Computers and Technology: Resource Centers & Programs
- ABLEDATA
Provides objective information about assistive technology products and
rehabilitation equipment available from domestic and international sources.
Although ABLEDATA does not sell any products, we can help you locate the
companies that do.
- Alliance for Technology Access (ATA)
ATA is a network of community-based resource centers dedicated to providing information and support services to children and adults with disabilities, and increasing their use of standard, assistive, and information technologies. Centers can be found all across the country.
- Archimedes Project
This project improves access to information for individuals with disabilities by influencing the early design stages of tomorrow's technology. It aims to educate those who will develop the next generation of software and hardware about the obstacles and opportunities that technology presents for individuals with disabilities and the advantages for the whole community of designing for general access.
- Assistive Technology Industry
Association
The mission of ATIA is to serve as the collective voice of the Assistive
Technology industry so that the best products and services are delivered to
people with disabilities. ATIA represents the interests of its members to
business, government, education, and the many agencies that serve people with
disabilities.
- Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST)
This center is a non-profit organization whose mission is to expand opportunities for people with disabilities through innovative innovative computer technology. It pursues this mission through research and product development, that further universal design for learning.
- Center on Information Technology Accommodation (CITA)
CITA is a technical demonstration and resource center assisting Federal agencies to achieve successful investments in IT (information technology) architecture and public service applications. A critical success measure of public IT service investments today, is maximum utility by many Americans whose contributions to society reflect broad life-experience differences (disability, language, aging, location, culture, income, etc.).
- Equal Access to Software & Information (EASI)
Its mission is to serve as a resource for the education community by providing information and guidance in the area of access-to-information technologies by individuals with disabilities. EASI stays informed about developments and advancements within the adaptive computer technology field and spread that information to colleges, universities, K-12 schools, libraries and into the workplace.
- RESNA - Rehab Engineering & Assistive
Technology Society of America
Has a purpose is to improve the potential of people with disabilities to achieve
their goals through the use of technology by promoting research, development,
education, advocacy and provision of technology; and by supporting the people
engaged in these activities.
- State Tech Act Projects
This site lists the states and U.S. Territories that have been funded by The National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), U.S. Department of Education, under the Technology-Related Assistance For Individuals With Disabilities Act of 1988 (Tech Act) (and Amendments of 1994). The Tech Act authorizes the U.S. Department of Education to provide grants, on a competitive basis, to establish and operate consumer-responsive, statewide programs to provide people with disabilities and their families with information about the availability of assistive technology products and services.
- Trace Research & Development Center
This center is an interdisciplinary research, development, and resource center on technology and disability. The mission of the center is: "To advance the ability of people with disabilities to achieve their life objectives through the use of communication, computer and information technologies."