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Lends equipment, videotapes and books, including: items for people with hearing, visual or mobility impairments convalescent equipment such as wheelchairs, canes, crutches, walkers and commodes modular wheelchair rampsDoes NOT have hospital beds, but has list of places which loan/rent/sell themHas adaptive equipment catalogs.

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Agency Based Libraries/Resource Centers
Assistive Technology Information
Assistive Technology Equipment Loan

Administers programs and services to enhance employability, maximize independence, and assist in the development of the capacities and strengths of people who are legally blind. Programs include:

Equipment Loan Fund, which allows individuals to borrow up to $4,000 to purchase adaptive equipment.

Children's services for children who are legally blind, including early intervention rehabilitation, working with and empowering parents, arranging services to supplement educational activities, and ensuring a smooth transition to adult services.

Vocational rehabilitation programs for adults and youth ages 14 to 21 years, which provide a number of services, including assessment, information and referral, casework services, job coaching, orientation and mobility training, independent living skills training, and assistive technology assistance.

Independent living services for individuals who are not eligible for vocational rehabilitation services and who are not receiving services through another NYSCB Program. These services are provided based on individual need and may include orientation and mobility services, rehabilitation teaching, low vision services and devices, social casework, and adaptive equipment.

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Braille and Tactile Aids
Assistive Technology Equipment Loan
Assistive Technology Equipment Rental
Disability Rights Groups
Assistive Technology Training
Assistive Technology Information
Vocational Rehabilitation
Assistive Technology Expense Assistance
Evaluation for Assistive Technology
Blind Mobility Aids
Orientation and Mobility Training
Braille Instruction
Provides assistance with securing, learning how to use and repair, and maintaining equipment that assists individuals to live more independently at home.

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Assistive Technology Training
Assistive Technology Information
Provides a network of pediatric specialty hospitals, founded by the Shrine, where children <18yrs receive medical care regardless of ability to pay.

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Children's Hospitals
Assistive Technology Information
Burn Centers
Spinal Cord Rehabilitation
Provides services for individuals with hearing impairments including hearing aids, auditory processing evaluations, and tinnitus retraining therapy.

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Audiological Evaluations
Hearing Aids
Hearing Screening
Assistive Technology Information
Evaluation for Assistive Technology
Assistive Listening Devices
Offers an assistive technology lending library that loans out durable medical equipment to people with disabilities and their families. Inventory can be viewed at ACCESSCNY.org website.

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Electric Scooters
Speech Aids
Assistive Technology Equipment Loan
Daily Living Aids
Computer Access Aids
Transfer Devices
Blind Mobility Aids
Adapted Toys
Assistive Technology Information
Walking Aids
Standing Aids
Administers programs and services to enhance employability, maximize independence, and assist in the development of the capacities and strengths of people who are legally blind. Programs include:

Equipment Loan Fund, which allows individuals to borrow up to $4,000 to purchase adaptive equipment.

Children's services for children who are legally blind, including early intervention rehabilitation, working with and empowering parents, arranging services to supplement educational activities, and ensuring a smooth transition to adult services.

Vocational rehabilitation programs for adults and youth ages 14 to 21 years, which provide a number of services, including assessment, information and referral, casework services, job coaching, orientation and mobility training, independent living skills training, and assistive technology assistance.

Independent living services for individuals who are not eligible for vocational rehabilitation services and who are not receiving services through another NYSCB Program. These services are provided based on individual need and may include orientation and mobility services, rehabilitation teaching, low vision services and devices, social casework, and adaptive equipment.

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Vocational Rehabilitation
Assistive Technology Expense Assistance
Assistive Technology Training
Assistive Technology Information
Evaluation for Assistive Technology
Disability Rights Groups
Orientation and Mobility Training
Assistive Technology Equipment Loan
Braille Instruction
Assistive Technology Equipment Rental
To protect and advance the rights of adults and children who have disabilities so that they can freely exercise their own life choices, enforce their rights, and fully participate in their community life.

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Vocational Assessment
Assistive Technology Information
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Government Complaints/Government Ombudsman Offices
Disability Associations
Disability Related Center Based Employment

Provides services and information on available assistive technology to help fulfill vocational, education, and/or recreational goals.

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Workplace Evaluation/Modification
Assistive Technology Training
Assistive Technology Information
Computer Access Aids
AT (Assistive Technology) is an item, piece of equipment, or product system used to increase, maintain, or improve functional capabilities of individual with disabilities. Loan closet includes wide range of items, devices and equipment, such as: large-handle eating utensils, handheld video magnifier, electronic magnifying glass, computer mouse controlled by head movement.

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Medical Supplies Donation Programs
Control and Signaling Aids
Daily Living Aids
Assistive Technology Information
Assistive Technology Equipment Loan
Provides special technology for area students with physical and learning disabilities. Includes various software, courseware, and hardware to meet the multiple learning needs of people with physical, sensory, or learning limitation and disabilities.
Provides free loans of assistive technology. Assistive technology is any device that can be used to improve the functional abilities of people with disabilities or short-term injuries. Available items include wheelchairs, walkers, Rollators, canes, crutches, ramps, grab bars, Hoyer lifts, adaptive seating, shower chairs, commodes, wander alarms, weighted items, adaptive utensils, laptops, iPads and deaf and blind/low vision technology. We also have learning aids, toys and games for early intervention, as well as pediatric equipment. Free delivery may be available.

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Computer Access Aids
Ramp Construction Services
Occasional Medical Equipment / Supplies
Assistive Technology Product Demonstration Centers
Assistive Technology Support Services Expense Assistance
Mobility Aids
Assistive Technology Expense Assistance
Walking Aid Donation Programs
Speech Aids Donation Programs
Daily Living Aids
Hearing Augmentation Aid Donation Programs
Medical Supplies Donation Programs
General Medical Equipment / Supplies Provision
Assistive Technology Training
Assistive Technology Equipment Loan
Wheelchair Donation Programs
Daily Living Aid Donation Programs
Adapted Computer Equipment Donation Programs
* Provides device loans of AT (Assistive Technology), device demonstrations, AT information and referral services.

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Assistive Technology Equipment Loan
Assistive Technology Information
Assistive Technology Training
NYSCB provides rehabilitation services to children who are legally blind. Early intervention, working with and empowering parents, arranging services to supplement educational activities and ensuring a smooth transition to adult services are all key to maximizing the future independence of each child.

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Case/Care Management
Assistive Technology Expense Assistance
Activities of Daily Living Assessment
Orientation and Mobility Training
Low Vision Aids
Assistive Technology Information
SAIL provides loans of assistive technology and durable medical equipment through its TRAID/EI project. TRAID is Technological Related Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities. TRAID is the busiest department in SAIL on a daily basis. Each day dozens of people come into SAIL in Queensbury or Ballston Spa seeking to borrow medical equipment for someone who has a disabling condition.
Advises governor, legislature, and state agencies on issues facing persons with disabilities. Initiates and shapes innovative programs and identifies areas for improvement. Fosters coordination through systems advocacy and facilitates community development activities. Provides technical assistance on barrier-free design, legal rights,assistive technology to local governments, providers, families, and maintains toll-free information and referral service.

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Group Advocacy
Assistive Technology Information
Disabilities Issues
Legislative Advocacy
Provides senior outreach workers to provide information about available resources in the community, assist with benefits/insurance information and applications, serve as advocates when seniors are having problems attaining services, and friendly visiting.

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General Health Insurance Information / Counseling
Friendly Visiting
Assistive Technology Information
General Benefits Assistance
Non-Emergency Medical Transportation
Specialized Information and Referral
Offers technical assistance and assistive technology services to consumers requiring rehabilitation technology including consultants to other agencies and school districts, on-site computer evaluations/training and referral, equipment modification, product demonstration center, repair/maintenance, funding asistance, public education.

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Assistive Technology Product Demonstration Centers
Adapted Health Care Devices
Specialized Information and Referral
Assistive Technology Information
Subject Specific Public Awareness / Education
Workplace Evaluation / Modification
Blind Mobility Aids
Assists people with hearing problems by providing resources for hearing tests, adaptive equipment, and hearing aids.

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Assistive Technology Equipment
Assistive Technology Information
Services include case management, information and referral, recreation, assistive technology, respite, and outpatient rehabilitation for people with developmental disabilities.

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Adult In Home Respite Care
Assistive Technology Equipment Loan
Developmental Disabilities Day Habilitation Programs
Assistive Technology Information
Children's In Home Respite Care
Case / Care Management
Evaluates wheelchairs, tub benches, commodes, mattresses, etc. Recommends adjustments, new equipment, and the purchase of durable medical equipment.
Offers a variety of assistive technology services to children and adults with developmental and physical disabilities, including adaptive equipment that can help increase an individual with independence in many areas of life. The center offers a following:Lending Library - Adapted toys, switches, computer hardware, software, daily living aids and communication devices.Computer Lab - Fully adaptable computer stations are available for achieving educational and vocational goals.Assessment and Training - Skills are evaluated so that suitable assistive equipment can be found.
Provides speakers to present programs on hearing impairment and demonstration of relevant assistive devices other than hearing aids.

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Assistive Technology Information
Speakers / Speakers Bureaus
Provides a statewide service that connects individuals with disabilities searching for an affordable means to acquire needed devices, with people who have devices they wish to sell or donate. TRAID-IN participants advertise, at no cost, through a database containing both wanted and available items.

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Disabilities Issues
Assistive Technology Information
Developmental Disabilities
Provides technology for people with physical disabilities which includes augmentative/alternative communication to assist those who are unable to communicate via speech; computer access; environmental controls to learn new approaches to everyday tasks such as turning on household appliances; and seating and wheeled mobility which provides wheelchairs and customized seating/positioning systems. Also offers clinical evaluations, information services, inpatient and outpatient services and technology evaluations in the hospital's smart apartment, which is a model home equipped with an array of assistive technology devices,

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Mobility Aids
Assistive Technology Equipment
Assistive Technology Information
Assistive Technology Training