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Index
Alabama - Alaska - Arkansas - Arizona - California - Colorado - Connecticut - Florida - Georgia - Hawaii - Idaho - Illinois - Indiana - Iowa - Kansas - Kentucky - Louisiana - Maine - Maryland - Massachusetts - Michigan - Minnesota - Mississippi - Missouri - Nebraska - Nevada - New Hampshire - New Jersey - New York - North Carolina - North Dakota - Ohio - Oklahoma - Oregon - Pennsylvania - Rhode Island - South Carolina - South Dakota - Tennessee - Texas - Utah - Vermont - Virginia - Washington - Washington, D.C. - Wisconsin - Wyoming
Alabama
Alabama Dept of Rehabilitaion Services
602 South Lawrence Street
Montgomery, AL 36104
USA
Contact email: speech@rehab.alabama.gov
Contact phone: 800.441.7607 or 334.293.7500
Website: www.rehab.state.al.us
Who is served: Alabama residents
Brief description: The Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services (ADRS) is a state agency whose primary responsibility is providing services to Alabama’s children, teenagers, and adults with disabilities. ADRS services are provided through 33 community-based offices, reaching residents in all 67 counties. Unique in the nation, the department provides a “continuum of services” from birth through old age for Alabamians with disabilities. With individualized services provided in homes, schools, the workplace, and the community, ADRS assists every person in achieving his or her maximum potential.
T.A.S.C. of UCP in Huntsville and Tennessee Valley
1856 Keats Drive
Huntsville, AL 35810
USA
Contact person: Lisa Snyder or Laura Parks
Contact email: tasc@ucphuntsville.org
Contact phone: (256)859-8300
Website: tasc.ataccess.org
Who is served: Anyone in Alabama
Brief description: T.A.S.C. is a training and AT and AAC evaluation center. We provide loans and free informational sessions. We are recognized as a MARC’s resource center, an ASHA provider, and an ATA Center.
Univ. of AL Speech & Hearing Center
700 University Blvd. E, Room 145
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487
USA
Contact person: Candace Cook
Contact email: CHCook@as.ua.edu
Contact phone: (205) 348-7131
Website: web.as.ua.edu/cd/speech-and-hearing-center/
Who is served: Aynone in Central and West Alabama
Brief description: The University of Alabama Speech and Hearing Center, located on the campus of the University, serves a variety of children, students, and adults with a variety of needs and abilities, including children with ASD, developmental delays, and augmentative needs, as well as adults with voice, fluency, cognitive, and other communication impairments. Services are provided year-round by experienced, licensed, and nationally certified speech-language pathologist and audiologists who direct and supervise students in diagnostic and rehabilitative procedures.
United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Birmingham
120 Oslo Circle
Birmingham, AL 35213
USA
Contact person: Jenny Dumas
Contact email: jdumas@ucpbham.com
Contact phone: 205-943-5223
Website: www.ucpbham.com
Who is served: Aynone in our state.
Brief description: United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Birmingham provides quality programs and services for over 3,600 infants, children and adults with disabilities in Birmingham and the surrounding 10 counties. It is a privately and publicly funded nonprofit organization and is accredited by CARF, the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities. United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Birmingham is an affiliate of UCP, Inc., nationally recognized for quality services and is a United Way Agency. We spend 93 cents of every dollar to directly benefit programs and services.
Hand in Hand was named Organization of the Year by Childcare Resources and Organization of the Year at the Alabama Early Intervention and Preschool Conference. UCP of Greater Birmingham also received the National Program of the Year award from United Cerebral Palsy Associations.
Alaska
Assistive Technology of Alaska - ATLA
3330 Arctic Blvd.
Ste. 101
Anchorage, AK 99503
USA
Contact person: Mystie Rail or Margaret Cisco
Contact email: mystie@atlaak.org or margaret@atlaak.org
Contact phone: 907-563-2599
Website: www.atlaak.org
Who is served: Anyone in Alaska
Brief description: Assistive Technology of Alaska (ATLA) connects Alaskans who have disabilities with the tools they need to learn, work, play, and participate in community life safely and independently. ATLA offers statewide no-cost equipment demonstrations, information and assistance, short term loans (as items are available) and awareness activities. Staff help search for funding options, develop partnerships with state agencies and organizations, and publish resource materials. ATLA coordinates the statewide Alaska Trading Post, an on-line searchable database of used equipment and AT devices as part of the state’s re-utilization program. ATLA offers fee-for-service assessments, trainings and technical assistance in addition to re-selling assistive technology. ATLA staff does not advocate for or recommend specific devices or software programs. They provide consumers with enough knowledge to make “informed choices” about different technologies that meet their needs and skills. Consumers are encouraged to tryout their selections at their local demonstration center.
Special Education Service Agency
Special Education Service Agency
3501 Denali
Anchorage, AK 99503
USA
Contact person: Anne Freitag
Contact email: afreitag@sesa.org
Contact phone: 907-334-1300
Website: www.sesa.org
Who is served: School districts in rural and remote Alaska
Brief description: The Special Education Service Agency is home to our core services for students aged 3-21 who experience low incidence disabilities such as cognitive impairments, physical disabilities, other health impairments, vision impairments, deafness, deaf-blind and hard of hearing. School districts in rural and remote Alaska that provide services to students with low incidence disabilities are eligible for SESA services.
Akiak School
Akiak School
PO Box 52049
Akiak, AK 99552
USA
Contact person: Beth Weltner
Contact email: eweltner@yupiit.org
Contact phone: 907-765-4602
Website: www.yupiit.org
Who is served: Members of the Yupiit School District, LKSD, Y-K Delta of Alaksa.
Brief description: Akiak School is a small K-12 school located 40 river miles upstream from Bethel, Alaska. It is part of the Yupiit School District. We are located on the middle Kuskokwim River, which is part of the Yukon Kuskokwim Delta in Alaska.
Arkansas
Saint Mary’s Outpatient Therapy Center
Saint Mary’s Outpatient Therapy Center
809 West Main St.
Russellville, AR 72801
USA
Contact person: Steve Morgan MS, OTR/L Cristi Harris, MSE, CCC-SLP
Contact email: steve.morgan@saintmarysregional.com
Contact phone: 479-968-3733
Website: www.saintmarysregional.com/
Who is served: Adults in Arkansas
Brief description: Saint Mary’s Outpatient Therapy Center’s interdisciplinary team provides evaluation, treatment, and consultation for adults with a variety of neurological and physiological impairments. Our physical, occupational, and speech therapists work in conjunction to rehabilitate the whole patient—addressing mobility, activities of daily living, and communication needs for a variety of diagnoses.
Arizona
Coester Cares Therapy Services
4001 E. Baseline Rd. Suite B1
Gilbert, AZ 85234
USA
Contact person: Jenna Burningham
Contact email: Jenna@cctsaz.com
Contact phone: 480-539-5629
Website: www.coestertherapyservices.com
Who is served: Anyone in Maricopa County
Brief description: Our mission at Coester Cares Therapy Services is to provide quality services to special needs individuals with the intent of achieving attainable goals so that they may function as an integral part of our society. Coester Cares has been providing therapy services for children and adolescents with special needs in the Phoenix Metropolitan area since 2004. We provide in-home and clinic based Speech therapy, Physical therapy, Occupational therapy, and Music therapy, as well as Habilitation, Attendant Care, and Respite. The majority of clients we support are through the Arizona Department of Economic Security the Division of Developmental Disabilities. Our therapists are well educated and experienced within their field. CCTS offers a generous continued education package to our therapists to keep them up to date with the newest methods and techniques.
Collier Elementry
3600 E Bear Canyon Rd
Tucson, AZ 85748
USA
Contact person: Lori Barnes
Contact email: lori.barnes@TUSD1.org
Contact phone: 520-907-7318
Website: edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/collier/
Who is served: Members of our school district
Brief description: We are a full inclusion elementary school. All of our students attend a general education classroom. Adoptions and accommodations completed if indicated.
Upward Foundation
6306 N 7th Street
Phoenix, AZ 85014
USA
Contact person: Jeremy Legaspi, M.S.,CCC-SLP
Contact email: jeremy.legaspi@upwardfoundation.org
Contact phone: 602-279-5801- Ext 216
Website: www.upwardforchildren.org
Who is served: Anyone in Arizona.
Brief description: Upward Foundation is a Nonprofit Organization dedicated to improving the lives of children and families with special needs through education, therapy, and loving care. We believe that all children and families with special needs can reach their potential with a little help and loving care in the form of education and therapies.
California
Adaptive Technology Assessment Center
ATAC/VC SELPA
5100 Adolfo Road
Camarillo, CA 93012
USA
Contact person: Sharon Redner
Contact email: sredner@vcoe.org
Contact phone: (805) 437-1575
Website: www.venturacountyselpa.com/atac.htm
Who is served: Members of schools in Ventura County
Brief description: The main purpose of ATAC (Adaptive Technology Assessment Center) is to provide direct assessment services to students, resulting in recommendaitons for meeting the needs of these students for picture symbol communication systems, electronic communication devices, and/or adaptive technology which might include computer access, specialied sofware, or other assistive equipment.
San Marino School
6215 San Rolando Way
Buena Park, Ca 90620
Contact person: Linda Kendrick
Contact email: Linda_Kendrick@cesd.us
Contact phone: 714-228-3280
Website: www.cesd.us/education/school/school.php?sectionid=10&
Who is served: Members of schools in the Southern California region
Brief description: San Marino is a pre-K-6 grade public school serving a lower socioeconomic population. The school offers programs which include Resource Specialist Program, Response to Intervention Learning Center, State Preschool and 3 Severely Handicapped Classrooms.
Sonoma County SELPA Adaptive Technology Center
@ La Fiesta Education Center
8511 Liman Way, Bldg. B3
Rohnert Park, CA 94928
USA
Contact person: Debra Wilcox
Contact email: dwilcox@sonomaselpa.org
Contact phone: 707-829-8528
Website: None
Who is served: Sonoma County Schools, California.
Brief description: We provide AT & AAC evaluation, consultation, and training services to school districts throughout Sonoma County, California.
Jodie K. Schuller and Associates
2002 Jimmy Durante Blvd Ste 304
Del Mar, CA 92014-2258
USA
Contact person: Kim Stone
Contact email: kstoneslp@gmail.com
Contact phone: (858) 509-1131
Website: www.speak4success.com
Who is served: San Diego County
Brief description: Jodie K. Schuller and Associates is a private practice speech-language pathology and academic tutoring clinic specializing in evaluation and treatment for children of all ability levels. We have therapists with specific training in augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) evaluation and intervention using a variety of high and low-tech communicative devices and modalities.
The Bridge School
545 Eucalyptus Ave.
Hillsborough, CA 94010
USA
Contact person: Kristen Gray
Contact email: outreach@bridgeschool.org
Contact phone: 650-696-7295
Website: www.bridgeschool.org
Who is served: We provide information and demonstration of equipment during specific Bridge School sponsored events. San Francisco Bay Area.
Brief description: An innovative organization educating children with severe speech and physical impairments through the use of: (1) creative approaches to education and communication; (2) augmentative and alternative communication systems and assistive technology; (3) extensive involvement of families and community. The Bridge School is composed of four interrelated programs: Education, Transition, Outreach and Research. Explore our Web site to learn about who we are, what we believe, and ways you can benefit and contribute to the ongoing programs, projects, and activities that move all people closer to a life without barriers to education, participation and communication.
Parents Helping Parents iTECH Center
Sobrato Center for Nonprofits
1400 Parkmoor Ave, Suite 100
San Jose, CA 95126
USA
Contact person: Janet Nunez
Contact email: janet@php.com
Contact phone: (408)727-5775
Website: www.php.com/services/itech
Who is served: Aynone in Santa Clara County, San Mateo County, Santa Cruz County, and anyone who can make it here
Brief description: We are the largest preview and demonstration center for Assistive Technology in the South Bay Area. We serve families, and the professionals who work with them, in providing information about, training on, and "hands on" time with different assistive technologies.
Palo Alto Unified School District
780 Arastradero Road
Palo Alto, CA 94306
USA
Contact person: Jen Dorwin
Contact email: jdorwin@pausd.org
Contact phone: 650-346-4588
Website: www.pausd.org
Who is served: Palo Alto - possibly Santa Clara County
Brief description: We are a k-12 public school district with a growing AT/AAC department.
KACCD at San Jose State University
One Washington Square
San Jose, CA 95192-0079
USA
Contact person: Wendy Quach
Contact email: wendy.quach@sjsu.edu
Contact phone: 408.924.3682
Website: www.jsu.edu/cds/clinic/
Who is served: Anyone in Santa Clara County
Brief description: The Kay Armstead Center for Communicative Disorders (KACCD) provides clinical services in speech, language and hearing evaluations, treatments and consultations. KACCD serves both the SJSU and south bay communities. Students, faculty, staff and local residents are welcome to inquire about our services. Referrals are accepted at any time. We seek a range of clients for our center, in terms of both age and disorder. We are qualified to diagnose and treat disorders in the areas of articulation, phonology, language, stuttering, voice, hearing, oral motor, cognition and social aspects of communication, and complex communication needs.
Access Ingenuity
3635 Montgomery Dr.
Santa Rosa, CA 95405
USA
Contact person: Michael Parker
Contact email: michaelp@accessingenuity.com
Contact phone: 707-579-4380
Website: www.accessingenuity.com
Who is served: Anyone in California
Brief description: Access Ingenuity was founded in January 2002, to provide assistive technology and complete accessible solutions designed to meet the needs of an individual, institution, school, or organization. We offer work-site evaluations, system integration, and training to people with disabilities and disability support agencies. Our expertise is in the area of assistive technology for low vision and blindness, speech, hearing, learning disabilities, and physical impairments.
Autism Epicenter
Redding, CA
USA
Contact person: Shane L. Nurnberg
Contact email: http://www.autismepicenter.com/cont...
Contact phone: (530) 226-5129
Website: www.AutismEpicenter.com
Who is served: Anyone in our county
Brief description: Autism Epicenter is an online autism resource for parents of children with ASD. The site contains lots of information that is often well-hidden on larger sites, and this info comes from a parent’s viewpoint, since I have an 8-year-old son with autism.
Central Coast Assistive Technology Center
3450 Broad St, Suite 111
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
USA
Contact person: Paul Mortola
Contact email: slomortola@aol.com
Contact phone: 805-549-7420
Website: www.ccatc.org
Who is served: Evaluations: San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura counties; Loan unit: statewide
Brief description: The Central Coast Assistive Technology Center (CCATC) is a non-profit that provides AT evaluation, training & education, demonstration and loan library services. Since 1999, CCATC has provided evaluation and training services to individuals with disabilities in the Tri-Counties area (San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura counties. Staff is comprised of occupational therapists and a speech-language pathologist consultant. Services are primarily mobile-based (for evaluations and training). CCATC is part of a statewide loan library program (AT Exchange) and has an extensive library of AT devices.
Newark Unified School District
5715 Musick Avenue
Newark, CA 94560
USA
Contact person: Jayne Fong
Contact email: jfong@nusd.k12.ca.us
Contact phone: (510) 818- 3519
Website: www.nusd.ca.schoolloop.com/
Who is served: Students in Newark Unified School District
Brief description: Newark Unified is a K-12 public school district in the Mission Valley SELPA. Our district goal is to cultivate an exceptional learning community where all students are engaged in their learning, challenged to strive for excellence and achieving their fullest potential. We have a growing AT/AAC Team.
EmpowerTech
6234 W. 87th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90045
USA
Contact person: Joan Anderson
Contact email: info@empowertech.org
Contact phone: 310 338-1597
Website: www.empowertech.org
Who is served: Anyone in LA and surrounding counties
Brief description: The mission of EmpowerTech is to educate, train, support, and empower people with physical and developmental disabilities through assistive technology (AT). The world of computers and other technology blossomed in the 70’s and early 80’s. But, many people with disabilities were unable to access that world. Then, in 1986, a group of concerned parents and other professionals in the Los Angeles area changed that. They created the Computer Access Center dedicated to bringing the creativity of assistive technology to people with disabilities. Today, the agency now known as EmpowerTech, is helping more people in better ways than ever. With EmpowerTech’s knowledge of state-of-the art software and hardware and association with software and hardware vendors and developers, EmpowerTech is able to bring its clients the very latest in assistive technology.
NettieT, ATP Consultants
NettieT, ATP Consultants
9008 Plaza Park Drive
Elk Grove, CA 95624
USA
Contact person: Nettie Fischer
Contact email: nettiet@gmail.com
Contact phone: 916-222-3492
Website: www.nettietatpconsultants.com
Who is served: Members of schools in Sacramento County Office of Education (SCOE) and outlying schools and Northern California Alta Regional Center (vendored service provider).
Brief description: NettieT, ATP Consultants provides Training Presentations and direct assessments services to district employees, students and regional center clients in the area of assistive technology resulting in recommendations for meeting the adaptive technology needs of these students and clients and, working collaboratively with site based speech and language specialists to support their alternative communication needs.
Crimson Center for Speech and Language
9606 Tierra Grande
Suite 107
San Diego
California 92126
USA
935 West San Marcos Blvd.
Suite 101
San Marcos
California 92078
USA
Contact person: Yawi Griffini
Contact email: info@crimsoncenter.com
Contact phone: 858-695-9415
Website: www.crimsoncenter.com
Who is served: Anyone in San Diego Country, California
Brief description: Crimson Center for Speech & Language is a well-established, community-based center providing direct speech language and related services to enhance communication and interactive skills of individuals across the lifespan. Crimson Center also has a non-profit component, which conducts collaborative research projects focused on improving treatment for individuals with communication disorders.
Morgan Autism Center
Morgan Autism Center
2280 Kenwood Ave.
San Jose, CA 95128
USA
Contact person: Danielle Samson, M.A. CCC-SLP
Contact email: dsamson@paspeech.com
Website: www.morgancenter.org
Who is served: Residents of Santa Clara County, San Mateo County and Santa Cruz County.
Brief description: Serving the community since 1969, Morgan Autism Center is a non public school. It has been providing positive, highly structured educational programs for pre-school and school-age children with autism and other developmental disabilities in Santa Clara, San Mateo and other Bay Area counties. In 1985, an Adult Program was introduced, focusing on vocational independent living skills, and continued academic enrichment. We have highly trained AAC/AT specialists and staff who work diligently to improve the communication skills of all of our students.
Starfish Hero
McKinleyville
CA 95519
USA
Contact person: Kirstin Hall
Contact email: kirstin@starfishhero.com
Website: www.StarfishHero.com
Who is served: Anyone in our country
Brief description: We are a Nationwide company, our mission is to guide and support families effected by developmental delays by designing quality educational and behavioral programs for their children. As the quest for a cure continues, we feel it is our duty as Specialists to do everything we can to help families improve their quality of life and lead their children down a path of functional independence. We strive for each family we work with to feel they are a priority, they are not alone, and to be reassured they will not become lost in the shuffle.
McRory Pediatric Services
17609 Ventura Blvd
Suite 215
Encino, CA 91316
USA
Contact person: Jana Goodstadt
Contact email: jana.goodstadt@mcrorypediatrics.com
Contact phone: 818-788-1812
Website: mcrorypediatrics.com/home.html
Who is served: Anyone in Los Angeles County, San Fernando Valley
Brief description: McRory Pediatric Services offers a variety of center-based and community-based quality early intervention services for infants, toddlers, preschool and school aged children. Our services include speech-language therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy, child development, behavior therapy, parent education, and counseling services.
[Cameron Roberts Speech Therapy, Inc.]
5315 Avenida Encinas, Suite 250
Carlsbad, CA 92024
USA
Contact person: Cameron Roberts
Contact email: cameron@goodtherapyworks.com
Contact phone: 760-918-9500
Who is served: Anyone in North Coastal San Diego
Brief description: Small private practice serving children with a variety of communication disorders/delays.
Colorado
Jill Tullman & Associates, LLC
8030 East Cedar Avenue
Denver, CO 80230
USA
Contact person: Jill Tullman
Contact email: jtullman@aac-therapy.com
Contact phone: 303-641-1285
Website: www.aac-therapy.com
Who is served: Anyone in the USA
Brief description: Jill Tullman & Associates, LLC is an augmentative communication private practice serving children and adults who have complex communication needs and use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC).
AAC Specialists LLC
1885 Cherryville Road
Greenwood Village, CO 80121
USA
Contact person: Renee Karantounis
Contact email: aacspecialists@comcast.net
Contact phone: (303) 204-5188
Website: none
Who is served: Adults in Denver and the surrounding areas.
Brief description: AAC Specialists LLC specializes in evaluation, treatment, training and consultation services for adults who require Augmentative and Alternative Communication solutions.
North Colorado Medical Center
1517 - 16th Ave. Court
Greeley, CO 80631
USA
Contact person: Katherine Swafford
Contact email: Katherine.Swafford@bannerhealth.com
Contact phone: (970) 350-6792
Website: www.bannerhealth.com/Locations/Colorado/North+Colorado+Medical+Center/Programs+and+Services/Rehabilitation/Outpatient+Rehab/_Outpatient+Rehabilitation.htm
Who is served: Anyone from Northern Colorado or Southern Wyoming.
Brief description: Hospital-based Outpatient Rehabilitation Center.
Connecticut
CREC River Street Autism Program at Coltsville
34 Sequassen Street
Hartford, CT 06106
USA
Contact person: Arlene Dworkin Kaye
Contact email: akaye@crec.org
Contact phone: 860 727-8481
Website: www.crec.org
Who is served: Only public school referrals in the Capitol Region
Brief description: CREC River Street is a regional "resc" that services children diagnosed on the autism spectrum aged 3-11. It is one of the most well respected, evidence based programs in the country. Our clinical director, Dr. Kathy Dyer is an SLP, BCBA. I am as well. Our school currently services 47 children, offering early, intensive educational programming 12 months per year.
New England Assistive Technology Resource Center
120 Holcomb St.
Hartford, CT 06112
USA
Contact person: Nicole Feeney
Contact email: feeneyn@ciboakhill.org
Contact phone: 860-286-3101
Website: www.neatmarketplace.org
Who is served: Anyone in New England
Brief description: NEAT provides products and services to people of all ages with disabilities (intellectual, developmental, physical disabilities including visual impairments) each year. They include the NEAT equipment resource center, assistive technology evaluations, professional development, technical assistance and more.
EASTCONN
10 Commerce Drive
Columbia, CT 06237
USA
Contact person: Carol L. Magliocco
Contact email: cmagliocco@eastconn.org
Contact phone: 860 228-3483
Website: www.eastconn.org
Who is served: Members of school districts in eastern Connecticut.
Brief description: EASTCONN’s assistive technology team includes the range of related service personnel to best meet student needs. Professional backgrounds include special educator, physical therapist, occupational therapist and speech language pathologists.
Gaylord Hospital
PO Box 400
Gaylord Farms Road
Wallingford, CT 06492
USA
Contact person: Kimberly Tuccitto, M.S., CCC/SLP
Contact email: Ktuccitto@gaylord.org
Contact phone: (203) 284-2810
Website: www.gaylord.org
Who is served: Anyone in Southern New England.
Brief description: Gaylord Hospital is a long-term acute care hospital that specializes in the care and treatment of medically complex patients, rehabilitation and sleep medicine. We provide specialized care services to manage medical conditions, so that patients with catastrophic or acute illnesses and injuries can work toward recovery. As a long-term acute care hospital, Gaylord is staffed and equipped to handle the specific needs of acutely ill or chronically disabled patients who require a hospital level of care. Gaylord Hospital also is able to treat those who need rehabilitation for illnesses or injuries related to the brain and nervous system, bones and joints, lungs, and other conditions. This way, we can continue to meet our patients’ needs through every stage of their recovery. Licensed as a 137-bed chronic disease hospital, Gaylord is located on 500 acres of countryside in Wallingford, Connecticut.
Regional Assistive Technology Center at CES
25 Oakview Dr.
Trumbull, CT 06611
USA
Contact person: Laura Giovanetti
Contact email: giovanel@ces.k12.ct.us
Contact phone: 203-365-8891
Website: www.ces.k12.ct.us/page.cfm?p=2547
Who is served: Members of schools in Fairfield County, CT.
Brief description: Our center provides evaluations, technical support and AT loaning for the 15 school districts. We are a regional educational service center in southwest CT. The AT Center has been around for 15 years. We have an AAC Specialist on staff as well as a social education teacher well versed in AT. We conduct up to 60-80 evaluations a school year as well as provide inservice trainings on a variety of AT topics. We are also a preview center for Crick software and Don Johnston and have a variety of other AT and AAC software available for preview.
Area Cooperative Educational Services
31 Temple Street
North Haven, CT 06473
USA
Contact person: Nancy Shuster
Contact email: nshuster@aces.org
Contact phone: (203) 407-4464
Website: www.aces.org/departments/pupil_services/assttech.aspx
Who is served: Schools in the following towns: Ansonia, North Haven, Bethany, Orange, Branford, Oxford, Cheshire, Regional District 5, Derby, Regional District 13, East Haven, Regional District 16, Hamden, Seymour, Meriden, Wallingford, Middletown, Waterbury, Milford, West Haven, Naugatuck, Wolcott, New Haven, Woodbridge, North Branford.
Brief description: ACES Assistive Technology Services is an assistive technology program offered by ACES to the local school districts. The program strives to actualize each student’s educational and functional potential. ACES uses a team-oriented decision making process in the selection, acquisition and use of the assistive device(s). This program complies with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (1990, 1997, 2004) which specifies the consideration and inclusion of assistive technology as an integral part of the student’s Individualized Educational Plan.
Center for Adaptive Technology
Center for Adaptive Technology
Southern Connecticut State University
EN B-017
501 Crescent St.
New Haven, CT 06515
USA
Contact person: Scott Russell
Contact email: catlpscsu@gmail.com
Contact phone: 203-392-5799
Website: www.southernct.edu/adaptive_tech/
Who is served: Members of schools in Connecticut
Brief description: The Center for Adaptive Technology is a division of Instructional Technology and the Office of Information Technology at Southern Connecticut State University. It was established in 1989 through a resolution of the Board of Trustees of the Connecticut State University System. The center enables people with physical, visual and learning disabilities to gain access to computer technology to achieve their academic goals.
Reachout, Inc.
Reachout, Inc.
60 Connolly Pkwy. #17A
Hamden, CT 06514
USA
Contact person: Rita Esposito
Contact email: respo@reachoutinc.org
Contact phone: 203-230-2815
Website: www.reachoutinc.org
Who is served: Anyone in New Haven, Middlesex, eastern Fairfield counties in Connecticut.
Brief description: Reachout, Inc. is a pediatric therapeutic and special educational agency which provides Birth to Three home-based services within 22 towns in southern CT. Reachout also offers out-patient rehabilitation speech, occupational and physical therapy at its offices.Our needs of our young clients represent a wide range of developmental delays and diagnosed conditions. Our staff is experienced in the assessment, creation, and/or procurement of various forms of low to high tech assistive technology, including AAC. We partner with families and collaborate with educational program throughout the process.
Florida
Alachua County Public Schools
Manning Center
620 E. University Avenue
Gainesville, FL 32601
USA
Contact person: Elisa Wern
Contact email: werned@gm.sbac.edu
Contact phone: 352-955-7676
Website: www.sbac.edu/ ese/
Who is served: Members of schools in Region 2 Area in Florida.
Brief description: We provide assistive technology services within our local school district, as well as through a Regional AT center in North Central Florida. Our network of Local Assistive Technology Specialists provide these services.
Academy for Autism
5232 B South orange Avenue
Orlando, FL 32809
USA
Contact person: Zulma Rivas-Vitell
Contact email: academy4autism@hotmail.com
Contact phone: 407-852-9922
Website: www.academyforautism.org
Who is served: Anyone in Florida.
Brief description: We are a private non profit school for autistic children as well as a mulltidisciplinary clinic providing speech therapy, physical therapy, and occupational therapy. We specialize in using AAC devices for our nonverbal children both in the classroom, home setting, and in the community.
FAAST Atlantic Region Assistive Technology Demonstration Center
University of Central Florida Communication Disorders Clinic
12424 Research Parkway, Suite 155 (Research Pavilion)
Orlando, FL 32826
USA
Contact person: Pamela Resnick, M.A., CCC-SLP
Contact email: presnick@mail.ucf.edu
Contact phone: 407-882-0468
Website: www.cohpa.ucf.edu/comdis/clinicfaast.cfm
Who is served: Volusia, Seminole, Osceola, Orange, Brevard, Indian River, Okeechobee, St. Lucie, Martin & Palm Beach Counties.
Brief description: The FAAST Atlantic Region Assistive Technology Demonstration Center is housed within the Communication Disorders Clinic at the University of Central Florida. The FAAST Center serves the needs of individuals with disabilities across the range of age and disability. The specialty focus of the FAAST Center is augmentative and alternative communication. Speech-language pathology, audiology, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and educational staff members are available to oprovide assistive technology demonstrations, assessments, and therapy.
FAAST Central Regional Demonstration Center
Tampa General Hospital Rehabilitation Center
6 Tampa General Circle, Room 214
Tampa, FL 33606
USA
Contact person: Nancy Mashberg, M.A
Contact email: faastcen@tgh.org
Contact phone: 813.844-7591
Website: www.FAAST.org/programs/regional-demo/central
Who is served: Counties of Citrus, DeSoto, Sumter, Hernando, Highlands, Hillsborough, Lake, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, and Sarasota.
Brief description: We are a Regional Demonstration Center for FAAST, Florida Alliance for Assistive Services and Technology, Florida’s Assistive Technology Act Program. Serving Central Florida, we provide hands-on demonstrations of assistive technology devices, information and referral services, presentations and training for groups, and an adapted toy lending library. Devices demonstrated in our Center may be borrowed from the statewide device lending library.
Island Dolphin Care
150 Lorelane Place
Key Largo
Florida 33037
USA
Contact person: Deena Hoagland
Contact email: Fonzie@islanddolphincare.org
Contact phone: 305-451-5884
Website: www.islanddolphincare.org
Who is served: Anyone in the USA
Brief description: Island DOlphin Care is a recreational & educational program for individuals with special needs. Our center combines playing with atlantic bottlenose dolphins in the water with educational & therapuetic activities in classrooms! THE ENTIRE FAMILY IS INCLUDED WITH ALL OF OUR PROGRAMS. We work with individuals from the US and around the world!
Lee Sports Medicine & Rehab
Campus of Cape Coral Hospital/Lee Memorial Health System
1340 SE 6th Street
Cape Coral, FL 33990
USA
Contact person: Nancy Gizzi
Contact email: nancy.gizzi@leememorial.org
Contact phone: 239-772-6572
Website: www.leememorial.org
Who is served: AAC evals are largely from Lee County and surrounding (5-7)
Brief description: Provide AAC evaluations and treatment largely for the adult population in Lee County and the surrounding counties. Populations include those who suffer a head injury, stroke, or other neurological disease such as ALS or Primary Progressive Aphasia. The assessments are for those who have difficulty communicating orally and need an alternative or assisted means of communicating. This includes folks such as those who have had a laryngectomy.
Princeton House Charter School
1166 Lee Road
Orlando, FL 32810
USA
Contact person: Melissa Jones
Contact email: mjones@princeton-house.org
Contact phone: 407-523-7121
Website: www.princeton-house.org
Who is served: Members of schools in Central Florida.
Brief description:Our program has several focuses: Early intervention preschool focusing on acquisition skills in language, social skills and behavior modification; An intensive intervention program for moderate/severe children with autism; A middle school/high school program for children seeking Special Diplomas with focus on functional living and job skills. Our goal is for our children to develop skills that will allow them to return to a less restrictive environment and to be productive members of the community. For those students who need a long term program, we will continue to provide an educational and therapeutic environment until their 22nd birthday.
Metamorphosis Therapy, LLC
5619 Craindale Drive
Orlando, FL 32819
USA
Contact person: Bridgett Dimant
Contact email: bmdimant@gmail.com
Contact phone: 407-285-7907
Website: www.metamorphosis.com
Who is served: Anyone in Orange, Seminole, Osceola and Lake Counties.
Brief description: We are Speech Language Pathologists that specialize in the area of AAC Therapy, and We Come to You! We will come to your home and provide your child with a comprehensive evaluation on either the iPad or iPhone/iTouch to determine whether or not Proloquo2Go will fit your child’s communication needs. We will work with your child in the home, at school, and in the community to use Proloquo2Go to communicate effectively in various environments. We will also work with family members to train them on how to add photos/text and program Proloquo2Go to best fit their child’s needs. If you can not afford an iPad/iPhone/iTouch, we are in the process of establishing a charity and raising funds to provide children with autism with the technology they need to communicate.
Florida Hospital Oceanside
264 South Atlantic Avenue
Ormond Beach, FL 32176
USA
Contact person: Charlie Brown MA CCC/SLP
Contact email: Charles.Brown@fhms.org
Contact phone: 386-676-4222 ext 3342
Website: www.floridahospitalmemorial.org
Who is served: Anyone in Central Florida
Brief description: Florida Hospital Oceanside has a 40 bed inpatient rehab unit as well as an outpatient rehab center.
Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center
901 Sterthaus Ave.
Ormond Beach, FL 32174
USA
Contact person: Carolyn Hovey
Contact email: Carolyn.Hovey@fhmmc.org
Contact phone: 386-231-6091
Website: floridahospitalmemorial.org
Who is served: Anyone in our district
Brief description: This is an outpatient and inpatient acute care hospital setting.
Elite Speech Therapy, Inc.
6150 Diamond Centre Court Suite 203
Ft. Myers, FL 33912
USA
Contact person: Kimberly Beaugez
Contact email: info@elitespeech.com
Contact phone: 239-482-3154
Website: www.elitespeech.com
Who is served: Anyone in Southwest Florida
Brief description: Elite Speech Therapy, Inc. is a speech therapist owned and operated clinic in Ft. Myers, Florida. We provide speech and occupational therapy to pediatrics and adults. Our therapists specialize in a wide range of services supporting the needs of children and adults in areas such as speech-language disorders, social skill disorders, augmentative communication, fluency, autism, PDD, fine motor development, sensory dysfunction, and handwriting. Our therapists are available to assist and support you or your child alternative communication needs.
Elite Speech Therapy, Inc.
2124 NE Waldo Road
Suite 3200
Gainesville, 32609
USA
Contact person: Cathy Zenko
Contact email: czenko@UFL.EDU
Contact phone: (352) 273-0581
Website: www.card.ufl.edu
Who is served: Anyone in Alachua, Bradford, Citrus, Columbia, Dixie, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Hernando, Lafayette, Levy, Marion, Putnam, Suwannee, Union.
Brief description: The Center for Autism & Related Disabilities at the University of Florida is a community-based project that provides information and consultation to individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders and related disabilities. CARD-UF Gainesville Provides the following services, free of charge, in the 14 Florida counties we serve:
Training
Technical Assistance (to schools and school districts)
Consultation (to parents and care providers)
Resource Referral
A.LL Therapy Connection, Inc.
A.LL Therapy Connection
140 Tonina Cove, Suite 100
Maitland, FL 32751
USA
Contact person: Antonia Llull
Contact email: administration@alltherapyconnection.com
Contact phone: 407-388-0246
Contact fax: 407-332-8899
Website: www.maitlandacademy.com
Who is served: Anyone in the state of FL.
Brief description: A.LL Therapy Connection is a multidisciplinary, pediatric clinic, serving children 0-18 years of age. A.LL Therapy Connection has been serving the greater orlando community for 10 years. Services Provided: Occupational Therapy, Speech-Language Pathology, and Physical Therapy. Other Programs also include: Augmentative Communication Workshops and Training, Socialization Groups, Pre-Academic programs for 2-5 year olds, Teacher/Parent Training Workshops, and Intensive Therapeutic Summer Camps. We are sensory integration specialists.
All Children’s Specialty Care of Pasco
4443 Rowan Rd.
New Port Richey, FL 34653
USA
Contact person: Cara Babon/ Jessica Pahl
Contact email: cara.babon@all kids.org/ jessica.pahl@allkids.org
Contact phone: 727-846-9900
Contact fax: 727-846-9900
Website: www.allkids.org
Who is served: Anyone in the Tampa Bay Area
Brief description: All Children’s Specialty Care of Pasco is a 20,000 square foot outpatient facility that provides quality medical and therapeutic services in a convenient setting. All of the physicians, nurses and other professionals who work in the center are extensively trained to meet the special needs of children of all ages.
Shands Rehab Center for Kids
4740 NW 39th Place, Suite D
Gainesville, FL 32606
USA
Contact person: Lori-Ann Lamb
Contact email: lorilamb@phhp.ufl.edu
Contact phone: 352-265-5204
Contact fax: 352-265-5205
Website: shands.org/find/outpatient/rehab/magparkekids.asp
Who is served: Anyone in North Central Florida.
Brief description: Large multi disciplinary rehabiliation center offering speech-language pathology, occupational therapy,and phyiscl therapy evaluations and treatment.
Georgia
AAC Therapy Solutions, LLC & Walker Therapy
AAC Therapy Solutions, LLC
634 Peachtree Parkway, #275
Cumming, GA 30041
USA
Walker Therapy
7985 Knight Road
Gainesville, GA 30506
USA
Contact person: Lucy Nutt, Ed.S.; CCC-SLP
Contact email: lcnutt@yahoo.com
Contact phone: 404-406-9330
Who is served: Anyone in Georgia with a focus on the North Georgia area
Brief description: AAC evaluations and therapy are provided on M/W/TH in Cumming and on Tuesdays at the Walker Therapy location near Gainesville. A wide range of AAC devices are utilized and comprehensive speech/language therapy and AT services are provided. The new Proloquo2Go software via the iTouch or iPhone is the preferred small AAC device at these clinics. Come in and try this amazing new way of communicating!
Dynamic Therapy Associates, Inc.
3105 Creekside Village Dr.
Suite 603
Kennesaw, GA 30144
USA
Contact person: Vicki Clarke or Adina Bradshaw
Contact email: mydynamictherapy@bellsouth.net
Contact phone: 770-974-2424
Website: www.mydynamictherapy.com
Who is served: Anyone in the USA
Brief description: We are a high volume AAC evaluation and treatment clinic. We provide evaluations and follow up treatment, intervention planning and programming assistance. Currently we are averaging 50 evaluations annually with two AAC Specialist available to conduct evaluations. We have a team of 7 therapists, 3 of whom specialize in AAC.
Tools for Life - Georgia Assistive Technology Program
1700 Century Circle
Suite 300
Atlanta, GA 30345
USA
Contact person: Martha Rust
Contact email: martha@gatfl.org
Contact phone: 404-638-0390, 1-800-497-8665
Website: www.gatfl.org
Who is served: We serve the entire state of Georgia. We can then refer to our Assistive Technology Resource Centers who serve specific counties in Georgia.
Brief description: Tools for Life, Georgia’s Assistive Technology Program, serves Georgians of all ages and disabilities through Assistive Technology assessments demonstrations, equipment loan, training and funding counseling. Our Assistive Technology Resource Centers provide a hands-on approach for you to find the best AT to use in the environment of your choice whether it be at home, in school, at work or in the community.
Habersham County Special Education Department
P.O. Box 70
Clarkesville, GA 30523
USA
Contact person: MaryKay Berry
Contact email: mberry@habersham.k12.ga.us
Contact phone: 706-754-2110
Website: www.habershamschools.com/?DivisionID=3385&DepartmentID=3094&ToggleSideNav=ShowAll
Who is served: Anyone in the Habersham County
Brief description: We are a local school system of approximately 7000 students of which approximately 16% are eligible for special education services.
Hawaii
Aloha Special Technology Access Center, Inc.
710 Green St.
Honolulu, Hawaii 96813
USA
Contact person: Eric Arveson
Contact email: astachi@yahoo.com
Contact phone: 808-523-5547
Website: www.alohastac.org
Who is served: Anyone in Hawaii. We serve individuals with disabilities and their families and anyone working with persons with disabilities. Please call for appointments.
Brief description: We are an Alliance for Technology Access center, since 1989. We conduct workshops, host a loan library and provide assistive technology consultations. Our goal is to make technology accessible to individuals in our community.
M-DATA (Maui-District Assistive Technology Access)
Maui District Assistive Technology Access
Pu`unene School, Special Education
East Camp #5 Road
Pu`unene, HI 96768
USA
Contact person: Liz Ohta, EdS, ATP
Contact email: liz_ohta@notes.k12.hi.us
Contact phone: (808) 873-3529
Website: assist-tech.k12.hi.us
Who is served: Members of school district encompassing the islands of Maui, Moloka`i and Lana`i
Brief description: M-DATA (Maui-District Assistive Technology Access) provides assistive technology services and devices to students covered under IDEA in a school district encompassing the islands of Maui, Moloka`i and Lana`i. The purpose of M-DATA is to assist the IEP teams in the evaluation, selection, procurement and implementation of Assistive Technology for their students.
Idaho
ICAT
5420 Franklin Rd
Boise, ID 83705
Contact person: Dan Dyer
Contact email: info@idahocat.org
Contact phone: (208) 377-8070
Website: www.idahocat.org
Who is served: Aynone in Idaho.
Brief description: Assistive Technology loaning library of over 3,000 devices and other disability related services.
Illinois
Easter Seals DuPage & Fox Valley Region, Assistive Technology Department
Easter Seals DuPage & the Fox Valley Region
830 S. Addison Ave.
Villa Park, IL 60181
USA
Contact person: Beth Walkington
Contact email: assistivetech@eastersealsdfvr.org
Contact phone: 630-261-6210
Website: dfvr.easterseals.com/site/PageServer?pagename=ILDU_AssistiveTech
Who is served: Anyone in DuPage & Fox Valley Region of Illinois. We are primarily a pediatric outpatient rehabilitation facility with intake procedures for evaluations and therapy. Please contact our intake coordinators for more information.
Brief description: Easter Seals DuPage and the Fox Valley Region provides services for infants, children and young adults with disabilities to achieve maximum independence, and to provide support for the families who love and care for them. Through our dedication to helping individuals gain their independence, we have become one of the largest pediatric outpatient rehabilitation centers in Illinois. Within the Assistive Technology Department, expert speech and language pathologists and occupational therapists with specialized training assist individuals in achieving their personal best through assistive technology to communicate, write, play, or control their environment. Intervention and evaluation/consultation services are available using a variety of assistive technology systems.
Twp HS Dist 214
John Hersey High School
1900 E Thomas
Arlington Heights, IL 60004
USA
Contact person: Diana Clarke
Contact email: diana.clarke@d214.org
Contact phone: 847-718-4865
Website: www.d214.org
Who is served: High School District 214 attendance area
Brief description: Recognized as a Blue Ribbon High School District by the U.S. Department of Education, Township High School District 214 is located approximately 25 miles northwest of Chicago. We serve students from the surrounding communities of Arlington Heights, Buffalo Grove, Des Plaines, Elk Grove, Mt. Prospect, Prospect Heights, Rolling Meadows, and Wheeling.
High School District 214 currently has seven campuses.
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
1300 Founders Hall
Edwardsville Illinois, 62026
USA
Contact person: Leslie Tolliver
Contact email: lerober@siue.edu
Contact phone: 618-650-3669
Website: www.siue.edu
Who is served: Anyone in Illinois and Missouri. Note that no loaner units are available.
Brief description: Speech language and hearing services to the community through ASHA supervised graduate student clinicians in the program of Communication Disorders on the SIUE Campus
LADSE
1301 West Cossitt Ave
LaGrange, IL 60525
USA
Contact person: Sandy Chiampas
Contact email: schiampas@ladse.org
Contact phone: 708-354-5730
Website: www.ladse.org
Who is served: Members of school districts in the LaGrange Area Department of Special Education
Brief description: The LaGrange Area Department of Special Education is a Special Education Cooperative made up of 17 member school districts. It is located SouthWest of Chicago, IL.
Belleville Area Special Services Cooperative
2411 Pathways Crossing
Belleville, IL 62221
USA
Contact person: Krista Davidson or Paula Bartok
Contact email: Krista.Davidson@bassc-sped.org or Paula.Bartok@bassc-sped.org
Contact phone: 618-355-4755 or 618-355-4775
Website: web.stclair.k12.il.us/bassc/
Who is served: Members of St. Clair County, IL school districts
Brief description: Belleville Area Special Services Cooperative serves 23 school districts in St.Clair County, Illinois.
Illinois Assistive Technology Program
1 W. Old State Capitol Plaza
Suite 100
Springfield, IL 62701
USA
Contact person: Lynette Strode
Contact email: iatp@iltech.org
Contact phone: 217-522-7985
Website: www.iltech.org
Who is served: Anyone in the state of Illinois
Brief description: We are the state of Illinois Assistive Technology Program. We loan our speech communication devices for 6 weeks at a time. We are a first come, first serve agency. We serve all disabilities and all ages.
Autism and Family Resource Center
Autism and Family Resource Center
Trinity Services, Inc.
13318 W. Lincoln Hwy.
New Lenox, IL 60451
USA
Contact person: Mary Kate Burns
Contact email: mburns@trinity-services.org
Contact phone: 815-462-4273
Website: www.trinity-services.org/programs_services/Autism_Support.aspx
Who is served: Anyone
Brief description: The Autism and Family Resource Center provides home- and center-based services to children and adolescents with developmental disabilities in the greater Chicago area. Services available include (but are not limited to) challenging behavior reduction, toilet training, skill acquisition, diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders, and school consultation. The clinical staff, as a team, select the appropriate assessments, interventions, and training methods on a case-by-case basis to ensure the most effective services are rendered.
Universtiy of IL at Chicago, Assistive Technology Unit
Assistive Technology Unit, RM 415
University of Illinois at Chicago
1640 West Roosevelt Rd.
Chicago IL 60608
USA
Contact person: Karen Haasen
Contact email: khaasen@uic.edu
Contact phone: 312 413 1555
Website: uicatu.org/
Who is served: Anyone within 100 miles of UIC
Brief description: A unique feature of ATU services is the use of 7 Mobile Units to bring evaluation and implementation services to the consumer in the individual’s home, school, work, or recreation setting. The Mobile Unit approach enables the Assistive Technology devices to be tried out in the environment in which they will be used. This structure also enables participation of individuals that the consumer feels are important and minimizes scheduling difficulties for the consumer.The ATU serves approximately 500 children and adults, with virtually all types of disabilities each year. We accept all referral sources.
Indiana
PATINS-Project Northeast
PO Box 409
Columbia City, IN 46725
USA
Contact person: Daniel G. McNulty
Contact email: dmcnulty@r8esc.k12.in.us
Contact phone: 260-244-9025
Website: www.patinsproject.com/ne.html
Who is served: Anyone in the Northeast Indiana PATINS Region
Brief description: None was provided.
PATINS-Project Northwest
2150 West 97th Place
Crown Point, IN 46307
USA
Contact person: Jim Lambert
Contact email: jim.nwpatins@sbcglobal.net
Contact phone: (219) 662-6939
Website: www.patinsproject.com/nw.html
Who is served: Members from schools in the Northwest Indiana PATINS Region
Brief description: We provide a lending library and preview center for k-12 schools.
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago at St. Margaret Mercy Pediatric Rehabilitation
221 US HWY 41 Ste. G
Schererville, IN 46307
USA
Contact person: Lindi Gubbins
Contact email: lindi.gubbins@ssfhs.org
Contact phone: 219-322-2037
Website: www.smmhc.com/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=286
Who is served: Anynone in Northwest Indiana/Chicago land
Brief description: Through a multi-disciplinary team, Pediatric Rehabilitation Services seeks to provide the high risk infant and developmentally disabled pediatric population with a comprehensive assessment and treatment program to enhance the child’s performance to a more functional and age-appropriate level. The department provides Physical, Occupational, Speech and Developmental Therapy for children from birth to age 18. Services are provided in dedicated space located within Omni 41 Health and Fitness Connection. In addition, off-site services are available for children birth to age 3 through the State of Indiana First Steps program. Saint Margaret Mercy is the only hospital in Lake County to offer Developmental Therapy services. Therapy staff also includes three therapists certified in neurodevelopmental therapy (NDT). Evening and early morning appointments are available.
Applied Behavior Center
6060 W. Casstelway Dr.
Indianapolis, IN 46250
USA
Contact person: Laura Grant, M.A., BCBA
Contact email: abalaurag@yahoo.com
Contact phone: 317-849-5437
Website: www.appliedbehaviorcenter.org
Who is served: Anyone in Indiana
Brief description: The mission of the Applied Behavior Center for Autism is to provide high quality ABA and Verbal Behavior therapy and consulting services to children and their families affected by Autism Spectrum Disorders by using researched based ABA methodology delivered by highly qualified and certified professionals to increase language skills, social skills, academic skills, and reduce problematic behavior. We also strive to educate and train the public about ABA and Verbal Behavior and its uses within different environments. Our programs focus on identifying a child’s deficits areas and using their strengths and proven ABA principles to increase their language, social, behavioral, and academic skills, to ensure they have the necessary skills to be successful.
SW PATINS
PATINS
Castle South Middle School
3711 Casey Road
Newburgh, IN 47630
USA
Contact person: Sandy Stabenfeldt
Contact email: swpatins@ciesc.k12.in.us
Contact phone: 812-490-7927
Website: www.patinsproject.com
Who is served: Indiana Public School Personnel
Brief description: We provide a lending library and preview center for K-12 school personnel.
Iowa
Center for Disabilities and Development Resource Library
100 Hawkins Dr Rm #311
Iowa City IA 52242
USA
Contact person: Mary Hubbard
Contact email: disability-library@uiowa.edu
Contact phone: 319-356-1345
Website: www.medicine.uiowa.edu/cdd/multiple/drl/drl.asp
Who is served: Anyone in Iowa
Brief description: The Disability Resource Library houses a loaner collection of current augmentative communication devices, switches, computer peripherals and software. Anyone from the state of Iowa may borrow the equipment from the library for a three week period. As is DRL policy, we are happy to send materials to clients who cannot come to the library in person.
Kansas
Solution Outreach Center at OCCK, Inc.
Solution Outreach Center at OCCK, Inc.
2941 Centennial
Salina KS 67401
USA
Contact person: Shellie Eddings, ATP and Nancy Stork, ATP
Contact email: seddings@occk.com, nstork@occk.com
Contact phone: 800.526.9731, 785.827.7051 TTY, 785.452.9374 Fax
Website: www.occk.com/atsweb/index.htm
Who is served: Anyone in Kansas
Brief description: The Solution Outreach Center at OCCK, Inc. connects people with disabilities of all ages to the tools they need to live as free participants in society. Our programs are offered to AT users, families, educational and therapeutic professionals and others interested in learning more about AT. The Solution Outreach Center at OCCK, Inc. is one of five Access Sites in Kansas which is a part of the Assistive Technology for Kansans Project (ATK) and provides services throughout a 22 county area in North Central Kansas. We are also a charter member of Alliance for Technology Access (ATA), a nationwide network of AT resource centers, individuals, community based organizations and vendors. We operate the state-wide Interagency Equipment Loan System and provide regional AgrAbililty services.
Kentucky
Big East Educational Cooperative
904 Rose Road
Ashland, KY 41102
USA
Contact person: Jon Looney
Contact email: jon.looney@kedc.org
Contact phone: 606-929-2211
Website: www.bigeastcoop.org
Who is served: Members of schools in North-Eastern Kentucky
Brief description: The Big East Educational Cooperative is one of the eleven (11) Special Education Cooperatives located across the state of Kentucky. All 176 local school districts, and the Kentucky Schools for the Blind and Deaf are members of a special education cooperative. The Special Education Cooperative Network is intended to assist local school districts in meeting the needs of its member districts. Services range from technical assistance, trainings, professional development, specialized services, research, and other needs identified by member districts and the Kentucky Department of Education.
Caveland Educational Support Center (CESC)
230 Technology Way
Bowling Green, KY 42101
USA
Contact person: Paula Borland
Contact email: paula.borland@grrec.ky.gov
Contact phone: 270-563-2113
Website: www.caveland.org
Who is served: Students in South Central Kentucky.
Brief description: Caveland provides services to 17 school districts within the south central region of Kentucky. The Center works with teachers, students and administrators to enhance the educational processes within this region.
Upper Cumberland Special Eductation Cooperative
116 North 4th Street
Williamsburg, KY 40769
USA
Contact person: Ginger Brashear
Contact email: ginger.brashear@kedc.org
Contact phone: 606-549-7001
Website: www.ucsec.org
Who is served: Members of school districts in Southeastern Kentucky
Brief description: Upper Cumberland Special Education Cooperative provides a wide range of support and services to teachers, administrators, parents and students in school districts in Southeastern Ky.
Northern Kentucky Special Education Cooperative
5516 East Alexandria Pike
Cold Spring, KY 41076
USA
Contact person: Barbara Wietlisbach
Contact email: barbara.wietlisbach@nkces.org
Contact phone: 859-442-7031
Website: www.nkces.org/13981012311459257/site/default.asp?1398Nav=
Who is served: All school districts in the counties of Boone, Kenton, Campbell, Pendleton, and Williamstown Independent in Grant County.
Brief description: The Northern Kentucky Special Education Cooperative is one of eleven Special Education Cooperatives in the commonwealth of Kentucky and is a member of the Special Education Cooperative Network.
Jessamine County Assistive Technology
Jessamine Early Learning Village
516 Wilmore Road
Nicholasville, KY 40356
Contact person: Judy Owens
Contact email: judy.owens@jessamine.kyschools.us
Contact phone: 859-858-0868
Website: jessamine.kyschools.us
Who is served: Central Kentucky Special Education Cooperative
Brief description: Gerald and Judy are Assistive Technolgy Consultants for the Jessamine County School System. We are able to contract our services for evaluations and consults within Kentucky. We offer professional development in the areas of: Augmentative Communication, Visual Strategies, Universal Design for Learning, and are the developers of a concept called Buckets of Literacy and BackPacks Too!
Frazier Rehab & Neuroscience Center, Assistive Tech Resource Center
Frazier Rehab & Neuroscience Center, Assistive Technology Resource Center
220 Abraham Flexner Way
11th Floor
Louisville, KY 40202
Contact person: Christine Scally
Contact email: christine.scally@jhsmh.org
Contact phone: 502-582-7660
Website: www.jhsmh.org/HealthServices/RehabServicesFrazierRehab/Specialties/SpinalCordMedicineProgram/AssistiveTechnologyProgram.aspx
Who is served: Anyone in the Louisville area of Kentucky
Brief description: Frazier Rehab provides acute inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation care for adults and children. The Assistive Technology program is affiliated with the University of Louisville Schools of Medicine and Engineering and is staffed by experienced and credentialed OTs, PTs and SLPs with consultation from rehabilitation engineers.
Pulaski Schools
PO Box 1055
Somerset, KY 42502-1055
USA
Contact person: Joey Simmons
Contact email: joey.simmons@pulaski.kyschools.us
Contact phone: 606-676-2510
Website: www.pulaski.net
Who is served: Schools in South Eastern KY, USA
Brief description: Pulaski Schools Assistive Technology Resource Library and Support (Works Primarily with all Pulaski District Schools (13), but will assist other schools and parents in the region with Assistive Technology resources when possible).
Kosair Charities enTECH @ Spalding University
901 S. Fourth St.
Louisville, KY 40203
USA
Contact person: Alison Amshoff M.S. CCC/SLP; M.Ed; ATP
Contact email: aamshoff@spalding.edu
Contact phone: 502-585-9911
Website: www.spalding.edu/entech/
Who is served: Anyone in our state
Brief description: Kosair Charities enTECH @ Spalding University is one of four Assistive Technology Resource Centers in KY. enTECH provides Assistive Technology services for all ages. enTECH is located within the Auerbach School of Occupational Therapy in the College of Health and Natural Sciences at Spalding University. enTECH has many community partnerships for service provision. A Speech -Language Pathologist and Occupational Therapist are available for Assistive Technology assistance.
Pulaski Schools
PO Box 1055
Somerset, KY 42502-1055
USA
Contact person: Joey Simmons
Contact email: joey.simmons@pulaski.kyschools.us
Contact phone: 606-676-2510
Website: www.pulaski.net
Who is served: Schools in South Eastern KY, USA
Brief description: Pulaski Schools Assistive Technology Resource Library and Support (Works Primarily with all Pulaski District Schools (13), but will assist other schools and parents in the region with Assistive Technology resources when possible).
Bluegrass Technology Center
409 Southland Drive (behind Marikka’s)
Lexington, KY 40503
USA
Contact person: Debbie Sharon
Contact email: dsharon@bluegrass-tech.org
Contact phone: 800.209.7767
Website: www.bluegrass-tech.org
Who is served: Anyone in Kentucky with an emphasis on Central & Eastern KY.
Brief description: The Bluegrass Technology Center is a twenty year old consumer driven, non-profit organization assisting individuals with disAbilities, their families and service providers obtain technologies that provide the gateway to greater independence, productivity, and quality of life. The mission of BTC is to support and assist all persons in their efforts to access technology and to increase their awareness and understanding of how technology can enhance their ability to participate more fully in the community. We seek to help redefine human potential by making technology a regular part of the lives of people with disabilities. Bluegrass Technology Center is a member of the national Alliance for Technology Access and serves as the Eastern Regional Center for the Kentucky Assistive Technology Service (KATS) Network, our states "Tech Act" project. BTC has a history of providing quality services to thousands of individuals with disabilities, their families and professionals throughout Kentucky, and especially for those with communication challenges.
Louisiana
Region 7 Assistive Technology Center
2500 Viking Dr.
Bossier City, Louisiana 71111
USA
Contact person: Timothy Daniels
Contact email: timothy.daniels@bossierschools.org
Contact phone: 318-549-6163
Website: www.region7atc.com
Who is served: Members of schools in Northwest Louisiana
Brief description: We provide assistive services to northwest Louisiana as a part of the Louisiana Department of Education initiative, LATI (Louisiana Assistive Technology Initiative). We are a training center, loan library, and a consult resource.
Play Works for Kids
9857 High Point Dr.
Shreveport, LA 71106
USA
Contact person: Shawna W. Chumley, LOTR
Contact email: schumley@playworkskids.com
Contact phone: 318-344-3769
Website: www.playworkskids.com
Who is served: Anyone in Caddo, Bossier and DeSoto Parishes
Brief description: Play Works for Kids therapists serve children in their homes, daycares, and community centers. Offering occupational therapy services with emphasis on working closely with families and other professional disciplines (i.e., teachers, speech therapists,) to help a child reach their maximum functional potential.
Maine
ALLTech
ALLTech at Spurwink
400 Riverside Street, Suite A4
Portland, Maine 04103
USA
Contact person: Deb Dimmick
Contact email: info@alltech-tsi.org
Contact phone: 207-321-6080 x114
Website: www.alltech-tsi.org/assistive-technology/
Who is served: Anyone in Maine
Brief description: Funded by Maine CITE our loaner program houses approximately 200+ pieces of assistive technology available to individuals who have disabilities, their families, educators, and services providers for the purpose of trialing before purchasing or borrowing while their own device is being repaired.
Technical Exploration Center
34 Summer St. Suite 2A
Bangor, Maine 04401
USA
Contact person: Lynn Gitlow
Contact email: info@tecmaine.org
Contact phone: (207)-992-9270
Website: www.tecmaine.org
Who is served: Anyone in the State of Maine
Brief description: The Technical Exploration Center (TEC) is a place to discover, learn about, and practice using assistive technologies. We will give you the training you need to use these devices to improve your lifestyle."
TEC is a community outreach program of Husson University, which provides all Maine Citizens across the lifespan with access to, knowledge of, education and services regarding assistive technology to enhance independence, productivity and quality of life in the communities of their choice.
Maryland
Innovative Speech Therapy
7731 Tuckerman Lane #206
Potomac, MD 20854
USA
Contact person: Joan Green
Contact email: Joan@innovativespeech.com
Contact phone: 1-800-478-2550
Website: www.innovativespeech.com
Who is served: Anyone in the USA, but especially anyone in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, DC
Brief description: Innovative Speech Therapy is a private speech-language pathology practice in the Washington, DC area. Joan Green M.A. CCC-SLP, the founder, has many years of experience helping children and adults who have a wide range of communication, cognitive, literacy and learning challenges. She specializes in empowering families and professionals with the knowledge of the many cutting edge affordable resources including state-of-the-art technology tools to help people maximize progress. She works with adults who have had strokes and head injuries as well as children with developmental and learning disabilities. In addition to intensive therapy programs, Joan offers online coaching and training for families and education and rehabilitation professionals.
MDTAP
2301 Argonne Dr. Room T-17
Baltimore, MD 20218
USA
Contact person: Peggy Murphy or Denise Schuler
Contact email: mmurphy@mdtap.org or dschuler@mdtap.org
Contact phone: 410-554-9232
Website: www.mdtap.org
Who is served: Anyone in Maryland
Brief description: The Maryland Technology Assistance Program (MD TAP) provides tools to help Marylanders with disabilities and seniors enjoy the same rights and opportunities as other citizens. The Maryland Technology Assistance Program provides a streamlined service of product information, consultation, and resource assistance in order to make assistive technology more available, affordable and usable for Marylanders with disabilities and seniors.
AT:LAST, Inc.
7050 Oakland Mills Rd.
Suite 160
Columbia, MD 21046
USA
Contact person: Susan, Diana, or Laura
Contact email: communications@matcoop.org
Contact phone: 410-381-2667
Website: www.matcoop.org
Who is served: Anyone in Maryland, by appointment only
Brief description: AT:LAST, a 501(c)(3) non-profit serving the entire state of Maryland, operates an Assistive Technology Learning and Demonstration Center in central MD covering a wide range of assistive technology devices and software. Devices are available for loan for a nominal rental fee. We also operate an A.T. buying cooperative which has negotiated discounts with a great number of manufacturers and vendors to help bring down the high cost of assistive technology to schools, institutions, and families.
AT:LAST, Inc. Maryland Assistive Technology Cooperative
A.T. Learning Center
7050 Oakland Mills Road
Suite 160
Columbia, MD 21046
USA
Contact person: Lisa Brodjieski
Contact email: labrodjieski@gmail.com
Contact phone: 410-381-COOP
Website: www.matcoop.org/
Who is served: Anyone in the State of Maryland
Brief description: "AT:LAST, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1998. Services offered through our A.T. Learning Center in Columbia, MD include:
* Provision of high quality, low-cost training opportunities in a variety of formats both at our site and yours
* Demonstration and loan of a vast collection of AT devices and software exemplifying the continuum of products available
* Consultations and evaluations to meet individual needs or improve service provision
* Direct service sessions to students with learning disabilities
* Advocacy assistance to families
* Grant writing assistance to schools and organizations
This program provides discounted purchasing and training opportunities to schools, agencies, organizations, and families.
Massachusetts
Contact person: Jessica Gosnell, CCC-SLP
Contact email: Jessica.Gosnell@childrens.harvard.edu
Contact phone: 781-216-2221
Website: www.childrenshospital.org/acp
Who is served: Anyone in the USA as well as international patients
Brief description: The Center for Communication Enhancement at Children’s Hospital Boston provides comprehensive, expert evaluation, consultative, and therapeutic services to a wide range of patients who experience all types of communication disorders.
HEC CCATT
228 Pleasant Street
Northampton
MA 01060
USA
Contact person: Jeanne Tuthill
Contact email: ccatt@collaborative.org
Contact phone: 413 584-1664 x345
Website: www.collaborative.org
Who is served: K-12 students in Western Massachusetts as well as private pay adult clients (over the age of 22) in the community.
Brief description: We are an educational collaborative comprised of school districts within Hampshire and Franklin counties in Western Massachusetts. The CCATT center is our assistive technology center and we provide support to students with a variety of special needs through assistive technology and augmentative communication consultation and evaluation services.
Mustard Seed Assistive Technology Consulting
Gardner MA 01440
USA
Contact person: Jennifer Corso
Contact email: Jcorso@mustardseedat.com
Contact phone: 978 828 8657
Website: www.mustardseedat.com
Who is served: Anyone in Massachusetts.
Brief description: Providing AT evaluations.
Speech-Language Pathology Center
500 Liberty Street
Hanson, MA 02341
USA
Contact person: Tammy Taylor-Mastropietro
Contact email: tmastropietro@slpcenter.com
Contact phone: 781-293-7440
Website: www.slpcenter.com
Who is served: Anyone in Plymouth & Bristol County
Brief description: Specializing in the use of Apple products and applications for augmentative and alternative communication. Utilizing technology to open doors for all aspects of communication.
Easter Seals Assistive Technology Regional Center
Easter Seals ATRC
89 South Street
Boston, MA 02111
USA
Contact person: Kristi Peak-Oliveira, M.S., CCC-SLP
Contact email: kpeak-oliveira@eastersealsma.org
Contact phone: 617-226-2634
Website: ma.easterseals.com/site/PageServer?pagename=MADR_DLRC
Who is served: Anyone in Massachusetts.
Brief description: Easter Seals Assistive Technology Regional Center (ATRC) helps children and adults with disabilities in Massachusetts make informed decisions about assistive technology they can use to increase their independence at home, on the job or in school. People are welcome to come into the ATRC for hands-on learning about different types of assistive technology, and they can also participate in the Device Loan Program, taking equipment home with them to try for up to one month. These services are provided free to Massachusetts residents.
Michigan
AAC Support Group
1543 Charlevois Drive
Troy
MI 48085
USA
Contact person: Srini Renganathan
Contact email: rsvasan@hotmail.com
Contact phone: 248-649-0918
Website: none
Who is served: Schools in the Oakland region.
Brief description: We provide aac/at consultative services to school districts.
Western Michigan University, Charles VanRiper Language Speech & Hearing Clinic
Charles VanRiper Language Speech and Hearing Clinic
Western Michigan University
1000 Oakland Drive
Kalamazoo, MI 49008
USA
Contact person: Heather Koole
Contact email: Heather.k.Koole@wmich.edu
Contact phone: 269-387-8047
Website: www.wmich.edu/hhs/unifiedclinics/speechlangtherapy.htm
Who is served: Anyone in Southwest Michigan
Brief description: The Charles Van Riper Language, Speech, and Hearing Clinic was established in 1936speech as one of the nation’s first university speech clinics. It is operated by the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology at Western Michigan University as an integral part of the academic program. Speech and language services are provided by student clinicians under the direct supervision of faculty members who hold the Certificate of Clinical Competence from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Some services are provided directly by faculty.
Detroit Institute for Children/Abilities Center Campus
2075 E. West Maple, Ste. B-204
Walled Lake, MI 48390
USA
Contact person: Christine Murray
Contact email: christine.murray@detroitchildren.org
Contact phone: 248.926.0909
Website: www.detroitchildren.org/
Who is served: Anyone in Southeast Michigan
Brief description: Detroit Institute for Children is a pediatric therapy clinic with four locations in the southeast Michigan. Our mission is to care for children with physical or developmental disabilities, neurological special needs or behavioral special needs in a way that is positive, passionate, integrated and family-centered so that all children can maximize their potential. Our locations in southeast Michigan include Detroit, St. Clair Shores, Royal Oak and Walled Lake. We provide school contract services throughout the region as well.
[Communicating Solutions, LLC]
2314 Yorkshire Road
Suite 200
Ann Arbor
MI 48104
USA
Contact person: Lisa G. Bardach, MS CCC-SLP
Contact email: Lbardach@gmail.com
Contact phone: 734-973-9670
Who is served: Anyone in Southeastern Michigan
Brief description: Communicating Solutions is a private practice specializing in provision of services for individuals in need of Augmentative/Alternative Communication. Services are provided in home, school, residential facility, or wherever they are needed. Services are provided by trained SLPs with extensive experience in AAC.
Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital
360 Lafayette
Suite 330
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
USA
Contact person: Cara Masselink
Contact email: cara.masselink@maryfreebed.com
Contact phone: 800.211.4813
Website: www.maryfreebed.com
Who is served: Anyone in Midwest U.S.
Brief description: We complete Augmentative Communication evaluations for Speech Generating Devices on an outpatient and inpatient basis. We see all ages and diagnosis, and work with insurance for funding evaluations and equipment as able.
Minnesota
PACER Center’s Simon Technology Center
8161 Normandale Blvd.
Minneapolis, MN 55437
USA
Contact person: Bridget Gilormini
Contact email: stc@pacer.org
Contact phone: 952-838-9000
Website: www.pacer.org/stc
Who is served: Anyone in the state of Minnesota
Brief description: The Simon Technology Center (STC) is dedicated to making the benefits of technology more accessible to children and adults with disabilities. Through a collaborated effort involving parents, professionals, and consumers, the STC can provide numerous services for your family, as well as resources and informative answers to your questions. The PACER Simon Technology Center (STC) offers free, informal assistive technology consultations for children and adults with disabilities. A consultation at PACER is a way to explore educational software and assistive technology in a stress-free, collaborative environment. This is not a formal assessment or evaluation but rather a starting point to locate technology that may help people with disabilities become more independent at home, school, or work. The Simon Technology Center Library offers Minnesota families and professionals the opportunity to preview educational and disability-specific software and assistive technology devices for children and young adults.
The Therapy Place
900 West 94th Street
Bloomington, MN 55420
USA
Contact person: Brea Maday, MA CCC-SLP
Contact email: brea@thetherapyplace.net
Contact phone: (952) 885-0418
Website: www.thetherapyplace.net
Who is served: Ayone in the Upper midwest region.
Brief description: At The Therapy Place, children with special needs get the help they need to reach their fullest potential for growth, learning, and participation in the greater world. The clinic is a specially designed, child-friendly environment well-suited for children ranging from infants to young teens who face the challenges of autism, Asperger’s syndrome, physical or developmental disabilities, attention deficit disorder, sensory integrative dysfunction, Down syndrome, brain injury, or other health or developmental difficulties. Clinic services include: occupational, physical, and speech therapy; augmentative/aternative communication evaluations and treatment; peer play groups; feeding evaluation and treatment; handwriting programs; and a number of other methods and programs designed to help children develop needed life skills.
South Central Service Cooperative
2075 Lookout Drive
North Mankato, MN 56003
USA
Contact person: Bambi Dubke
Contact email: dubb@waseca.k12.mn.us
Contact phone: 507-838-7722
Website: www.mnscsc.org
Who is served: Members of schools in Region 9.
Brief description: The South Central Service Cooperative Low Incidence Project has an assistive technology lending library for member school districts in Region 9. The items in the library are accessed by contacting the assistive technology consultant in your school district.
AAC Regional Outreach Program at the University of Minnesota Duluth
University of Minnesota Duluth
Dept of Communication Sciences & Disorders
31 W College St, 174 Chester Park
Duluth, MN 55812
USA
Contact person: Jolene Hyppa Martin
Contact email: jhyppama@d.umn.edu
Contact phone: 218-726-8199
Website: www.d.umn.edu/csd/aac.html
Who is served: Anyone in the Duluth, MN area.
Brief description: The major mission of the program is to conduct evaluations of individuals with communication disorders who benefit from AAC-based intervention.
Kids Abilities
490 West Highway 96
Suite 300
Shoreview, MN 55126
USA
Contact person: Evan Sargent
Contact email: kidsabilities@kidsabilities.com
Contact phone: 651-451-7040
Website: www.kidsabilities.com
Who is served: Anyone in the Minneapolis/St Paul cities area
Brief description: Pediatric Therapy clinic offering Speech Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy and Orthotics.
Willow Lane Early Childhood Center
Willow Lane Early Childhood Center
7020 Perry Avenue N
Brooklyn Center, MN 55429
USA
Contact person: John Norlander
Contact email: norlanderj@district279.org
Contact phone: 763-585-7300
Website: www.kidsabilities.com
Who is served: Anyone in Minneapolis / St Paul Area Schools
Brief description: Early Childhood Center serving as the base for Early Childhood Special Education services for a large suburban metro school district.
U of MN-Davis Speech-Language-Hearing Center
Department of Speech Language Hearing Sciences
College of Liberal Arts
115 Shevlin Hall
164 Pillsbury Drive SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Contact person: Rebecca Lulai
Contact email: lude0008@umn.edu
Contact phone: 612-624-3322
Website: www.slhs.umn.edu/clinical/
Who is served: Anyone in Minneapolis / St Paul Area. Focusing in use of AAC after stroke or brain injury.
Brief description: Our clinic offers a broad range of services for individuals with impairments of speech, language, and hearing. The services offered in our clinic provide clinical education opportunities for graduate students. All services are provided by graduate students under the supervision of a nationally certified and licensed speech-language pathologist or audiologist. Our mission is founded on our need to:
* Provide clinical education opportunities for our graduate students
* Provide service to the community and the University of Minnesota
* Advocate for individuals with speech, language, hearing, or cognitive communication disorders
The clinic is named in honor of Dr. Julia M. Davis, Professor Emerita in the Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences and the former Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota.
Mississippi
TAD Center
North MS Regional Center
967 Regional Center Dr.
Oxford, MS 38655
USA
Contact person: Julie Chadwick, CCC-SLP, ATP
Contact email: jchadwick@nmrc.state.ms.us
Contact phone: 662.513.7892
Website: www.nmrc.state.ms.us
Who is served: Aynone in North Mississippi primarily, but see individuals from all over Mississippi and the Memphis, TN area
Brief description: TAD (Technology Assistive Device) Center is a community program of the North MS Regional Center that operates to help children and adults (no restrictions) find appropriate technology to meet their needs for mobility, communication, computer access, and computer-aided instruction. The TAD Center provides free evaluations in assistive technology and offers training for teachers, parents, clients, and therapists. Loans of AAC devices are also made possible by a grant through Project START (MS Tech Act Project.)
Missouri
iSLP, LLC
4230 S. Phelps Road
Suite M
Independence, MO 64055
USA
Contact person: Lisa Grant, M.S., CCC-SLP
Contact email: lisa@iSLPlearning.com
Contact phone: 816-213-6173
Website: www.iSLPlearning.com
Who is served: Anyone in Missouri, Kansas, Midwest Region of the USA
Brief description: Educating others about assistive technology uses for mobile iDevices is what iSLP is all about! This center offers professional assistance for: a) exploring the appropriateness of Proloquo2Go for your child, b) education and training in customization and programming of Proloquo2Go, and c) training in strategies to improve outcomes for individuals learning to use augmentative communication devices. Services are provided on a fee-for-service basis by a professional speech-language pathologist.
Fontbonne University Speech Language Clinic
Fontbonne University
6800 Wydown Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63105
USA
Contact person: Barb Meyer
Contact email: bmeyer@fontbonne.edu
Contact phone: 314-889-1407
Website: www.fontbonne.edu/academics/undergraduate/departments/communicationdisordersdeafeducation/eardleyfamilyclinic/
Who is served: Anyone in Greater St. Louis
Brief description: Fontbonne University Earldey Family Clinic for Speech Language and Hearing Provider of evaluations and therapy for communication disorders, including AAC evaluations.
Cerebral Palsy Center, St. Louis Children’s Hospital
Pediatric Neurology Cerebral Palsy Center
660 South Euclid Avenue
Campus Box 8111
St. Louis, MO 63110-1093
USA
Contact person: Nicole Weckherlin
Contact email: ntw2414@bjc.org
Contact phone: 314.454.6120
Website: www.stlouischildrens.org/content/medservices/CerebralPalsyCenter.html
Who is served: Anyone in the St. Louis area but also patients/families from all over the country.
Brief description: The CP Center diagnoses and treats infants, children and adolescents with cerebral palsy. The CP center’s approach is comprehensive, pro-active, and individualized. The physicians at St. Louis Children’s Hospital know that treatment of children with CP should focus on the whole child. Each week the staff holds a CP conference to share ideas and to develop specific strategies for each child’s care. The Center works closely with other experts, including pediatricians, rehabilitation specialists, neurologists, orthopedic surgeons and neurosurgeons, teachers and occupational, physical and speech therapists, among others.
Nebraska
Institute for Rehabilitation Science and Engineering at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital
Contact person: Dr. Susan Fager
Contact email: sfager@madonna.org
Contact phone: (402)-483-9459
Website: www.madonna.org/specialized_programs/technology/
Who is served: Anyone in the USA that can travel to our facility
Brief description: Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital’s assistive technology service is provided by occupational, physical and speech therapists who have completed specialized training and education in the area of assistive technology and augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). The assistive technology specialists help people who have limited mobility from stroke, brain injury, spinal cord injury or neurological deficits as seen in multiple sclerosis or amylotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), to gain greater independence in their home, work, school and community environments. Assistive technology specialists at Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital provide evaluations and prescriptions to identify solutions using various equipment and technology that maximize the individual’s ability to perform daily tasks with the highest level of independence and to improve overall quality of life.
Munroe-Meyer Institute at the University of Nebraska Medical Center
Munroe-Meyer Institute for Genetics and Rehabilitation
985450 Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE 68198-5450
USA
Contact person: Jennifer Brock, MS CCC-SLP and Korey L Stading
Contact email: jbrock@unmc.edu, kstading@unmc.edu
Contact phone: 1-402-559-5751
Website: www.unmc.edu/dept/mmi/
Who is served: Anyone in the Nebraska area.
Brief description: MMI provides AAC evaluations and training to children with genetic disorders and developmental diabilities and adults with limited mobility and neurological deficits.
Barkley Memorial Center-University of Nebraska
Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
College of Education and Human Sciences
253 Barkley Memorial Center
P.O. Box 830731
Lincoln, NE 68583-0731
USA
Contact person: Kristy Weissling
Contact email: kweissling2@unl.edu
Contact phone: 402-472-2071
Website: www.unl.edu/barkley/spath/clinic.shtml
Who is served: Anyone in Eastern Nebraska
Brief description: We are a state university training program. We train students to complete AAC evaluations and complete AAC evaluations on individuals across the state but particularly in the Eastern part of the state.
Quality Living, Inc.
6404 N. 70th Plaza
Omaha, NE 68104
USA
Contact person: Janelle Ward
Contact email: jward@qliomaha.com
Contact phone: (402) 573-3700
Website: www.qliomaha.com
Who is served: Anyone in Eastern Nebraska and Western Iowa
Brief description: Quality Living, Inc. (QLI) is a non-profit, post-hospital rehabilitation facility dedicated to rebuilding the lives of individuals with brain and/or spinal cord injury. We practice a multidisciplinary approach to achieve rehabilitation on a real-world and functional level. Utilizing assistive devices such as smart phones, iPad, iPhone, etc., our goal is to teach and/or aide individuals to achieve the highest levels of independence possible. QLI’s Life Skills and Speech departments help individuals practice learned skills while learning new skills in functional environments.
Educational Service Unit #9
ESU #9
1117 East South Street
Hastings, NE 68901
USA
Contact person: Nancy Poppe
Contact email: npoppe@esu9.org
Contact phone: 402-463-5611
Website: home.site.esu9.org/
Who is served: Anyone in the ESU 9 area
Brief description: Educational Service Unit #9 is an agency that provides special education services to school districts. We provide educational opportunities for approximately 9,0000 students through the local 14 school districts, 5 parochial schools in rural south central Nebraska.
Nevada
University of Nevada, Reno - Speech Pathology & Audiology
Nell J Redfield Building, Mailstop 0152
Reno, NV 89557
USA
Contact person: Tami Brancamp, PhD
Contact email: tbrancamp@medicine.nevada.edu
Contact phone: 775-784-4887
Website: www.medicine.nevada.edu/spa
Who is served: Anyone in Nevada
Brief description: We are the Department of Speech Pathology & Audiology at the University of Nevada, Reno. Our clinic provides augmentative and/or alternative communication (AAC) assessments for individuals across the lifespan.
Nevada Assistive Technology Resource Center
NATRC MS 285
University of Nevada Reno
Reno NV 89557
USA
Contact person: George McKinlay
Contact email: natrc@unr.edu
Contact phone: 775.682.9070
Website: nced.info/
Who is served: Anyone in Nevada
Brief description: The Nevada Assistive Technology Resource Center (NATRC) supports collaborative efforts with the community to bring about wider knowledge and adoption of Assistive Technology in Nevada. The development of a responsive best-practices based network for the delivery of AT services to unserved and under-served populations in Nevada is a high priority. The NATRC is an active member of the Nevada Assistive Technology Council, and is responsible for establishing a new accessible social networking website dedicated to increase knowledge, use and access to Assistive Technology in the state of Nevada. The development of an effective and affordable statewide support and training strategy for AT users is a high priority. The NATRC is actively involved with researchers, developers and manufacturers of AT devices to help create innovative AT solutions.
New Hampshire
ATECH Services
57 Regional Drive
Suite #7
Concord, NH 03301
USA
Contact person: Julie Irwin
Contact email: juliei@atechservices.org
Contact phone: 800-932-5837 or 603-226-2900
Website: www.nhassistivetechnology.org
Who is served: Anyone in the state of New Hampshire
Brief description: ATECH Services is a non-profit statewide organization, whose mission is to maximize abilities at home, school, work or play, for individuals affected by disabilities or the aging process, through the provision of assistive technology, education, or community health services. Since 1991 ATECH Services has assisted over 20,000 New Hampshire residents affected by disabilities or the aging process in achieving their goals at home, school, work, or play through the provision of assistive technology.
Easter Seals NH- Jolicoeur School
200 Zachary Rd
Manchester NH 03109
USA
Contact person: Michael OHara
Contact email: MOhara@eastersealsnh.org
Contact phone: 603-206-6606
Website: nh.easterseals.com/site/PageServer?pagename=NHDR_Jolicoeur
Who is served: Students (8 - 12 years old) of schools in New England
Brief description: A school specializing in neurobehavioral disabilities (Autism). Residential services are also available. A variety of communication interventions are available and used (PECS, AAC devices- dynavox, PRC, and simpler 3-12 button devices).
Gateways Autism Center
Gateways Community Services
144 Canal Street
Nashua, NH 03064
USA
Contact person: Veronica Smith
Contact email: autism@gatewayscs.org
Contact phone: 459-1798
Website: www.gatewayscs.org/
Who is served: Anyone in New Hampshire - Region 6
Brief description: The Autism Center directly supports children and adults with autism, and their families, through access to a dedicated, community-based specialist, a lending library of printed and electronic multi-media, case management services, and the web-based Nashua Autism Network (NAN).
Concord School District
40 Sewalls Falls Rd. Concord
NH
USA
Contact person: Jennine Mann
Contact email: jmann@csd.k12.nh.us
Contact phone: 603-479-9140
Website: www.concordnhschools.net
Who is served: Anyone in Concord, NH.
Brief description: Children living in the city of Concord, NH can be evaluated for use of Proloquo2Go by Jennine Mann.
New Jersey
TECHConnection @ FRA
35 Haddon Ave
Shrewsbury, NJ 07702
USA
Contact person: Joan Bruno, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
Contact email: JBruno@techconnection.org
Contact phone: 732-747-5310
Website: www.techconnection.org
Who is served: Anyone in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York
Brief description: Provide comprehensive AAC evaluations to nonspeaking or severely speech impaired children and adults. Follow-up consultations, AAC intervention services and workshops are available on a fee-for-service basis.
Cerebral Palsy Association of Middlesex County
10 Oak Drive-Roosevelt Park
Edison, NJ 08837
USA
Contact person: Travis M. Tallman CCC-SLP;ATP
Contact email: travis.tallman@cpamc.org
Contact phone: 732-549-5580 x170
Website: www.cpamc.org
Who is served: Anyone in New Jersey, primarily central and northern New Jersey
Brief description: We provide AAC and AT evaluations to both children and adults with varying communication and/or physical issues. We have been providing evaluations for the past 25 years. Evaluations are done within the clients natural environment and with their supporting teams and/or services. A loan service is available for a variety but not all systems. Evaluations, training and programming services are offered.
Advancing Opportunities
1005 Whitehead Road Ext
Suite 1
Ewing, NJ 08638
USA
Contact person: Fred Tchang, Director
Contact email: ftchang@advopps.org
Contact phone: 609-882-4182 or 888-322-1918
Website: www.assistivetechnologycenter.org
Who is served: Anyone in New Jersey
Brief description: New Jersey’s online resource for information and equipment. We help people with disabilities, their families, teachers and employers identify and learn to use the technology that will be most effective in meeting their goals.
We offer: RESNA certified staff, thorough assessments, trials of equipment before purchase, training and support and we come to you!
New York
Accessible Learning Technology Alternatives
PO Box 597
Shirley, NY 11967
Contact person: Lorianne Hoenninger
Contact email: accessiblelearning@verizon.net
Contact phone: 631-399-5750
Who is served: Anyone in the USA but mainly students between 5 and 21 years of age in Nassau and Suffolk County, NY
Brief description: We provide augmentative and assistive technology evaluations for school districts in Nassau and Suffolk Counties, Long Island, NY. We are known for being one of the most innovative and cutting edge evaluators.
The SMILE Center
171 Madison Ave, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10016
USA
Contact person: Huck Ho
Contact email: huckho@smileny.org
Contact phone: 212-400-0383
Website: www.smileny.org
Who is served: Anyone in New York City.
Brief description: The SMILE Center strives to provide the highest quality of pediatric occupational, physical and speech therapy services with a strong emphasis on neuro-developmental treatment (NDT), sensory integration (SI), and DIR/Floortime. With solid foundations in these treatment models, our therapists treat the whole child by addressing the systemic sensory and postural needs, as well as supporting social-emotional, communicative and affective development.
Jefferson-Lewis BOCES
20104 New York State Route 3
Watertown, New York 13601
USA
Contact person: Michael Lively
Contact email: mlively@mail.boces.com
Contact phone: 315-779-7100
Website: www.boces.com
Who is served: Members of the Jefferson-Lewis BOCES Component School Districts (18 school districts). Requests are initiated by Committees on Special Education / Child Study Teams.
Brief description: Jefferson-Lewis BOCES, Programs for Exceptional Students Department provides a range of classroom and support services to students in our region. Assistive Technology evaluations and consultations are available as requested by our component school districts.
Westchester Institute for Human Development
20 Hospital Plaza, 422 Cedarwood Hall
Valhalla, NY 10595
USA
Contact person: Assistive Technology Program
Contact email: atp@wihd.org
Contact phone: 914-493-1317
Website: www.wihd.org
Who is served: Anyone in Westchester county, Putnam county, Rockland county; additional regions if requested by NYS Tech Act Site
Brief description: Westchester Institute for Human Development (WIHD) is a University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities. We serve individuals with development disabilities across the lifespan. Evaluations, on-going treatment sessions as well as trainings and staff development are a few of the services we offer at WIHD.
The Cognitech Cafe AT Center
The Jewish Community Center In Manhattan
334 Amsterdam Avenue at West 76th Street
New York, NY 10023
Multimedia Center (computing center), lower level two
USA
Contact person: Mark Surabian, ATP
Contact email: ATHelp@me.com
Contact phone: 917-586-8000
Website: www.cognitechcafe.com
Who is served: Children 0-21 years in New York
Brief description: We are available to help any school age children and their families (early intervention to college bound) discover how technology may help them address communication, learning, vision and physical access needs. All interested parents must make an appointment by e-mail or phone After our one hour consultations with parents/children, we help them navigate school, public, and private resources for more formal assistive technology and augmentative communication evaluations when needed. Associated professionals are welcome to accompany the family and child as well. Parents are also invited to return with questions or for actual support with assistive technology products they acquire.
WSWHE BOCES
WSWHE BOCES - Assistive Technology Department
27 Gick Rd
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
USA
Contact person: Laurie Bouchard
Contact email: lbouchard@wswheboces.org
Contact phone: 518 581-3760
Website: www.wswheboces.org
Who is served: School districts who are members of the WSWHE BOCES Component Schools. Requests are initiated by Committee on Special Education for each school district.
Brief description: WSWHE BOCES provides Assistive Technology services and AT Evaluations to our 31 districts in 5 counties in upstate NY.
Helen Hayes Hospital, Center for Rehabilitation Technology
Helen Hayes Hospital
51-55 Route 9W
West Haverstraw, NY 10993
USA
Contact person: Tammy Goedken, DPT
Contact email: goedkent@helenhayeshosp.org
Contact phone: 845-786-4587
Website: www.helenhayeshospital.org/special_services/crt.htm
Who is served: School districts who are members of the WSWHE BOCES Component Schools. Requests are initiated by Committee on Special Education for each school district.
Brief description:
North Carolina
North Carolina Assistive Technology Program Executive Center Drive
5501 Executive Center Drive
Suite 105
Charlotte, NC 28212
USA
Contact person: Celeste Helling, M.A., CCC-SLP, ATP
Contact email: chelling@ncatp.org
Contact phone: (704) 566-2899
Website: www.ncatp.org
Who is served: Aynone in North Carolina
Brief description: The North Carolina Assistive Technology Program (NCATP) is a state and federally funded program that provides assistive technology services statewide to people of all ages and abilities. The Executive Center Drive office provides the following services: Assistive Technology Evaluation; Augmentative Communication Evaluation; Device Demonstration – Get hands on experience with equipment; Device Loan – Borrow a device short term to try it out; Training and Technical Assistance – Receive assistive technology expertise; Public Awareness – Get a general overview of AT and NCATP services; Coordination & Collaboration – NCATP networks with agencies and organizations regionally and statewide so that AT issues are included in planning and policy development. AT Funding information on potential AT funding resources people can contact.
North Carolina Assistive Technology Program Greensboro
3407 West Wendover Avenue, Suite H
Greensboro, NC 27407
USA
Contact person: Page Mikol
Contact email: pmikol@ncatp.org
Contact phone: (336) 297-2180
Website: www.ncatp.org
Who is served: Anyone in North Carolina
Brief description: We are a state and federally funded program to increase statewide access to assistive technology to people of all ages and abilities. We provide hands-on demonstration for devices and equipment for all categories of assistive technology, short-term loan for devices, information and referral, evaluation, consultation and training.
ECU Voice for ALL
Speech Language Hearing Clinic,
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Allied Health Sciences
Greenville, NC 27858
USA
Contact person: Laura Ball
Contact email: balll@ecu.edu
Contact phone: 252.744.6104
Website: www.ecu.edu/csd
Who is served: Anyone in the USA
Brief description: ECU Voice for ALL provides augmentative and alternative communication assessments and interventions to persons with communication needs that cannot be met using natural speech. The center has a focus on assessments and interventions involving technology.
Watson School of Education Assistive Technology Demonstration and Lending Site
Airlie Commons
Watson School of Education Suite - Room 202
1612 Military Cutoff Road
Wilmington, NC 28403
USA
Contact person: Kari Siko
Contact email: assistivetech@uncw.edu
Contact phone: 910-962-2579
Website: www.uncw.edu/ed/assist/
Who is served: Members of school districts in Southeastern North Carolina
Brief description: The Watson School of Education, through funding by the United States Department of Education, has created an Assistive Technology Demonstration and Lending Site. This is a model facility that focuses on persons with disabilities and those who provide education, therapy, intervention and care for them and which holds new and innovative materials and equipment. The Assistive Technology Demonstration and Lending Site provides an avenue for educating persons on the availability and use of assistive technologies that can provide the freedom and independence desperately sought by many persons who are faced with temporary or lifelong challenges due to their disabilities.
North Carolina Assistive Technology Program Raleigh Center
1110 Navaho Dr.
Suite 101
Raleigh, NC 27609
USA
Contact person: April Furr M.S., CCC-SLP
Contact email: april.furr@dhhs.nc.gov
Contact phone: 919-850-2787
Website: www.ncatp.org
Who is served: We loan to a 17 county area in the central area of North Carolina.
Brief description: We are located at 1110 Navaho Dr. in Raleigh, NC. We work with all ages and disabilities using a variety of assistive technologies. We have an SLP and special educator on staff providing face to face consultation and technical assistance. Demonstration of equipment like Proloquo2Go is a free service offered at our center.
North Dakota
Anne Carlsen Center
701 3rd St NW
Jamestown, ND 58401
USA
Contact person: Mark Coppin
Contact email: mark.coppin@annecenter.org
Contact phone: 800-568-5175
Website: www.annecenter.org
Who is served: Anyone in North Dakota
Brief description: A private non-profit center that provides training, services and supports in homes and communities across North Dakota. On our Jamestown campus, we meet the educational, residential, and therapeutic needs of children and young adults with autism, behavior disorders, medical fragility, and other developmental disabilities.
IPAT Technology Access Center
3509 Interstate Blvd.
Fargo, ND 58103
IPAT Technology Access Center
400 East Broadway, Suite 306
Bismarck, ND 58501
Contact person: Jeannie Krull (Fargo) & Scott Weissman (Bismarck)
Contact email: jmkrull@ndipat.org (Fargo) & sweissman@ndipat.org (Bismarck)
Contact phone: 800-895-4728 (Fargo) & 888-540-4728 (Bismarck)
Website: www.ndipat.org
Who is served: We serve people of all ages across the entire state of ND. Anyone is welcome to have a demo of the product; however, we can only rent to people from North Dakota.
Brief description: The Interagency Program for Assistive Technology (IPAT) delivers services so people with disabilities of all ages can get the assistive technology they need for work, school, and home. IPAT has demo centers in Bismarck and Fargo where anyone can receive a demonstration of assistive technology equipment at no cost. This can be done at the Centers or virtually via video conferencing. We also have an Equipment Loan Library where people can rent devices for a nominal fee for up to six weeks. Although the demo centers are open to anyone, the equipment can only be loaned to North Dakotans. To set up a demo or rental, just give us a call-no referral necessary!
Ohio
Dayton Children’s
Rehabilitative Services
Dayton Children’s
1 Children’s Plaza
Dayton, OH 45410
USA
Contact person: Sara Martin
Contact email: martins@childrensdayton.org
Contact phone: 937-641-3070 (option 2)
Website: www.childrensdayton.org
Who is served: Anyone in Ohio under the age of 21; must come to Dayton Children’s
Brief description: Rehabilitative Services through Dayton Children’s provides occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech therapy including several specialty areas such as feeding, aural rehabilitation, and Augmentative and Alternative Communication Evaluations and treatment for children up to age 21 in the Dayton area.
Aaron W. Perlman Center at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
3333 Burnet Avenue, MLC 4013
Cincinnati, OH 45229
USA
Contact person: Sherry Lanyi, M.A.CCC-SLP
Contact email: sherry.lanyi@cchmc.org
Contact phone: 513-636-4601
Website: www.cincinnatichildrens.org/perlman
Who is served: Anyone in the Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana tri-state area but we will see anyone who wants to travel to our center
Brief description: The Perlman Center is a leading regional provider for assistive technology evaluation, training and technical assistance for children and adults. The expertise of the multidisciplinary team of therapists, as well as its one-of-a-kind Assistive Technology Lab, make the Perlman Center a key resource for individuals with all types of physical and developmental disabilities/conditions.
Janet R.M. Hansen, Ph.D. LLC
5174 Blazer Parkway
Dublin, OH 43017
USA
Contact person: Janet Hansen, Ph.D.
Contact email: janethansenpsych@me.com
Contact phone: 614-792-9104
Website: www.janethansenpsychologist.com
Who is served: Children and adolescents in central Ohio.
Brief description: Dr. Hansen is a clinical psychologist who specializes in children and developmental disorders, specifically Autism Spectrum Disorders. Services include psychological evaluations, parent and school consultation, social skills groups, individual therapy, and home based intensive behavioral intervention based on ABA principles. Goals of ABA programs include increasing skills across language/communication, social skills, adaptive, cognitive and play while decreases problem behavior. Many of our clients are nonverbal and use AAC devices. We work closely with speech and language pathologists to teach language goals and generalize to different environments at home, school and in the community.
Baldwin-Wallace Speech Clinic
275 Eastland Road
Berea, Ohio 44146
USA
Contact person: Christie Needham
Contact email: cneedham@bw.edu
Contact phone: 440-826-2149
Website: www.bw.edu/academics/comdis/clinic/
Who is served: Anyone in the Cleveland Ohio area.
Brief description: We are a teaching facility that provides intervention and diagnostic services for indviduals of any ability and age. We offer intensive group AAC services, individual therapy and AAC evaluations.
Tiffin City Schools
4739 County Highway 16
Sycamore, Ohio 44882
USA
Contact person: Beth Margraf, SLP
Contact email: bemargraf@udata.com
Contact phone: 419-927-6004
Website: www.tiffin.k12.oh.us
Who is served: Memebers of school districts in Northwest Ohio
Brief description: Speech/Language Pathologist in a school district serving students with autism and multiple disabilities.
Children’s Medical Center of Dayton-Outpatient Care Center Springboro
Outpatient Care Center
3333 West Tech Blvd.
Miamisburg, OH 45342
USA
Contact person: Melissa Weigle
Contact email: weiglem@childrensdayton.org
Contact phone: 937-641-5725
Website: www.childrensdayton.org
Who is served: Children in the Dayton, Ohio area and surrounding suburbs. Must be willing to travel to area and have referral from physician for "AAC evaluation"
Brief description: Dayton Children’s provides speech/language therapy to children between the ages of 0 and 13.
Lucas Co. Educational Service Center
2275 Collingwood Blvd.
Toledo, OH 43620
USA
Contact person: Barbara Krupnik-Goldman, SLP
Contact email: lcesc_bg@nwoca.org
Contact phone: 419-724-0453
Website: www.lucas.k12.oh.us
Who is served: Anyone in Lucas County, Ohio
Brief description: Located in the heart of Toledo and established in 1913, the Lucas County Educational Service Center is one of the largest county offices in the State of Ohio, whose highly qualified professionals serve students in eight school districts including: Anthony Wayne, Maumee, Ottawa Hills, Perrysburg, Rossford, Springfield, Sylvania City and Washington Local Schools.
Napoleon Area Schools
Napoleon Area Schools
701 Briarheath Drive
Napoleon, OH 43545
USA
Contact person: Stephen Fogo
Contact email: steve.fogo@napoleonareaschools.org
Contact phone: 419-599-7015
Website: www.napoleonareaschools.org
Who is served: Members of schools in Northwest Ohio
Brief description: The Napoleon Area Schools offers services to over 400 students with disabilities. As a county provider of services for students with severe disabilities, the district utilizes a wide variety of services/technologies to meet the needs of our students.
MetroHealth Medical Center
2500 MetroHealth Drive
Cleveland, OH 44109-1998
USA
Contact person: Emily Hornack
Contact email: ehornack@metrohealth.org
Contact phone: 216-778-7751
Website: www.metrohealth.org
Who is served: Anyone in Northeast Ohio, adults and children.
Brief description: Today, as the largest hospital-based rehabilitation program in the state, the MetroHealth Rehabilitation Institute of Ohio provides inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation services from its primary location on the main campus of the MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland. The MetroHealth Medical Center, including its Level I trauma service, is a key entry point for many of our patients. Others are referred by medical facilities and providers throughout Ohio, across the country, and internationally.
Oklahoma
Oklahoma Assistive Technology Center
Oklahoma Assistive Technology Center
University Of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Department Of Rehabilitation Sciences - College Of Allied Health
1600 N. Phillips
Oklahoma City, OK 73104
Oklahoma Assistive Technology Center
University Of Oklahoma-Tulsa
Department Of Rehabilitation Sciences – College Of Allied Health
4502 East 41st Street
Tulsa, OK 74135
Contact person: Tricia Goodwin or Aviva Krause
Contact email: tricia-goodwin@ouhsc.edu or aviva-krause@ouhsc.edu
Contact phone: 918-660-3261 (Tricia) or 800-700-6282 (Aviva)
Website: www.theoatc.org/loan_program.asp
Who is served: Anyone in the state of Oklahoma
Brief description: The Oklahoma Assistive Technology Center (OATC) is dedicated to providing quality assistive technology services to Oklahoman’s with disabilities and their families; to providing professional and community education and technical assistance; and to research. In meeting the needs of Oklahoman’s with disabilities, the personnel of OATC employ a philosophy of "people first" and "contemporary practices" in habilitation and rehabilitation. Services provided are intended to assist individuals to participate fully in their own communities in the most cost-effective and timely manner possible. Services provided are age-appropriate, scientifically sound, and are designed to result in functional outcomes meaningful to the person and the person’s family or caregivers. These services are intended to meet the high quality assurance standards. OATC personnel are committed to education and training for professionals who serve individuals with disabilities, as well as the individual themselves and their families. OATC also provides education and training for colleges and universities, and for public and private agencies. OATC personnel also are committed to research designed to evaluate the outcomes of assistive technology and the cost benefit of the technology services, and to expand knowledge in the application of assistive technology.
Wagoner Hospital
29588 State Hwy 51
Wagoner, OK 74467
USA
Contact person: Missy Lasater
Contact email: m_lasater@msn.com
Contact phone: 918-441-4157
Who is served: Anyone in Wagoner and Muskogee County
Brief description: I would be available through Wagoner Outpatient Center and through my private office as well. They are both located in Wagoner, OK.
Tulsa Sunshine Center
2221 W. Detroit Street
Broken Arrow, OK 74012
USA
Contact person: Lauren E. Hutson
Contact email: lauren@tulsasunshinecenter.com
Contact phone: 918-615-6492
Website: www.tulsasunshinecenter.com
Who is served: Children in Tulsa County
Brief description: Tulsa Sunshine Center offers pediatric Speech, Occupational, and Physical therapy services. Our Mission is to provide innovative and fun approaches in a caring atmosphere, while empowering children to enhance their verbal, nonverbal, fine and gross motor skills that will benefit them for their lifetime. With practical and efficient solutions, we will accomplish our mission by integrating our specialized resources to treat and help children achieve their fullest potential.
Today’s Therapy Solutions
5500 North Western
Suite #153
Oklahoma City
OK 73118
USA
Contact person: Kelli Marshall or Andrea Douthitt
Contact email: todaystherapy@gmail.com
Contact phone: 405-286-3749
Website: www.todaystherapysolutions.com
Who is served: Anyone in Metro OKC
Brief description: Today’s Therapy Solutions provides diagnostic and therapy services to the people of Oklahoma City and surrounding areas. We provide neuropsychology services as well as behavior, occupational, speech and physical therapy.
Oregon
The ALS Association, Oregon & SW Washington Chapter
310 SW 4th Ave, Suite 630
Portland, OR 97204
USA
Contact person: Betts Peters, MA, CCC-SLP
Contact email: bettspeters@alsa-or.org
Contact phone: 503-238-5559
Website: www.alsa-or.org
Who is served: People with ALS in Oregon & SW Washington
Brief description: The ALS Association of Oregon and SW Washington is a voluntary non-profit organization whose mission is to lead the fight to cure and treat ALS through global cutting-edge research, and to empower people with Lou Gehrig’s disease and their families to live fuller lives by providing them with compassionate care and support. We offer assistance with medical equipment, respite care, and other resources, as well as advice and emotional support. We also employ a full-time speech-language pathologist/assistive technology specialist who provides evaluations and advice on augmentative communication and computer access.
Speech Camp
138 S. 12th
P. O. Box 1492
Philomath, OR 97370-1492
USA
Contact person: Rosemary Ayres
Contact email: speech@alyrica.net
Contact phone: 541-929-4568
Website: www.speechcampsite.com
Who is served: Anyone.
Brief description: Speech Camp is a speech therapy facility in Philomath, OR serving persons of any age who have any type of communication needs. We have several augmentative communication specialists on staff so that appointments can be made within a few days in most cases.
Portland State University
Speech and Hearing Sciences
PO Box 751
Portland, OR 97207
USA
Contact person: Desirae Robbins
Contact email: robbinsd@pdx.edu
Contact phone: 503-725-3665
Website: www.pdx.edu/sphr
Who is served: Anyone in Portland, OR and surrounding area
Brief description: University clinic
Oregon City School District
Special Services Department
1306 12th Street
Oregon City, OR 97045
USA
Contact person: Kerry Jeffrey
Contact email: kerry.jeffrey@orecity.k12.or.us
Contact phone: 503-805-6308
Website: www.orecity.k12.or.us
Who is served: Anyone in Oregon City, OR.
Brief description: Public school district located in Oregon City, Oregon (Clackamas County).
Pennsylvania
Bucks County Intermediate Unit
Bucks County Intermediate Unit
705 N. Shady Retreat Rd.
Doylestown, PA 18901
USA
Contact person: Lauren Enders
Contact email: Lenders@bucksiu.org
Contact phone: 215-348-2940
Website: www.bucksiu.org
Who is served: Members of schools in the Bucks County region; students in the age of 3 to 21. Brief description: The Bucks County Intermediate Unit is a regional provider of special education services for students in Bucks County, PA. Included in those services are assistive technology supports including assistance to teams educating children who require augmentative communication.
Easter Seals of Southeastern Pennsylvania
3975 Conshohocken Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19131
USA
Contact person: Cathy Hilton, Director of Assistive Technology
Contact email: chilton@easterseals-sepa.org
Contact phone: 215-945-7200
Website: sepa.easterseals.com
Who is served: Easter Seals of SEPA serves Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia Counties
Brief description: Easter Seals of SEPA provides consultation and evaluation services for augmentative and alternative communication; seating and positioning to facilitate access to assistive technology, computer adaptations for writing and communication. Our staff consists of AT and AAC speech specialists that are RESNA and ASHA certified.
State College Area School District
154 West Nittany Avenue
State College, PA 16801
USA
Contact person: Leslyn Radomsky
Contact email: lmr11@scsad.org
Contact phone: 814-231-1072
Website: www.scasd.org
Who is served: Children enrolled in Special Education within the State College Area School District
Brief description: Special Education Department in public school system.
ALS Center at Pennsylvania Hospital
Penn Comprehensive Neuroscience Center at Pennsylvania Hospital
330 South 9th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
USA
Contact person: Alisa Brownlee, ATP
Contact email: alisa@alsphiladelphia.org
Contact phone: 215-631-1877
Website: www.pennhealth.com/neuro/als/
Who is served: Augmentative/Alternative Communication evaluations are available for any person diagnosed with a communication disorder. These evaluations are provided by Pennsylvania Hospital’s Speech Department. For individuals with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease), evaluations and loan equipment are provided through the ALS Clinic. Loans are only available to people with ALS.
Brief description: The ALS Association Center at the Penn Comprehensive Neuroscience Center at Pennsylvania Hospital is a multidisciplinary center for the evaluation and treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and related disorders. Professional personnel representing a variety of interrelated disciplines care for the needs of each patient.
As part of our services, we offer Alternative/Augmentative Communication *AAC)evaluations for clients with ALS. For clients with other another diagnosis, complete AAC evaluations are provided through the speech therapy department within the hospital.
Three Rivers Center for Independent Living
900 Rebecca Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15221
USA
Contact person: Kevin Huwe, Assistive technology Program Manager
Contact email: khuwe@trcil.org
Contact phone: 412-371-7700 x111
Website: www.trcil.org/Assistive%20Technology%20Demonstration%20Center.htm
Who is served: Anyone in South Western Pennsylvania
Brief description: TRCIL’s Assistive Technology Device Demonstration Center is a sub-contractor to Pennsylvania’s Initiative on Assistive Technology’s (PIAT) Assistive Tech Lending Library (ATLL). The Demo Center allows consumers, Independent Living Professionals, family members, students, and other stake holders to come in for a hands-on guided tour and demonstration of assistive technology devices. We also provide off-site demonstrations, displays, and trainings on assistive technology. Following the demo / training, we provide information for the consumer / professional as to where they might obtain the device for themselves, and also provide information on any potential funding sources, such as the Pennsylvania Assistive Technology Foundation (PATF).
Assistive Technology Resource Center at UCP NE PA
425 Wyoming Ave.
Scranton, PA 18503
USA
Contact person: Linda Mesavage
Contact email: ucptech@yahoo.com
Contact phone: 570-347-3357
Website: www.ucpnepa.com
Who is served: North Eastern Pennsylvania
Brief description: The Assistive Technology Resource Center (ATRC) at UCP of NE PA provides AT services across age and disability in Northeastern PA.
As one of the ATRCs funded by PA’s Assistive Technology Act Program – Pennsylvania’s Initiative on Assistive Technology (Device Demonstrations, Public Awareness, Technical Assistance & Training, contact with AT related programs in PA, and Information & Assistance). We also provide evaluations and individual training.
UCP Central PA
485 St. Johns Church Road
Shiremanstown, PA 17011
USA
Contact person: Jackie Wardle
Contact email: jwardle@ucpcentralpa.org
Contact phone: 717-737-3477
Website: www.ucpcentralpa.org
Who is served: Aynone in Central PA
Brief description: UCP Central PA’s Assistive Technology Device Demonstration Center is a sub-contractor to Pennsylvania’s Initiative on Assistive Technology’s (PIAT) Assistive Tech Lending Library (ATLL). The Demo Center allows consumers, Independent Living Professionals, family members, students, and other stake holders to come in for a hands-on guided tour and demonstration of assistive technology devices. We also provide off-site demonstrations, displays, and trainings on assistive technology. We also provide information on where equipment may be able to obtain funding for the equipment.
Roads to Freedom
210 Market Street, Suite A
Williamsport, PA 17701
USA
Contact person: Julie Bair
Contact email: jbair@cilncp.org
Contact phone: 570-327-9070
Website: www.cilncp.org/atrc.html
Who is served: Anyone in North Central PA.
Brief description: Roads to Freedom Assistive Technology Device Demonstration Center is a sub-contractor to Pennsylvania’s Initiative on Assistive Technology’s (PIAT) Assistive Tech Lending Library (ATLL). The Demo Center allows consumers, Independent Living Professionals, family members, students, and other stake holders to come in for a hands-on guided tour and demonstration of assistive technology devices. We also provide off-site demonstrations, displays, and trainings on assistive technology. Roads to Freedom can provide information and referral to help educate consumers about their choices of AT devices, service providers and potential funding sources.
Tri-County Patriots for Independent Living
69 East Beau St.
Washington, PA 15301
USA
Contact person: Donya Smith
Contact email: tripil@tripil.com
Contact phone: 724-223-5115
Website: www.tripil.com
Who is served: Anyone in our district.
Brief description: TRIPIL is the local outreach partner of the statewide program known as Pennsylvania’s Initiative on Assistive Technology, (PIAT). As a partner, TRIPIL’s ATRC serves Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Fayette, Greene, Somerset and Washington counties. Device demonstrations provide hands-on opportunities for you to explore Assistive Technology devices in order to help you decide if certain devices are right for you.
Schuylkill Intermediate Unit #29
Schuylkill Intermediate Unit 29
17 Maple Avenue
Mar Lin, PA 17951
USA
Contact person: Cindy Studlack
Contact email: studc@iu29.org
Contact phone: 570-544-9131 ext. 2379
Website: www.iu29.org
Who is served: Anyone in Schuylkill County School Districts
Brief description: Schuylkill Intermediate Unit #29 is an educational service agency, one of twenty nine in Pennsylvania, created by the State Legislature in 1972. IU29 coordinates services for Schuylkill County Schools. The main services include special education, vocational education and defined mandated services including Continuing Education, Curriculum Services, Instructional Materials Services, Educational Planning, Pupil Personnel Services, and Federal and State Liaison responsibilities. The Schuylkill Intermediate Unit, in collaboration with school entities, community agencies, business and government partnerships, serves the changing needs of education through delivery of services, improvement of current programs and implementation of new initiatives.
Indiana Regional Medical Center
IRMC Outpatient Therapy
835 Hospital Road Indiana
PA 15701-0788
USA
Contact person: Seana Hollingsworth
Contact email: seanah@mac.com
Contact phone: 724-357-7068
Website: www.indianahospital.org/svc-pediatric-therapy.html
Who is served: Anyone in midwestern PA
Brief description: IRMC has an outpatient unit that serves pediatrics through geriatrics in a wide range of needs including, but not limited to: expressive and receptive language, articulation, aphasia, cognitive impairment, pragmatics, fluency, voice, dysphagia, and alternative & augmentative communication. Our department has two full time and two part time speech language pathologists who are capable to performing trials with AAC devices. We are open to single evaluations as well as follow-up therapy and AAC planning and collaboration.
PA’s Initiative on Assistive Technology
Institute on Disabilities at Temple University
1755 N. 13th Street
Student Center, Room 411 S
Philadelphia, PA 19122
USA
Contact person: Carrie Leonhart
Contact email: atinfo@temple.edu
Contact phone: 800-204-7428
Website: disabilities.temple.edu/piat
Who is served: Anyone in Philadelphia, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery Counties
Brief description: Pennsylvania’s Initiative on Assistive Technology (PIAT) offers information and referral about Assistive Technology (AT), device demonstrations (by appointment), and awareness-level presentations. PIAT’s programs include: Pennsylvania’s AT Lending Library, a free, state-supported program that loans AT devices to Pennsylvanians of all ages; the Telecommunication Device Distribution Program (TDDP), a program that provides free specialized equipment to people with disabilities which prevent them from using regular telephone equipment; and the Reused and Exchanged Equipment Partnership (REEP), a network of programs offering ways for people to obtain, donate, or sell AT equipment.
The Vista School
1249 Cocoa Avenue
Hershey, PA 17033
USA
Contact person: James Koons
Contact email: jkoons@thevistaschool.org
Contact phone: (717) 835-0310
Website: www.thevistaschool.org/
Who is served: Anyone in Central Pennsylvania
Brief description: A group of highly committed parents and professionals, seeking to create an alternative educational and therapeutic program in Central Pennsylvania, established The Vista School to prepare children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) to function in the community with increasing independence. The Vista School opened its doors to 4 children on February 4, 2002, and since that day has been committed to preparing its students for meaningful involvement in public school programs, community activities, or eventual productive work. Vista currently serves more than 68 children with ASD ranging in age from pre-kindergarten to secondary school age from Berks, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Juniata, Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry, and York Counties.
Rhode Island
TechACCESS of RI
110 Jefferson Blvd.
Suite I
Warwick, RI 02888
USA
Contact person: Kelly Charlebois
Contact email: techaccess@techaccess-ri.org
Contact phone: 401-463-0202
Website: www.techaccess-ri.org
Who is served: Anyone in Rhode Island, Southeastern MA
Brief description: TechACCESS of RI is an assistive technology center providing information, individual assistive technology assessment, consultation, device training and professional development on a wide variety of technologies for people of all ages and all disabilities. TechACCESS believes that the use of appropriate technology can significantly impact the life of a person with a disability and works closely with users, families, educators, and employers to help identify the best technology solutions for an individual.
South Carolina
South Carolina Assistive Technology Program
Device Loan Program
8301 Farrow Road
Columbia, SC 29208
USA
Contact person: Carol A. Page
Contact email: Carol.Page@uscmed.sc.edu
Contact phone: 1-800-915-4522
Website: www.sc.edu/scatp/
Who is served: People with disabilities in South Carolina
Brief description: SCATP is a federally-funded program that strives to increase statewide access to and acquisition of assistive technology for people of all ages and abilities. We provide hands-on demonstrations of assistive technology devices, short-term loans for devices, information and referrals, consultations and training for groups.
South Dakota
University of South Dakota Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic
Scottish Rite Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
University of South Dakota
414 E Clark St
Vermillion, SD 56069
USA
Contact person: Elizabeth K. Hanson
Contact email: ekhanson@usd.edu
Contact phone: 605.677.5475
Website: www.usd.edu/arts-and-sciences/communication-sciences-and-disorders/index.cfm
Who is served: Primarily southeastern South Dakota, northwestern Iowa, northeastern Nebraska, and southwestern Minnesota
Brief description: The USD Scottish Rite Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic is part of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. We train graduate students to be speech-language pathologists and audiologists. Faculty provide student training, clinical student supervision, and conduct research in a variety of areas.
Tennessee
Kim Lapidus M.S., CCC-SLP
718 Bresslyn Road
Nashville, TN 37205
USA
Contact person: Kim Lapidus
Contact email: kimlapidus@yahoo.com
Contact phone: (615) 352-9096
Who is served: Anyone in Nashville and surrounding areas
Brief description: I am a private speech-language pathologist in Nashville, TN providing evalutations and community based augmentative and alternative communication therapy to any child or teen who wants to be heard. I specialize in augmentative and alternative communication and provide direct training in the programming and use of AAC devices. I work with the families to create the most personal communication pages for various devices. In addition, I empower the families and caregivers to use language facilitation strategies to make AAC systems as powerful as they can be across a variety of natural settings.
The Center for Independent Living of Middle TN
955 Woodland St.
Nashville, TN 37206
USA
Contact person: MaryLee Perkins
Contact email: ml.perkins@gmail.com
Contact phone: 615-292-5803
Website: www.cil-mt.org
Who is served: Anyone in Middle Tennessee.
Brief description: The Center for Independent Living of Middle Tennessee provides many types of support for people with disabilities. These include housing location, Braille document production, community sensitivity training, information on how SSI and SSDI will be impacted when a person goes to work, peer support training, and computer classes for disabled people to enhance their employment possibilities. Personalized training on specific adaptive deices and software is also given.
Department of Intellectual Disabilities/State of TN
291 Stewarts Ferry Pike
Nashville, TN 37214
USA
Contact person: Allyne Hart
Contact email: Allyne.Hart@tn.gov
Contact phone: 625-231-5440
Website: www.tn.gov/dids/regional_offices/locations.html
Who is served: Clients in middle Tennessee who are provided services through the Mecaid Waiver Program
Brief description: The State of Tennessee, Department of Intellectual Disabilities, is divided into 3 Regions. Each office location has an AAC specialist along with a lending library of various systems to assist in AAC evaluations and treatment. The devices can be loaned to therapists for a designated amount of time for trials. This allows the therapist to make the appropriate recommendation for the individual.
East Tennessee Technology Access Center
116 Childress St.
Knoxville TN 37920
USA
Contact person: Alice Wershing
Contact email: awershing@aol.com
Contact phone: (865) 219-0130
Website: www.discoveret.org/ettac
Who is served: Anyone in the 24 counties in East TN
Brief description: The Mission of the East Tennessee Technology Access Center is to enable people with disabilities in East Tennessee to reach their potential for functioning in the mainstream of society through innovative uses of technology. ETTAC was started in 1988 by a group of parents, adults with disabilities, business people and service providers in the community who held an uncommon belief in the power of technology to help people with disabilities reach their goals. Since 1988, ETTAC has provided a wide range of assistive technology services to thousands of people with disabilities, teachers, therapists, other service providers, and area businesses. ETTAC works with people with disabilities of all ages and all types of disabilities, and no one is denied services based on ability to pay, age, type of disability, race, religion, or sex.
Texas
Taylor-Callahan Education Cooperative
6251 Buffalo Gap Road
Abilene, TX 79606
USA
Contact person: Sue Black
Contact email: sblack@tcec.us
Contact phone: (325) 665-3914
Website: www.tcec.us
Who is served: 7 school districts in the Taylor-Callahan Cooperatives service area
Brief description: The Taylor-Callahan Education Cooperative serves children attending the following Independent School Districts: Baird, Clyde, Eula, Jim Ned, Merkel, Trent, Wylie
Technology Enhanced Learning & Living
223 W. Anderson Ln #A115
Austin, TX 78752
USA
Contact person: Jamie Judd-Wall
Contact email: jamie@tellenterprises.net
Contact phone: 512-807-8955
Website: www.tellenterprises.net/
Who is served: Anyone in Texas
Brief description: Our center provides a range of assistive technology services focusing on addressing communication and learning needs. Our staff includes SLPs and ATPs experienced with a wide range of handicapping conditions.
The Accendo Initiative
8029 Villefranche
Corpus Christi, TX 78414
USA
Contact person: Pamela Corley/Merry Fore/Robert McGovern
Contact email: pamcorley@stx.rr.com
Contact phone: 361-288-5733
Website: www.accendoinitiative.com
Who is served: Anyone in South Texas
Brief description: The Accendo Initiative is a consultancy dedicated to everyday AAC and ASD solutions. We specialize in hands-on training for parents and professionals in the use of assistive technology tools with an emphasis on augmentative communication devices.
Education Service Center/Region 14
1850 Hwy. 351
Abilene, Texas 79601
USA
Contact person: Maryann Brady
Contact email: mabrady@esc14.net
Contact phone: 325-675-8635
Website: www.esc14.net
Who is served: Any students in the Region 14 Education Service Center region
Brief description: Region 14 Education Service Center provides professional development services for professional staffs throughout 42 districts, charter schools and private schools within our geographic region. Consultant staffs of Region 14 ESC offer services in technical assistance, on-site evaluations, and materials to provide tools and technology resources to improve and maintain life-long learning for students.
Cook Children’s Northeast Rehab
750 Mid-Cities Blvd. Ste 110
Hurst, TX 76051
USA
Contact person: Angie Boisselle
Contact email: angie.boisselle@cookchildrens.org
Contact phone: 817-605-2938
Website: www.cookchildrens.org
Who is served: Children in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Brief description: Cook Children’s Rehabilitation Services offer a variety of specialties, including audiology, speech and language therapy, occupational and physical therapies. Services include evaluation, treatment, parent education and consultation regarding acute, subacute or chronic impairments. Cook Children’s Northeast Rehab staffs a Speech Language Pathologist and OT/Assistive Technology Professional who provide our patients with personalized training in the use of assistive technology and augmentative communication.
University of North Texas Speech and Hearing Center
907 W. Sycamore St.
Denton, Texas 76203
USA
Contact person: Kathy Thomas
Contact email: kathyt@unt.edu
Contact phone: 940-369-7339
Website: www.sphs.unt.edu
Who is served: Anyone in North Texas Area
Brief description: We are a comprehensive, university based speech-language hearing clinic with 8 speech-language pathologists and 5 audiologists. We have an active AAC program, including a specialized assessment clinic for children and adults. In addition, we partner with the DFW MDA Society to hold a monthly communication device clinic for individuals with ALS. We see over 80 clients per year to determine benefit for AAC technology.
Applied Behavioral Strategies
3001 Bee Caves Road
Suite 150
Austin, TX 78746
USA
Contact person: Rebecca Ryan
Contact email: behavioralstrategies@me.com
Contact phone: 512-431-1540
Website: www.appliedbehavioralstrategies.com
Who is served: Anyone in our country
Brief description: Applied Behavioral Strategies provides ABA training and consultative services for parents, schools and other care givers. ABS targets development of critical life skills, including communication, social, adaptive and behavioral skills.
Turn Center
Temporary address:
Turn Center
1250 Wallace Blvd.
Amarillo, Texas 79106
USA
Permanent address (March)
Turn Center:
1300 Wallace Blvd.
Amarillo, Texas 79106
USA
Contact person: Donna Phipps
Contact email: donna@turncenter.org
Contact phone: 806-353.3596
Website: www.turncenter.org
Who is served: Anyone in the Texas Panhandle Area
Brief description: Turn Center is a full service rehabilitation center providing speech therapy, occupational therapy and physical therapy to Amarillo and the Texas Panhandle as a non-profit organization.
Utah
Computer Center for Citizens With Disabilities at UCAT
1595 West 500 South
Salt Lake City, UT 84104
USA
Contact person: Craig Boogaard
Contact email: cboogaar@utah.gov
Contact phone: 801-887-9380
Website: www.usor.utah.gov:81/ucat/ucat_computer_center.htm
Who is served: Anyone in Utah
Brief description: We are a state funded assistive technology program providing AT services to residents of Utah.
Vermont
Windham Southeast Supervisory Union
184 Green St.
Brattleboro, VT 05301
USA
Contact person: Maxine Stent, MS, OTR/L, ATP
Contact email: maxine_stent@wsesu.org
Contact phone: 802-254-3779
Who is served: Members of school districts in Windham County
Brief description: School district servicing children from birth to 22 years of age. Towns in our district include: Brattleboro, Putney, Dummerston, Vernon, and Guilford. Willing to do loans to all of Windham County.
Practical Assistive Technology Solutions
789 Hammond Hill Road
West WIndsor, Vermont 05089
USA
Contact person: Phyl T. Macomber
Contact email: Phyl@PracticalATSolutions.com
Contact phone: 802-484-3537
Website: www.PracticalATSolutions.com
Who is served: Anyone in New England
Brief description: Phyl T. Macomber is a national speaker and author on topics of adapted curriculum augmentative communication, collaborative team building, and specialized software. Phyl provides diagnostic, consultative, and training services in New England and on a national basis.
Rutland Tryout Center
Vermont Assistive Technology Program
190 Asa Bloomer Building
88 Merchants Row
Rutland, VT 05701
USA
Contact person: Dan Gilman
Contact email: dan.gilman@ahs.state.vt.us
Contact phone: 802 786-5936
Website: www.dail.state.vt.us/atp/
Who is served: Anyone in Addison County, Rutland County, Bennington County, Windsor County, Windham County.
Brief description: The Rutland Tryout Center conduct meetings where specific Assistive Technology devices, or software are demonstrated for the purpose of assisting consumers and/or their representatives in making informed decisions about Assistive Technologies.
Waterbury Try-Out Center
103 So. Main St. Weeks Bldg
Waterbury, VT 05641-2305
USA
Contact person: David Punia
Contact email: atinfo@ahs.state.vt.us
Contact phone: 800-750-6355
Website: www.dail.state.vt.us/atp
Who is served: Anyone in Vermont
Brief description: The Vermont Assistive Technology Program serves Vermonters of all ages and abilities. VATP provides information and assistance, training for service providers and others, equipment and software demonstrations, tryouts, and technical assistance. Other services include public awareness activities, a regional AT equipment exchange program, and short term lending of AT equipment.
Vermont Family Network
600 Blair Park
Williston, VT 05495
USA
Contact person: Chris CichoskiKelly
Contact email: Chris.CichoskiKelly@vtfn.org
Contact phone: 802-876-5315
Website: www.vtfn.org
Who is served: Anyone in Vermont
Brief description: We provide Assistive technology demonstrations to parents and professionals.
V.O.I.C.E
338 River Street
Montpelier
Vermont
USA
Contact person: Julie Taylor
Contact email: julie2slp@aol.com
Contact phone: (802) 371-9867
Website: voiceaaccenter.com
Who is served: Anyone in Northern New England
Brief description: V.O.I.C.E. AAC Center located in Montpelier, Vermont offering speech generating device evaluation, consultation, training, user groups, family and care giver groups. All major speech generating device vendors represented with equipment at V.O.I.C.E.
CDCI Assistive Technology & Access Try Out center
Center on Disability and Community Inclusion
208 Colchester Ave.
Mann Hall 3rd floor
Burlington, VT 05405
USA
Contact person: Marie MacLeod
Contact email: cdciat@uvm.edu
Contact phone: 802-656—4031
Website: cdciat@uvm.edu
Who is served: Anyone in Vermont
Brief description: The mission of the CDCI AT Tryout & Access Center is to increase the use of technology by children and adults with disabilities and functional limitations. CDCI encourages and facilitates the empowerment of people with disabilities to participate fully in their communities. Through public education, information and referral, capacity building, thru our community try out center, and advocacy/policy efforts, the UCCED enables Vermonters to live, learn, work, define their futures, and achieve their dreams.
Virginia
Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters Oyster Point Satellite
11783 Rock Landing Drive
Newport News, VA 23606
USA
Contact person: Kathy Howard, Insurance Coordinator and Scheduler
Contact email: Katherine.Howard@chkd.org
Contact phone: 757-668-6201
Website: www.chkd.org
Who is served: Children in Virginia Peninsula
Brief description: We are an outpatient pediatric facility that provides augmentative communication and assistive technology evaluation and treatment.
Kellar Institute for Human disAbilities
George Mason University
4400 University Drive
MS 1 F 2
Fairfax, VA 22030
USA
Contact person: Emily Fallings
Contact email: emckeoug@gmu.edu
Contact phone: 703-993-3929
Website: www.kihd.org
Who is served: Anyone in the state of Virginia
Brief description: The Kellar Institute for Human DisAbilities (KIHD) is an interdisciplinary campus based organization that focuses on the mission statement,"improving the lives and productivity of persons with disabilities." KIHd combines the resources of George Mason University (GMU) with local, state, regional, national, public, and private sector agencies and organizations to develop products, services, and programs for persons with disabilities.
VATS-SE
Virginia Assistive Technology System - Southeast
Education Building Hampton Blvd
Norfolk, VA 23529
USA
Contact person: Joann Ervin
Contact email: jervin@odu.edu
Contact phone: 757-683-3639
Website: www.lions.odu.edu/org/vats/
Who is served: Anyone in Hampton Roads Virginia
Brief description: VATS-SE is located at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. We are a federally funded grant program and works with people with disabilities and senior citizens to assist them in learning about assistive technology that can help them remain independent as long as possible. People can make an appointment to come into our lab and try out equipment before the purchase of equipment is made.
VATS-SW
Virginia Assistive Technology System - Southwest
220A War Memorial Hall (0313)
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg VA 24061
USA
Contact person: Rick Barrow, M.S., CRC
Contact email: swvats@vt.edu
Contact phone: 540-231-0976
Website: www.swvats.soe.vt.edu
Who is served: Individuals with disabilities in our region.
Brief description: We are one of three regional sites of the Virginia Assistive Technology System, a statewide project committed to improving the quality of life for all Virginians by increasing awareness and accessibility of Assistive Technology (AT).
Virginia Tech T/TAC
Training and Technical Assistance Center (T/TAC)
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
250 South Main Street
Suite 326 (0254)
Blacksburg, VA 24061
USA
Contact person: Royce Jacomen
Contact email: rjacomen@vt.edu
Contact phone: 540-231-0822
Website: www.ttac.vt.edu
Who is served: Anyone in our district.
Brief description: We serve public schools in regions 6 and 7 in Virginia. Our services are for providing professional consultation to schools and families working with students with disabilities.
Washington
PROVAIL
12550 Aurora Ave. N
Seattle, WA 98133
USA
Contact person: Donna Cole Wilson
Contact email: donnac@provail.org
Contact phone: 206-826-1028
Website: www.provail.org
Who is served: Anyone in Western Washington
Brief description: We serve adults and children with a range of disabilities. We work with the telephone equipment distribution (TED) center in our state for people with speech disabilities. We have a contract with speech to speech services to educate people about telephone relay. We have a full assistive technology program and do a computer access camp for kids each summer. Our caseload is 70% AAC users. We are a non profit organization and our clinic is community based. PROVAIL also has a community living program and employment program. We get funding from insurance, DVR, TED, privately and through school districts. We have 3 Speech Language Pathologists and 1 OT and 2 Assistive technologist on our clinical team.
Spokane Schools Assistive Technology
ITSC
4714 E 8th Ave
Spokane, WA 99212
USA
Contact person: John Gale
Contact email: johngale@spokaneschools.org
Contact phone: 509-354-7621
Website: appsforlearning.wikispaces.com
Who is served: "Inland Northwest": eastern WA, northern ID
Brief description: Assistive Technology and UDL lab for Spokane Schools (WA School District #81), located at Libby Center.
Assistive Technology Solutions
19110 SE 47th Place
Issaquah, WA 98027
USA
Contact person: Mark Russel
Contact email: mark@atsolutions.biz
Contact phone: 425-373-1315
Website: www.atsolutions.biz
Who is served: Anyone in the State of Washington
Brief description: We provide a full range of assistive technology services to individuals with disabilities in Washington state including augmentative and alternative communication evaluation and training. Clients include schools, Vocational Rehabilitation, Veteran Affairs, hospitals, rehabilitation centers and families. Mark Russel, MS, CCC, ATP President and Owner of Assistive Technology Solutions has over 25 years of experience working with with children and adults with severe communication impairments.
University Hearing and Speech Clinic
Health Sciences Building, Suite 120
310 N Riverpoint Blvd, Box V
Spokane, WA
USA
Contact person: Lindsay Williams, MA, CCC/SLP
Contact email: lwilliams1@ewu.edu
Contact phone: 509-828-1323
Website: www.ewu.edu/CSHE/Programs/Communication-Disorders/Clinic.xml
Who is served: Anyone in Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho
Brief description: The University Hearing and Speech Clinic is located on the WSU Riverpoint Campus in Spokane, WA. We provide comprehensive evaluation and therapeutic services to adults and children for speech, language, and hearing problems. These include: articulation disorders, language disorders, fluency, stuttering, augmentative and alternative communication, neurogenic communication disorders, accent reduction, dysphagia and hearing impairment. We also contract with the State of Washington to educate residents on speech to speech services and to provide telecommunication access to people with speech disabilities.
MOSAIC Center for Therapy Services-Seattle
4909 25th Ave NE, #200
Seattle, WA 98105
USA
Contact person: Nola Marriner
Contact email: nmarriner@mosaicrehab.com
Contact phone: 206 388 3751
Website: www.mosaicrehab.com/seattle/
Who is served: Anyone in the Pacific North West
Brief description: MOSAIC-Center for Therapy Services-Seattle provides speech, occupational and physical therapy for children and adults. AAC evaluations and services are available for those individuals for whom speech is still developing or not functional. Our focus involves both low tech and high tech approaches with the ultimate goal of functional communication for all.
Washington Assistive Technology Act Program
4907 25th Avenue NE
Seattle, WA 98105
USA
Contact person: Maria Kelley
Contact email: watap@uw.edu
Contact phone: 800.214.8731
Website: watap.org/
Who is served: Anyone in Washington
Brief description: The Washington Assistive Technology Act Program (WATAP)provides assistive technology resources and expertise to all Washingtonians with disabilities to aid in making decisions and obtaining the technology and related services needed for employment, education and independent living. Consumers with disabilities or their advocates in Washington state can contact WATAP to schedule a demonstration and/or borrow assistive devices.
Sherwood Community Services: TechSTEP Program
402 91st Ave NE
Lake Stevens, WA 98258
USA
Contact person: Susan St. John
Contact email: sstjohn@sherwoodcs.org
Contact phone: 425-334-4071 x 201
Website: www.sherwoodcs.org
Who is served: Anyone in Washington State: Preference to Snohomish, Island and Skaggit Counties
Brief description: TechSTEP opens the door of opportunities for individuals with disabilities by providing much needed adapted equipment and training. We are located in Snohomish County. Anyone in Western Washington that has a disability requiring assistive technology support is eligible for TechSTEP services. We serve all age groups from birth through adulthood. TechSTEP also offers assistive technology training classes to support the needs of the families, caregivers, staff and employers of people with disabilities who use adapted equipment. The possibilities for a person with disabilities are endless when given the chance to use adapted equipment!!Our Services: Augmentative Communication, Speech Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Positioning, Computer Access Center, Assistive Technology Consults, Lending Library, Training Classes, Employment Support for Adapted Needs.
North Central ESD
430 Olds Station Road
Wenatchee, WA 98801
USA
Contact person: Pete Phillips
Contact email: petep@ncesd.org
Contact phone: 5096677109
Website: www.ncesd.org
Who is served: Anyone in the North Central Washington State.
Brief description: We are a service center for k-12 schools in Washington State. We provide in-service and Professional Development training for teachers and administrators.
Washington, D.C.
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
6900 Georgia Ave
Washington, D.C. 20307
USA
Contact person: Bryan Lewis, MS, CCC-SLP
Contact email: william.jb.lewis@us.army.mil
Contact phone: 202-782-6676
Website: www.wramc.amedd.army.mil
Who is served: DoD Active duty, retirees and their dependents anywhere in the country.
Brief description:The Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) is the United States Army’s flagship medical center. Located in Washington, D.C., it serves more than 150,000 active and retired personnel from all branches of the military. The center is named after Major Walter Reed (1851–1902), an army physician who led the team which confirmed that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes rather than direct contact. Since its origins, what is now the WRAMC medical care facility has grown from a bed capacity of 80 patients to approximately 5,500 rooms. WRAMC will be combining with the Bethesda Naval Hospital by 2011 to form the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center (WRNMMC).
Wisconsin
CESA #2 Assistive Technology Preview center
1221 Innovation Drive, Suite 205
Whitewater, WI 53190
USA
Contact person: Jill Gierach
Contact email: jgtechloft@gmail.com
Contact phone: 262.473.1473
Website: www.cesa2.k12.wi.us
Who is served: Primarily the seventy-four school districts in our region.
Brief description: CESA 2 has the largest regional assistive technology preview library in the state. We provide services primarily to the seventyfour districts who support the library through a membership fee.
Masters Family Speech and Hearing Center at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin
9000 W. Wisconsin Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53201
USA
Contact person: Masters Family Speech and Hearing (coordinator)
Contact email: hswider@chw.org
Contact phone: 414-266-2934
Website: www.chw.org
Who is served: Anyone in our country (primarily WI, MN, IL, MI)
Brief description: We are a center that evaluates and treats patients with a wide variety of communication, feeding/swallowing and hearing impairments; many with underlying medical conditions.
Cooperative Educational Service Agency 10 (CESA 10)
CESA 10
725 W. Park Ave.
Chippewa Falls, WI 54729
USA
Contact person: Rebecca Kowalczyk, AT Consultant/OTR
Contact email: rkowalczyk@cesa10.k12.wi.us
Contact phone: 715-720-2162
Website: www.cesa10.k12.wi.us
Who is served: School Districts in West Central Wisconsin (USA) and Birth to Three for the Wisconsin counties of Buffalo, Trempeleau, Rusk, and Price. The following School Districts are our members: Abbotsford, Altoona, Agusta, Bloomer, Bruce, Cadott, Chippewa Falls, Colby, Cornell, Eau Claire, Eleva-Strum, Fall Creek, Flambeau, Gilman, Gilmanton, Granton, Greenwood, Ladysmith, Lake Holcombe, Loyal, Medford, Mondovi, Neillsville, New Auburn, Osseo-Fairchild, Owen-Withee, Spencer, Stanley-Boyd, Thorp, Weyerhauser.
Brief description: CESA 10 is one of 12 in Wisconsin and provides services to 29 member school districts in northwest Wisconsin. The specific services provided to each district vary depending on the district’s needs. Services are offered on a cooperative basis and therefore cost effective for member districts. CESA 10 has traditionally offered services in three general areas: special education, instructional services, and instructional technology. CESA 10 also provides Birth to Three Therapy Services to contracted counties.
Wyoming
WIND Assistive Technology Resources
1000 E. University Avenue, Dept. 4298
Laramie, WY 82071
USA
Contact person: Mary Fick-Monteith
Contact email: watr@uwyo.edu
Contact phone: (307) 766-6187
Website: uwyo.edu/wind/watr/
Who is served: Anyone in Wyoming
Brief description: Initiated in October 2005, WATR is Wyoming’s Assistive Technology project. WATR’s aim is to increase access to and acquisition of assistive technology in the areas of education, employment, community living, and IT/telecommunications. WATR hosts a device loan and demonstration center,as well as a reutilization program at the WATR main office. Training specific to devices, software and practical applications are available throughout the state.
University of Wyoming
Division of Communication Disorders
Dept. 3311
1000 E. University Ave.
Laramie, WY 82071
USA
Contact person: Jill E Senner, PhD, CCC-SLP
Contact email: jsenner@uwyo.edu
Contact phone: 307-766-5577
Website: uwadmnweb.uwyo.edu/comdis/info.asp?p=13746
Who is served: Anyone in Wyoming
Brief description: The UW Speech, Language and Hearing Clinic is located on the campus of the University of Wyoming, in Room 160 of the Health Sciences Center. The UW Clinic services include evaluation and treatment for disorders in communication, including speech, language, hearing, swallowing, voice, AAC, and stuttering. Speech-language services are also available for accent reduction, deviant swallowing patterns, consultations and screenings.
