Products

NCTI develops a variety of products to help our stakeholders create solutions that improve the lives and academic outcomes of students with disabilities. In addition to the catalog listed here, individuals tools are listed under appropriate headings in the Trends & Topics section of the web site.

Case Studies

Get a behind the scenes look at successful partnerships in technology research and development. Find tips and advice on making collaboration work.

NCTI Technology Innovators Conference

Get information about the 2009 NCTI Technology Innovators Conference and review archived materials from our 2007 and 2008 events.

Publications

Consult this collection of scholarly articles, practitioner tools, issue briefs, and fact sheets written by NCTI for insight into the learning and assistive technology field and where it is going.

Innovator Profiles

NCTI brings you inside the mind of successful assistive technology entrepreneurs who have created innovative and successful learning tools.  These profiles show how assistive technology can be made profitable as well as inspiring.  Look for a link to the latest innovator profile on our home page or featured in QuickClicks, the NCTI electronic newsletter.

Video

NCTI has created a library of videos to inspire, inform and engage our community on challenges of common concern.  The popular “I Can Soar,” demonstrates how practitioners, service providers, and researchers face assistive technology challenges and overcome them with innovative implementation strategies.  Excerpts from speakers at our conferences offer insights on innovation, commercialization, globalization and more.  Click here to browse our catalog of videos.

We also offer a video widget that you can post on your web site or blog. Use it to share the NCTI video clip of the month, and links to related resources, with your friends and colleagues.

I Can Soar: How Technology Helps Students Take Off
This 26-minute documentary and wrap around set of resources demonstrates how practitioners, service providers, and researchers face assistive technology challenges and overcome them with innovative implementation strategies.  Read More

Databases

TechMatrix
The New and Improved TechMatrix is a powerful tool for finding educational and assistive technology products, online resources, research, and expert advice for students with special needs. New Hot Topic Pages provide users with targeted resources, professional development materials and customized searches in key topic areas. For assistive technology developers and entrepreneurs, it is a place to showcase innovative research-based tools, identify potential partners and see what competitors are doing.

Yellow Pages
NCTI’s Yellow Pages offers over 400 abstracts for contact and overview information of federally funded technology-related projects, directors, funders and vendors. Use it to look for potential partners, funders and experts who can help you develop a new product or commercialize one you have created.