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Assisting Consumers Through Technology (ACTT)
Southwest Center for Independent Living (SCIL) ACTT: Assisting Consumers Through Technology program provides Assistive Technology (AT) devices and services to assist people with disabilities in increase, maintain or improve functional capabilities to living independently and therefore their health and wellness.
Assistive Technology or AT devices equates to any item, piece of equipment or product system, whether acquired commercially off the shelf, modified or customized.
AT Services include evaluating need, selecting, purchasing, donating or otherwise providing for the acquisition of the AT devices as well as training or technical assistance for the person with a disability.
Using Assistive Technology to Increase Independence
ACTT offers demonstration and donation of AT from many categories to assist people with multiple types of disabilities increase their independence and safety: hard of hearing or deaf, low vision or blind, mobility devices including grooming and kitchen aids, recreational equipment, and durable medical equipment.
ACTT Demonstration Center
ACTT's Demonstration Center houses a variety of Assistive Technology (AT) and welcomes appointments to view and experiment with items. Please call or email SCIL for an appointment at the main office in Springfield.
AT Devices Available for Deomnstartion Include:
Hard of Hearing or Deaf
- Smoke detectors, doorbell or baby cry signalers, bed shaker alarm clocks or personal amplifiers, TV ears
Low-Vision or Blind
- Magnifiers, talking watch & clock, writing guides, CCTV, magnification software for the computer, and the Wolfner Library digital reader
Mobility Disabilities
- Dressing, bathing and grooming aids, shower chairs, transfer benches, toilet risers, bedside commodes,
- Aids for daily living such as key turners, writing, medication, or kitchen aids, emergency dialers, reachers
Device Recycling and Exchange
The ACTT Program accepts donations of durable medical equipment in good working condition. We loan and donate this equipment to people with disabilities with no other means of obtaining this equipment.
Items include:
- manual wheelchairs
- four wheeled walkers
- two wheeled walkers
- standard folding walkers
- quad canes
- straight canes
If you have this equipment, then consider donating to SCIL as a charitable donation.
ACTT loans and donates equipment when available, to people with no other means of acquiring it.
Please call or email SCIL for an appointment at the main office in Springfield.
Missouri Assistive Technology’s (MoAT) Swap n Shop
If you have equipment you would like to sell or want to buy such as modified vehicles, bath lifts and specialized power chairs, etc., but don’t know where to advertise or find it at; then MoAT Swap n Shop may be able to help with their “classified ads” service.
MoAT Contact: 1-800-647-8557
Website: http://www.at.mo.gov/swapnshop/swapnshop.html
Missouri Telecommunications Access Program or TAP
ACTT provides telephone demonstrations for the Missouri Telecommunications Access or TAP program, which provides free adaptive telephones for people who cannot use a traditional phone due to a disability, such as hearing loss, vision loss, and memory loss or mobility limitations. ACTT staff can assist in trying different phones to determine the best option and completing the state TAP application.
Missouri offers the Internet or TAP-I program, which provides free adaptive computer equipment (hardware and software) to people whose disability prevents them from accessing information on the internet. Equipment includes magnification software, adaptive keyboards and pointing devices, and speech recognition software.
Please call or email SCIL for an appointment at the main office in Springfield.
