be developed with the ability to automatically be able to integrate with an accessibility device, allowing the exact same product to be used by ALL employees. ALL of the time."
• Adaptivation Adaptivation, Inc. is proud to be serving the adaptive equipment needs of individuals with severe and multiple disabilities. Born out of necessity, and founded in functionality, durability, and quality, every product Adaptivation offers emphasizes the qualities that are important to you and your clients, students, or relatives.
• Adaptive Environments Center This site includes information about the New England ADA Technical Assistance Center and two national programs of Adaptive Environments, the Universal Design Education Project and the ADA National Access for Public Schools Project. It also has links to many universal design and ADA resources.
• Adaptive Equipment Systems Adaptive Equipment Systems is dedicated to the design and fabrication of high quality seating and positioning products. Throughout all stages of the manufacturing process, improving the patients quality of life, as well as that of the primary care provider, is our main focus.
• ALTRA MicroPoint Comfortable like a mouse. Stationary like a trackball. Acurate like a tablet. Intuitive like a touchpad. Plus easy programmability and complete customizing options.
• A-MED Health Care Center A nationwide medical supply company.
• Amputee-Online.com The Online Resource for Amputees. Amputee WEB Site. Amputation Online magazine. Amputee Listserv. Personal WEB Pages. Commercial WEB Pages. Non - Profit WEB Pages. Special Projects.
• Apple Disability Site Disability Resources website. Apple is deeply committed to helping persons with special needs attain an unparalleled level of independence through a personal computer. Every Macintosh ships with rich, built-in features that support a positive user experience for disabled people. Welcome to our Disability Resources website - we care!
• Assistance Dogs International, Inc. Assistance Dogs International, Inc. is a coalition of not for profit organizations that train and place Assistance Dogs. The purpose of ADI is to improve the areas of training, placement, and utilization of Assistance Dogs as well as staff and volunteer education. Members of ADI meet annually to share ideas, attend seminars, and conduct business regarding such things as educating the public about Assistance Dogs, and the legal rights of people with disabilities partnered with Assistance Dogs, setting standards and establishing guidelines and ethics for the training of these dogs, and improving the utilization and bonding of each team. ADI also publishes a newsletter for members and subscribers. If you are a not for profit provider of Assistance Dogs, ADI membership will be a benefit to you, and you can be a part of ADI's mission.
• Assistive Technology, Inc. Assistive Technology, Inc. is dedicated to providing assistive technology and product solutions to individuals who experience learning, communication (conversational and written), and access difficulties. These product solutions allow persons with disabilities and chronic illnesses to communicate more effectively, enabling them to lead more independent and productive lives.
• Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Connecting Young Kids (YAACK) Home Page Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Connecting Young Kids (YAACK) is a website that covers issues related to AAC and young children. Its purpose is to provide information and guidance to families, teachers, speech/language pathologists and anyone else who is involved with a child with special communication needs. It is intended to be easy to understand and practical, and to cover a wide range of topics dealing with AAC and AAC-related issues of children at various ages and stages of communication ability, and with different strengths, disabilities and learning characteristics.
• Aurora Systems, Inc. Software for Special Needs This page provides information, updates, and patches for Aurora Systems' complete line of software for augmentative communication and learning disabilities.
• Beneficial Designs Welcome to the Beneficial Designs home page. We are an engineering and design firm specializing in technologies that enhance access for people of all abilities. We believe that all individuals should have access to the physical, intellectual, and spiritual aspects of life. To achieve these aims, we develop and market technologies for daily living, vocational, and leisure activities. Working towards universal access through research, design, and education.
• Bilbo Innovations, Inc. Three custom-programmable foot switches emulate Ctrl, Alt and Shift or any other keystrokes, sequences or even mouse clicks!
• Bodypoint Designs Online Bodypoint Designs is a manufacturer of high quality wheelchair seating accessories. Established in 1991, Bodypoint Designs has gone on to become a recognized leader in the field of rehab technology. Our products are made from the highest quality material to exacting specifications.
• Braille Translation with MegaDots from Raised Dot Computing This web document contains information on braille, on MegaDots, and the rest of the Raised Dot Computing product line. We want this web document to be informative as possible. Last modified May 29, 1997. We welcome visitors who are looking at this site because of the mention in Parade Magazine.
• Break Boundaries With Break Boundaries' REACH you can independently control all of the below products independently without the help of a nurse or caretaker. This can all be done by touching a screen, or completely hands-free by moving a body part, or simply speaking a command.
• Breathin’ Easy Travel Guide No matter how you travel, over 2,500 locations to refill your oxygen tanks, in over 1,600 cities in all 50 states. Dependence on oxygen does not have to keep you at home. Many resources are available to help you "hit the road.”
• Closing The Gap Closing The Gap is an internationally recognized source for information on innovative applications of computer technology in special education and rehabilitation.
• Concrete Change An international effort to make all homes visitable! Includes: What's At Stake, Construction Guidelines, Myths and Facts, Zero-Step Entrance, Construction Costs, Still to Come . . . Make Change!
• Disability & Resource Mall Easy-to-use directory designed and committed to featuring information on disability and medical products, resources and services in 90 categories with over 2,500 links including 300 companies for your one-stop shopping convenience.
• Disability Resource on the Internet The DRM WebWatcher features several hundred topics and disabilities, each on a separate page. Each topic or disability page includes links to pertinent web sites, documents, databases, and other informational materials of national or international interest.
• Disabilities Information Resources (DINF) DINF is New Jersey Non-Profit Corporation that collects information on disabilities and disabilities related subjects and makes it available through the World Wide Web. The information being placed on the Web site is designed for use by researchers, legislative bodies, people with disabilities, and people working in the disabilities field. Includes: International Organizations, Research and Conferences, National Information, Resources, Designing for Accessibility and Universal Accessibility, Software that may be Downloaded, Search the Whole Web Site (and the JSRPD Home Page in Japan).
• The Disability Related Book Store A wide ranging list of disability related books.
• DIMENET NETWORK DIMENET software is designed by technical experts and ILC associations in order to accommodate common assistive technology devices. Nationwide, ILC's have selected DIMENET as their telecommunications host to provide access to the Internet and to each other. DIMENET is an information source within the Internet, insuring equal access and enabling ILC's to fulfill their Congressional mandate.
• Dragon Systems Dragon Systems, Inc., is a leading worldwide supplier of speech and language technology, including award-winning speech recognition software. Dragon's goal is to "humanize" the interface between people and machines by expanding the use of speech, which is the most natural and efficient way for people to communicate.
• Durable Medical Equipment Durable Medical Equipment specializes in durable medical products such as power wheelchairs and other products from Invacare, to qualified patients for medical necessity. We accept assignments from Medicare in all regions, Medicaid in most states and can fill any order in any city of the United States.
• Dutcher's Digs Contains several examples of accessible homes. "This is a design for an affordable, accessible home that I would like to see built as a demonstration project. The narrow design was intentional so it could fit on a narrow, urban lot."
• DynaVox Systems Inc. Since 1983, DynaVox Systems Inc. has provided advanced augmentative communication solutions to thousands of people with speech, language, learning and physical disabilities from around the world. Pages for DynaVox If you have used a DynaVox device and you have not yet connected it to your computer, you have missed some great utilization opportunities. This website concerns itself with the opportunity to exchange pages between users. These same computer connections can, however, open up the user to the vast array of computer resources such as clip art, drawing programs and digital photography for making custom symbols.
• Electronic Speech Enhancement Inc Introducing The Speech EnhancerTM, a revolutionary new real-time signal processing technology for clarifying speech and improving comunications.
• Enabling Devices Welcome to our NEW Enabling Devices website! Enabling Devices is a company dedicated to developing affordable learning and assistive devices to help people of all ages with disabling conditions. To view a particular product category, click on the desired navigation button on the left.
• Freedom Scientific Blind/Low Vision Group Freedom Scientific Inc. is the world leader in the development, manufacture and marketing of technology products for people with blindness or vision impairment.
• Gus Communications, Multimedia Speech System for Windows The world's most popular software solutions for people with speech disorders and/or physical disabilities. A software program that converts any Windows™ compatible computer into a dynamic display communication system.
• HITEC Assistive Communication Products.
• IBM Special Needs Solutions "We see IBM technology as a way to enhance the employability, education, and quality of life of people who have disabilities. Under the Independence Series trademark, IBM has developed a number of assistive devices and software tools that make the computer more accessible and friendly to people who have vision, hearing, speech, mobility, and attention/memory disabilities."
• Independent Living Technologies Dedicated to providing an invaluable resource for people with disabilities by offering competitively priced quality assisted living technology and products.
• Infinitec Inc. Infinitec Inc. is a U.S. non-profit corporation formed to help people with disabilities and their families access life-enhancing technology. Infinitec is a joint effort of United Cerebral Palsy Associations Inc., Washington, D.C., and United Cerebral Palsy Association of Greater Chicago. Infinitec Inc. builds on technology-access programs offered by UCP affiliates around the nation, including a UCPA Chicago program, also called Infinitec, which aims to bring assistive technology to people with disabilities of all types in the Illinois counties of Cook, DuPage, Lake and Kane.
• Innoventions Electronic Magnifier The portable, affordable electronic magnifier for people with low vision.
• IntelliTools Inc. Quality Computer Products for People with Disabilities.
• The Internet Braille Wizard The only on-line braille translator on the internet! Also includes: Braille Labels - Braille Business Cards - Braille Documents, Products & Services, Braille By Mail.
• Kensington Check out Kensington's award-winning mice and trackballs.
• Keyboard Alternatives Products used to replace or enhance standard keyboard, including: split, contoured, and chording keyboards, and other keyboard alternatives/accessories.
• KY Enterprises Adaptive Products for Independent Living and Recreation for people who have limited use of their hands due to ALS, Arthritis, CP, MS, Quadriplegia. PRODUCTS INCLUDE: Adaptive Video Game Joysticks for Sony Playstation® and N64®, EZRA Environmental Control Unit (ECU) operates with a single switch, Sip/Puff Switch, Electric Bed Controller.
• Laureate Learning Systems, Inc. Software for People with Special Needs We offer 80 software packages for: Early Intervention, Preschool and Head Start, Developmental Disabilities, Language-Learning Disabilities, Title I Programs, English as a Second Language, Aphasia and Traumatic Brain Injury, Voice and Speech Disorders, Reading Difficulties.
• LeTourneau Lifelike Orthotics and Prosthetics Tom LeTourneau makes state-of-the-art artificial limbs, using silicone and computers to build a prosthesis that is about as close as it gets to the real thing. Tom LeTourneau has been providing service to S.E. Teaxs since 1989, and believes that amputees have the right to live as full and active a life as possible. "This business combines some science, a lot of art and old hands skills blended together."
• LC Technologies With our two systems, you can run a computer system with your eyes, or find out precisely where someone is looking.
• Logitech: Mice and Trackballs Logitech produces mice and trackballs that offer the ultimate in comfort, performance, and functionality. Drive one today.
• The Low-Vision Network The world-wide-web interface for the Low Vision Research Group (LVRG), providing an Internet resource for researchers, clinicians, and others with an interest in low vision. Here you can learn about recent and ongoing research in low vision, and find links to FAQs, support groups, discussion groups, and other resources for the low-vision community.
• Madenta Internet Accessibility Center - Home of Disability Solutions Madenta provides the most advanced solutions for computer access and home/office automation for people with physical disabilities. Madenta is dedicated to providing hardware and software solutions which promote independence and self reliance through computer technology.
• Mayer-Johnson Company Computer Software, Hardware, Symbol Products, Instructional Materials, Display Materials.
• MedMarket An easy to use directory designed, dedicated and committed to providing information on products and services in 6 different categories.
• Microsoft's Accessibilities and Disabilities Home Page Welcome to the Microsoft's new Accessibility and Disabilities Web site. We hope you'll find here information about what we're doing and the tools that can help you remove barriers and make the world more accessible.
• Mobility-Advisor.com: Live, Work and Play More Independently Educational resource with articles on wheelchairs, scooters, accessories, wheel chair sports, disabled travel, transportation, and assistive technology to enhance the lives of individuals of all ages who need mobility assistance.
• The National Center on Accessibility (NCA) Located at Indiana University's Bradford Woods, NCA provides technical assistance to organizations of all sizes who are designing and retrofitting their leisure areas and programs for accessibility. The NCA conducts, promotes, and facilitates research on issues essential to accessibility. This research shapes instruction for the nationally renowned NCA education programs conducted at the Center and throughout the United States. The NCA Staff assists organizations in all phases of development, encouraging understanding and involvement, and providing the expertise to assist those designing environments and programs to make them accessible. NCA serves organizations working to make the arts, beaches, sports, national monuments, resorts, amusement parks and playgrounds inclusive to all people.
• NaturalPoint Smart-Nav hands free mouse The naturalpoint Smart-Nav is the perfect hands free ergonomic mouse for people with carpal tunnel, RSI and disabilities. Increase productivity by simply moving your head to control your computer with our ergonomic mouse alternative.
• The New England Assistive Technology Exchange The New England Regional Assistive Technology Exchange enables consumers and professionals to access a variety of assistive technology by providing a forum to list equipment available for sale, loan, exchange or donation. This process is convenient, easy to use and accessible to everyone. Any individual, agency or organization can be part of the Exchange!
• NORTHEAST PASSAGE ! Northeast Passage is an impact program designed to improve recreational access. Recreation has been proven to hold one of the keys to a positive, healthy, and fulfilling life. Recreation can offer mastery over physical skills and a means to reduce stress. We believe there is a solution to every problem preventing independent access to recreation. Our consumers identify the problems, and with their help we develop a program designed to fit their needs.
• Prentke Romich Company (PRC): Communication Aids and other Assistive Technology PRC has representatives throughout the United States and the world to provide the best customer support in the industry. Augmentative Communication, Computer Access, Environmental Controls, Employment Opportunities, PRC Consultants, Electronic Library.
• Proportional Reading Instant Computer Assisted Reading of Any Text. This program enables poor, average and new readers (elementary, adult and ESL) to immediately read like good readers. Provides immediate reading ability for individuals with Macular Degeneration and Brain Trauma. Have any book or text instantly read out loud in Real Human Voice in fluent speech as the text is displayed on the screen one word at a time, or one sentence at a time....
• Pulsar Just Imagine: You are paralyzed and can move nothing but your face. Or you have some form of cognitive impairment/mental retardation. Pulsar has solutions for these problems.
• Quartet Technology Incorporated Quartet Technology Incorporated is the world leader in ECU technology and offers a wide array of products to suit the needs of its clients. Our products make every aspect of home and business life accessible, from controlling telephones and lights to using computers and VCRs. Our products range in capability from the Voice Activated ECU, Switch Activated ECU and Voice & Switch Activated ECU, to our state-of-the-art Voice Mouse/Keyboard Controller, which makes the world of computing and the INTERNET accessible. Quartet Technology Incorporated has a well-deserved reputation for pushing the bounds of ECU technology and our latest offerings continue this tradition.
• RJ Cooper & Associates 0ur assistive technology enables people with disabilities to do more with computers! Our company is a small development company that makes products for persons with special needs, including special software and hardware adaptations for persons with very special needs.
• Sensus ApS Sensus is a Danish consultancy organisation chartered with the development of computerised tools and electronic publications for the blind and partially sighted. Most tools and technologies are developed in close co-operation with RefsnÊsskolen and Blindeinstituttet, Denmark. In addition to our software products, we offer a number of high-quality consultancy services to commercial companies, government agencies, interest groups and individuals. Our services include advise and recommendations with respect to the development and integration of tools for the visually disabled, and the structure, format, transformation, translation and publication of electronic and printed documents for people with a visual disability.
• Solutions for Humans We strive to improve the human condition in lasting ways by using innovative technology and resources. Since 1989 the staff of Solutions for Humans has implemented solutions for: Return-to-work Return-to-school Return-to-life We remain the premier source of solutions, consulting, training, evaluation and implementation of solutions for individuals and organizations addressing sight loss, physical impairment, ergonomic issues, communication and hearing disorders
• Speach to Text Synthesis Info Since the personal computer was born, speech technology has made tremendous strides, slowly working its way from games to the office desktop, with prices dropping all the while. Faster Pentium-class computers and 32 megabytes of memory provide a solid platform for running speech applications. The Sound Blaster card and its clones provide the audio component at a cost-efficient price. Clearly, the goal of many speech developers is to make their products available to the consumer market, which means you'll start seeing more speech-enabled applications in the computer stores. Many of these products will be in the $100 to $200 range. Speech has put itself squarely in the mainstream, and the technology has taken a giant step toward replacing the keyboard. Where to Find
• Universal Basic Access to Homes People who use wheelchairs, walkers and other mobility aids are blocked by steps at every entrance of a home. They're stopped by inches from fitting through the bathroom door in a friend or relative¼s home. Constructing homes without these barriers is inexpensive and easy. So why is it still happening?? Builders, Contractors, Advocates, Legislators, Realtors, Designers, Freedom Fighters, Architects, Boat Rockers, Wonks, Webmasters, Curious Bystanders, Community Development Groups, Government Workers, Medical Workers, Journalists, Friends... Here you'll find resources to change the status quo.
• Vivax Medical Corporation Vivax Medical Corporation is a developer and manufacturer of complex durable medical equipment. The Company specializes in therapeutic beds and accessories -- all designed to increase patient comfort and care, while reducing costs for the health care provider.
• Wheelchairs for Humanity Each year in the United States, tens of thousands of wheelchairs are thrown away and end up in landfills. Over 300,000 are retired into attics, basements and back closets. Our goal is to put these discarded wheelchairs back into service. Help the disadvantaged disabled around the world to re-enter their societies through the gift of a wheelchair.We collect used wheelchairs. Partnering with other relief and development agencies, we restore and distribute them at no cost to people who need them in places where wheelchairs are unattainable luxuries.
• Wheelchair Foundation The Wheelchair Foundation is a nonprofit organization leading an international effort to deliver a wheelchair to every man, woman and child in the world who needs one. For those individuals, the Wheelchair Foundation offers freedom, self-reliance, mobility and hope.
• Wide Vision Productions' Wide Vision Productions' mission is to impact how people with disabilities are represented in media. We aim to achieve this goal by producing materials and providing services that educate the general public as well as the disability community from the perspective of people with disabilities.
• World Wide Wheelchairs & Used Medical Equipment "World Wide Wheelchairs exploded into a company that was needed throughout the world! As you can see by my prices they are WAY lower then ANY dealer in THE WORLD!! We have sent medical equipment and Wheelchairs to Chile, Mexico, Jamaica, Canada, England, Brazil and all over the U.S. So I say goodbye to the unfortunate high prices that many large companies have to charge! Hello to low priced disability and medical equipment, WE ARE ALL GOING TO NEED! This site is dedicated to the many individuals who have no insurance!"
• ZYGO Industries ZYGO has set the standard of high-tech, yet easy to use augmentative communication systems for profoundly physically disabled individuals since 1974. We manufacture and distribute augmentative communication systems, computer access and other assistive technologies.ZYGO has set the standard of high-tech, yet easy to use augmentative communication systems for profoundly physically disabled individuals since 1974. We manufacture and distribute augmentative communication systems, computer access and other assistive technologies.