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Resources

Resources include the Reading Matrix and profiles of technology innovators. NCTI also offers relevant external links, along with articles, papers, presentations, and discussions.

Assistive Technology


Articles and Papers

Journals and Magazines

  • Ability Magazine promotes awareness and highlights the lives of people with disabilities.
  • AT Journal is an online publication focusing on the latest news and resources in assistive technology.  Educational resources and advocacy tools are also provided at the site.
  • Assistive Technology Outcomes and Benefits is an on-line, peer-reviewed, cross-disability, transdisciplinary journal that publishes articles related to the benefits and outcomes of assistive technology across the lifespan and helps practitioners, consumers, and family members advocate for effective assistive technology practices. Jointly published by ATIA and Special Education Assistive Technology (SEAT) Center at Illinois State University.
  • The Family Guide to Assistive Technology intends to help parents learn more about assistive technology and how it can help their children. The Guide includes tips for getting started, resources for funding, and spotlights on several case studies.
  • Journal of Special Education Technology (JSET) presents up-to-date information and opinions about issues, research, policy, and practice related to the use of technology in the field of special education.
  • Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness is an international, interdisciplinary journal of record on blindness and visual impairment that publishes scholarship and information and serves as a forum for the exchange of ideas, airing of controversies, and discussion of issues.
  • Special Education Technology Practice (SETP) features articles on both assistive and instructional technology that have a practical focus for professionals working in special education. SETP highlights applications of technology that enhance teaching, learning, and performance.
  • Speech Technology Magazine features news, independent analysis, new product announcements, special features, in-depth looks at major issues involved in implementing speech technology solutions.
  • T.H.E. Journal has served the educator community in elementary through post-secondary classrooms for over 30 years, featuring articles on learning with technology and effective mechanisms for success.
  • Technology and Disability communicates knowledge about the field of assistive technology devices and services, within the context of the lives of end users-persons with disabilities and their family members.

Web Sites

  • AbilityHub’s purpose is to help internet users find information on adaptive equipment and alternative methods available for accessing computers.
  • ABLEDATA provides information about assistive technology products and rehabilitation equipment available from domestic and international sources.
  • Adaptive Technology Resource Center Research and Development works directly with information technology manufacturers and developers to influence the early design stages of tomorrow's computer based technology.
  • The Alliance for Technology Access  is a network of community-based Resource Centers, Developers, Vendors and Associates dedicated to providing information and support services to children and adults with disabilities through public education, referrals, capacity building in community organizations, and advocacy/policy efforts.
  • Assistive Technology, Inc is a developer of hardware and software solutions for people with physical, cognitive, and speech disabilities. The website offers information on their augmentative communication devices, speech-generating devices, assessment software, and services.
  • Assistive Technology Industry Association (ATIA) fosters a mission to serve as the collective voice of the Assistive Technology industry so that the best products and services are delivered to people with disabilities.
  • Assistive Technology Outcomes Measurement System (ATOMS) is one of two assistive technology outcomes projects funded in the fall 2001 for five years by the The National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research.  The ATOMS Project targets the definition and pre-development phases of a next generation assistive technology outcomes measurement system.
  • Closing the Gap highlights hardware and software products appropriate for people with special needs, and explains how this technology is being implemented in education, rehabilitation, and vocational settings around the world.
  • Consortium for Assistive Technology Outcomes Research (CATOR)  conducts multiple research projects on assistive technology outcomes and impacts and aims to determine the effectiveness and usefulness of assistive technology and the implications for use/discontinuance of these devices.
  • Cyberkinetics, Inc. supports the creation of direct, reliable and bi-directional interfaces among the brain, nervous system and a computer.
  • Disabilities Opportunities Internetworking Technology (DOIT) serves to increase the success of people with disabilities in college and careers and provides resources for K-12 educators, students with disabilities, librarians, employers, parents and mentors.
  • Enable Mart markets, promotes, and distributes innovative technology-based products and services that promote independence, enhance productivity, and change the lives of individuals with disabilities.
  • Equal Access to Software and Information provides online training on accessible information technology for persons with disabilities through workshops and courses.
  • Federal Laboratory Consortium's Lab/Technology Search is a resource of the nationwide network of federal laboratories, providing a forum to develop strategies and publicizing opportunities for linking laboratory mission technologies and expertise with the marketplace. 
  • LD Online, a service of WETA, Washington, D.C., offers information on learning disabilities for parents, teachers, and other professionals through newsletters, first-person essays, and interviews with experts.
  • Lemelson Assistive Technology Development Center provides students with an experiential education in applied design, invention, and entrepreneurship through the use of assistive technology and universal design. The Center is a project of Hampshire College's School of Interdisciplinary Arts.
  • National Assistive Technology Research Institute (NATRI) conducts assistive technology research, translates theory and research into assistive technology practice, and provides resources for improving the delivery of assistive technology services.
  • National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) is a research and development facility dedicated to the issues of media and information technology for people with disabilities.  NCAM explores how existing access technologies may benefit other populations and provides access to educational and media technologies for special needs students.
  • Quality Indicatiors of Assistive Technology (QIAT) Consortium is a nationwide grassroots group that includes hundreds of individuals who provide input into the ongoing process of identifying, disseminating, and implementing a set of widely-applicable Quality Indicators for Assistive Technology Services in School Settings.
  • Rehabtool.com offers a variety of high-tech assistive and adaptive technology products, augmentative and alternative communication devices, computer access equipment, multilingual speech synthesis and voice recognition software.  The site specializes in computer adaptations and builds custom software solutions for children and adults with disabilities.
  • RESNA organizes annual conferences and exhibits, publishes the Assistive Technology journal, coordinates a credentialing program for assistive technology service providers, and offers professional development opportunities.
  • Tech Connections is a national information dissemination project to improve the utilization of existing and emerging technology in state vocational rehabilitation programs.
  • TechConnect, a service of the Illinois Assistive Technology Project (IATP), provides an assistive technology demonstration center, an assistive technology device loan program, a low interest cash loan program, publications, and other resources.
  • Trace Center works to encourage companies to make their standard products more accessible and usable by people with disabilities of all types. Strategies and techniques developed at the Center are sometimes patented and available via licensing through the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
  • U-LAM (Universal Language Activity Monitor) provides resources for people with severe communication disorders who rely on augmentative and alternative communication, their families and friends, professionals, educators, researchers, developers, and manufacturers.
  • W3C (The World Wide Web Consortium) contains specifications, software, and tools to lead the Web to its full potential.  Guidelines are accompanied by a forum for information, commerce, communication, and collective understanding of interoperable technologies.
  • Washington Assistive Technology Alliance (WATA) a consumer advocacy network that includes the University of Washington Center for Technology and Disability Studies (UWCTDS), and the AT Resource Center at Easter Seals Washington (EATRC).  WATA activities include information and referral, consultation, and training related to selection of AT devices, services and funding legal advice and advocacy.
  • WebABLE is a Web site for disability-related internet resources. The WebABLE site’s goal is to stimulate education, research, and development of technologies that will ensure accessibility for people with disabilities to advanced information systems and emerging technologies.
  • Wisconsin Assistive Technology Initiative (WATI) aims to ensure that every child in Wisconsin who needs assistive technology (AT) will have equal and timely access to an appropriate evaluation and the provision and implementation of any needed AT devices and services.