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Technology: Disability Organizations
- Ability Online Support Network
- Enhances the lives of children and youth with disabilities or illness by providing an online community of friendship and support.
- Ability Society
- Provides information and access to assistive devices and technology for persons with disabilities.
- Access Ability
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- Adaptive Technology Resource Centre (ATRC)
- Promotes access to information and technology by people with disabilities through service, education, research and development.
- Alternate Media Canada
- Researches and develops technical systems and products of benefit to Canadians who are blind or have low vision.
- Assistive Devices and Home Oxygen Programs, Ministry of Health and LTC
- Financially assists Ontario residents with long-term physical disabilities to obtain basic assistive devices appropriate for their needs and essential for independent living.
- Assistive Technology Centre
- Supports and enhances the functional capabilities of people with disabilities through technology, and provides assessments and training on assistive devices.
- ATN (Accommodation, Training & Networking for Persons with Disab.)
- Specializes in pre-employment skills and job search assistance for adults with disabilities, utilizing computer-assisted learning and access technologies.
- Audiothèque pour Personnes Handicapées de l'Imprimé du Québec, Inc.
- Serves people with disabilities who are unable to access written information.
- AudioVision Canada
- Offers described video services to make film, TV, video programs accessible to people who are blind, have low vision or have difficulty accessing video-based info because of other dis.
- BC Institute of Technology - Disability Resource Centre
- Committed to providing access to any student with a disability.
- British Columbia College and Institute Library Services (CILS)
- Provides alternate format resources to post-secondary students with print disabilities in British Columbia.
- Canadian Adaptive Seating and Mobility Association
- Activities include an annual Canadian Seating and Mobility Conference.
- Canadian Braille Authority (CBA)
- Dedicated to the promotion of Braille as the primary medium for persons who are blind.
- Centre for Sight Enhancement
- Provides clinical rehabilitation services for people with visual disabilities, as well as research and development of related assistive device technologies.
- Centre for Studies in Aging (CSiA)
- Undertakes research and development in aging, with a special focus on technology for mobility.
- Communicaid for Hearing Impaired Persons (CHIP)
- This self-help aural rehabilitation group educates members about services, equipment & strategies to help adjust to hearing loss, and helps institutions become more accessible to the hearing impaired.
- Crane Resource Centre / Disability Resource Centre
- Serves persons requiring alternatives to print by providing materials, technology, information and transcription services.
- Creative Opportunities and Reality Expressions (COARE)
- A non-profit website lifestyle company that distributes products and services to promote positive self-worth, an independent lifestyle, fun and pride for people with disabilities.
- Ferguson Library for Print-Handicapped Students
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- Industry Canada - Assistive Devices Industry Office
- Provides information to organizations developing tools and technologies that improve communication for people with disabilities.
- Institut Nazareth et Louis Braille
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- La Magnetotheque
- A library of talking books.
- LiNKd Project
- A pilot project that develops and evaluates the use of electronic resources to facilitate the coordination and care of children with disabilities in Manitoba.
- Materials Resource Centre for the Visually Impaired
- Provides alternate format materials and specialized equipment to schools for use by students with perceptual disabilities who are integrated into regular classrooms.
- National Broadcast Reading Service (NBRS) Inc.
- Through its divisions (Voiceprint and AudioVision Canada), NBRS makes visual media accessible to Canadians with vision or other print restrictions, and their families.
- Neil Squire Foundation
- We use technology, knowledge and passion to empower Canadians with physical disabilities.
- Neil Squire Foundation - Central Regional Office
- Creates independence through education, technology and career development for people with physical disabilities.
- Neil Squire Foundation - R&D; Group Office
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- Neil Squire Society
- We use technology, knowledge and passion to empower Canadians with physical disabilities.
- Neil Squire Society
- We use technology, knowledge and passion to empower Canadians with physical disabilities.
- Neil Squire Society - Atlantic Regional Office
- Use technology, knowledge and passion to empower Canadians with physical disabilities.
- Ontario Rehabilitation Technology Consortium
- Enhances the lives of people effected by disabilities through the research, development and evaluation of innovative, useful assistive devices.
- People in Motion
- Organizes Canada's most comprehensive annual exhibition for persons with disabilities, seniors with special needs and health care and rehabilitation professionals.
- People in Motion
- Organizes Canada's most comprehensive annual exhibition for persons with disabilities, seniors with special needs and health care and rehabilitation professionals.
- ProductABILITY
- Community consulting services, including a product information referral service on adaptive technologies/products, barrier-free & universal design consultations, and functional/site assessment.
- Provincial Resource Centre for the Visually Impaired
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- RCL (Québec) for the Disabled Inc. / RCL (Québec) pour les Handicapés Inc.
- Helps low-income adults with physical disabilities, 18 years and over, to become more independent in their everyday lives, by providing them with specialized equipment.
- Regroupement des Personnes Handicapées du Haut-Richelieu Inc.
- Helps maintain the independence and dignity of people with disabilities by providing access to equipment and services.
- SET-BC (Special Education Technology of British Columbia)
- A provincial resource program that assists school districts in educating students with disabilities through the use of technology.
- SET-BC - Cariboo/Chilcotin Region
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- SET-BC - North Coast Region
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- SET-BC - Northeast BC Region
- Provides technology assistance to students with physical and vision disabilities and autism throughout British Columbia.
- SET-BC - Region 4 (Kootenay)
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- SET-BC - Thompson/Okanagan Region #3
- Lends assistive technologies to ensure students' access to educational programs, and assists school districts in providing training for students/educators in the use of these technologies.
- SET-BC Region One - Victoria
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- Society for Manitobans with Disabilities - Wheelchair Services
- Loans, repairs and maintains manual and motorized wheelchairs and accessories for Manitobans with physical disabilities who live independently within their community.
- Special Materials Services
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- Special Needs Opportunity Window (SNOW)
- Provides an interactive learning experience, with information on special education and classroom technology, and online forums and workshops for educators of individuals with special needs.
- Spoken Word AudioBooks
- Retail store specializing in books on cassette tape.
- Stride Assistance for the Disabled, Inc.
- Provides financial assistance for the purchase of equipment to people with disabilities in need who are not eligible for other programs, and operates a recycling depot for equipment.
- Sunnybrook Centre for Independent Living (SCIL)
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- Tetra Assistive Devices Society
- Creates unique solutions to meet the unique equipment requests of people with disabilities.
- Tetra Assistive Society of London
- Develops, invents or customizes special tools or adapts existing tools, to fill a specific need by a specific person with a disability, using the ingenuity & skill of qualified volunteers.
- Tetra Red Deer
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- Tetra Society - Fredericton Chapter
- Creates assistive devices not available commercially through technical volunteers.
- Tetra Society - Hamilton Chapter
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- Tetra Society - Metro-Halifax Chapter
- Creates custom-made adaptations.
- Tetra Society - Nanaimo Chapter
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- Tetra Society - Penticton Chapter
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- Tetra Society - Prince Rupert Chapter
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- Tetra Society - Salt Spring Island
- Designs and makes assistive devices for people with disabilities.
- Tetra Society - Sarnia Chapter
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- Tetra Society - St. John's Chapter
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- Tetra Society - Vernon Chapter
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- Tetra Society - Windsor/Essex Chapter
- Creates small assistive devices via engineer and technologist volunteers.
- Tetra Society of Medicine Hat
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- Tetra Society of North America
- Provides voluntary technical services to people with disabilities throughout North America.
- Tetra Society of North America, Edmonton Chapter
- Dedicated to assisting people with disabilities to achieve an independent and fulfilling life in the community. Tetra recruits skilled volunteer engineers and technicians to create assistive devices for people with disabilities.
- Tetra Society of North America, Peel Chapter
- Provides assistive devices for people with disabilities, designed and built by volunteers.
- Tetra Society of Québec
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- Tetra Society of Regina
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- Tetra Victoria Society
- Creates one-of-a-kind devices for people with disabilities.
- University of Victoria Assistive Technology Team
- Dedicated to developing specialized technologies aimed at improving the lives of people with disabilities.
- W. Ross Macdonald Resource Services Library
- Provides textbooks in alternate format to students with print disabilities registered in elementary/secondary school courses or colleges, universities & approved private vocational schools.
- Your Strength - Is - Our Strength Club, Inc.
- Provides social activities for seniors and those at high risk, provides information technology to people with disabilities and seniors, and finds employment for those at risk and club members.
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