Assistive Technology
Assistive Technology is devices and services to help people with disabilities increase their independence.
Several resources are available for finding and funding assistive technology. AgrAbility can help navigate these programs, assist clients through the eligibility proceess, provide agricultural specific advice, assessments and recommendations to ensure farmers and ranchers receive the assistance for which they are eligible. AgrAbility can also do "in-house" and custom built assistive technology and modifications where appropriate.
In house projects:
Farmers get on and off their tractors all day long some times. The first step on a tractor is often between two and a half and three feet high. Adding a step is a common and simple modification, but saves the farmer from straining shoulders, hips and knees as he/she gets on and off the tractor, and reduces the likelihood of falling.
- Assists eligible individuals in obtaining employment and increasing their independence.
- Contains hundreds of ideas, modified equipment and solutions for making big and small jobs on the farm easier.
- Houses several programs which help individuals throughout the state acquire, maintain and afford assistive technology devices.
- Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) are matched savings accounts that enable lower-income families to build assets and develop skills for financial self-sufficiency. UIDAN creates new cycles of prosperity by providing a 3-to-1 match on the monthly savings of lower-income working families who are trying to buy their first home, pay for post-secondary education, start a small business, or purchase an assistive technology device for work related activities.
- U.C.A.T. is the statewide resource for Assistive Technology information, equipment review, assessment and modification, and the exploration of assistive technology funding options. Our Visions and Values can be summed up with six words: Teamwork, Innovation, Expertise, Excellence, Respect, and Accountability.
- Are non-residential, community based, disability organizations. Their mission is to serve all disabled persons within each individual's own community. They maintain that all individuals regardless of disability, have the right and responsibility to make their own choices, to live independently as possible in the community, and to participate as full and equal citizens in their community and in society. This mission is promoted through advocacy, services and education. To find a CIL close to you, click on the link above.