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Learning Disabilities and Assistive Technology

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Alva Access Group, Inc. is the USA branch of ALVA B.V. in Holland. ALVA Access Group is a sales and support organization for all ALVA products in North America. ALVA produces hardware and software that opens up the world of information technology to blind and visually impaired people. Products include refreshable braille displays, screen readers and magnifiers for graphical operating systems such as Windows, IBM OS/2 and Macintosh. Quality, tailor-made solutions and extensive user support are ALVA's hallmarks. ALVA is an international leader in access technology. 
888 318-ALVA (2582)

AlphaSmart Inc, a leading Silicon Valley education technology developer, made its initial foray into this market with the AlphaSmart in 1993. The company is dedicated to providing simple and inexpensive technology solutions to schools. 
408-252-9400 

American Association of Disabled Persons
E-mail: aadp@aol.com 

American Guidance Service (AGS) develops assessment, curriculum and test preparation products. 
800-328-2560 

American Printing House for the Blind promote the independence of blind and visually impaired persons by providing special media, tools, and materials needed for education and life. 
800-223-1839 

Applied Human Factors™, Inc. (AHF)
P.O. Box 781076
San Antonio, TX 78278
Phone: (210) 408-0098
FAX: (210) 408-0097
E-mail: sales@ahf-net.com
Website:  www.ahf-net.com

Provides Products and Services in custom computer interface software; user interfaces for the physically challenged, disabled, children, and other special populations; human factors, ergonomics, and human performance research and services; and automated educational and training systems.  

Aquarius Instructional Systems 
800-338-2644

Ashley Software produces Writer's Blocks software for writers is visual writing tool to help organize and outline written material 
800-229-6737

Assistive Media
400 Maynard St. Suite 404
Ann Arbor MI 48104-2434
Phone: 734-332-0369
E-mail: info@assistivemedia.org
Website: www.assistivemedia.org
(Provides free, copyright-approved, audio literary works to the world-wide disability community via the Internet)

Assistive Technology provides innovative solutions to help people with learning, communication, and access difficulties lead more independent and productive lives. 
800-793-9227

Aurora Systems has affordable, effective assistance for people with special needs.
888-290-1133

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Corel 
800-321-5906

Davidson 
800-545-7677

Don Johnston Incorporated is the leader in learning intervention
resources. They provide the high-quality intervention products that
struggling students and students with disabilities need to achieve
literacy. They offer reading, writing, word-study and computer access products, as well as professional development services for educating teachers on using technology in the classroom to teach reading and writing.
800-999-4660

Dragon Systems - see Lernout & Hauspie

EASI (Equal Access to Software and Information)
PO Box 818
Lake Forest CA 92609
Phone: (949) 916-2837
E-mail: info@easi.cc
Website: http://www.rit.edu/~easi/access.htm
(Provides information and guidance in the area of access-to-information technologies by individuals with disabilities; shares information about developments and advancements within the adaptive computer technology field with colleges, universities, K-12 schools, libraries and more)

Educational Resources 
800-624-2926

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Franklin Learning Resources sells electronic reference devices.
800-266-5626

Freedom Scientific Inc., incorporated in 2000, was created by the acquisition of three companies. The organization is divided into two sister groups—the Learning Systems Group and the Blindness/Low Vision Group. The Learning Systems Group can be traced to Arkenstone, a nonprofit, Silicon-Valley organization. Arkenstone developed WYNN, our flagship product, and OPENBook, a scanning-based software product for individuals with visual impairment. OPENBook is supported by the Blindness/Low Vision Group.
888-223-3344 

Hawthorne Educational Services, Inc.
800-542-1673 

Henter-Joyce 
800-336-5658

Humanware, Inc. 
916-652-7253

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Independent Living Aids is the country's oldest privately-held national mail-order distributor of aids to daily living for people who are blind or visually impaired. Its attractive catalog offers a wide variety of aids including technological items ranging from talking clocks, timers, watches and caller IDs to electronic magnification
systems and screen-reading and magnification software. ILA's aids are used by individuals with disabilities, the elderly and by students who learn basic concepts more easily with the secondary stimuli offered by our talking and large-number watches, clocks, calculators and timers. 
800-537-2118

Information Services, Inc. is a Canadian-based company. Working with the Institute on Applied Technology at Children's Hospital, Boston, ISI jointly developed WriteAway, a DOS-based software writing tool-kit designed specifically for children and adults with learning and physical disabilities. WriteAway, available for the DOS and Windows 95 Operating Systems, integrates word-processing features with word prediction, text readback, built-in scanning, and alternate keyboard-access modes. The product has been used successfully by children and adults with a wide range of disabilities. 
888-492-4925

Inspiration Software, Inc. 
503-245-9011

Institute on Applied Technology 
355-735-6998

Intelligent Peripheral Devices, Inc. 
408-252-9400 

IntelliTools is the creator, manufacturer, & distributor of high quality alternative keyboards & related products for people with disabilities. Products include the award-winning IntelliKeys ("Smart Keyboard"), Instant Access Software , Overlay Maker, ClickIt! and more. All key-boards are user-definable & provide computer access for physically, visually, mentally, or people who are learning disabled.
Intellikeys work on Apple II, IBM, &Macintosh computers & run standard commercial software or act as talking communication boards. 
800-899-6687

Interfaces 
888-881-7592

Inventures 
650-593-7590

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James Stanfield Publishing, Inc. 
800-421-6534

Jostens Learning 
800-247-1380

Kurzweil Inc. 
800-894-5374

LD Resources
Website: www.ldresources.com

Learning Company 
800-521-6263

Learning Company/School Division 
800-685-6322 

Lernout & Hauspie is the world’s leading provider of speech and language technology products, solutions, and services to businesses and individuals worldwide. Their mission is to break down language barriers through advanced translation technology and to enable people to interact by voice—in any language—with the machines that empower them.

Library Services for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
Website: http://www.loc.gov/nls/

Lighthouse, Inc 
800-829-0500

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Madenta Communications, Inc. 
800-661-8406

MathSoft, Inc. 
800-628-4223

Merit 
800-753-6488

Metroplex Voice Computing, Inc. 
817-261-1658
Website: www.mathtalk.com 

Onion Mountain Technology, Inc. 
860-693-2683
www.onionmountaintech.com 
E-mail: jsweeney@snet.net

On-Line Books
Website: www.digital.library.upenn.edu/books 

Overseas Connection 
800-274-7624

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Parrot Internet (for Parrot VoiceMate products)
Website: www.accessingenuity.com/ProductPages/parrot.htm
888-936-0001

Perfect Solutions 
800-726-7086
Website: www.perfectsolutions.com

Prentice Hall/New Horizons 
800-887-9998

Prentke Romich Company 
800-262-1984

Productivity Works, Inc. 
609-984-8044

Pro:Ed 
800-397-7633

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Renaissance Learning is the creator of the Renaissance school improvement process-the nation’s leading program for school- and districtwide academic improvement. The Renaissance process combines learning information systems (LISs) software, research, and professional development resources (such as seminars, consulting services, certification programs, and web-based training tools) to help educators dramatically accelerate learning for all students.
800-338-4204

Recorded Books Inc. 
800-638-1304

Recordings for the Blind and Dyslexic
800-803-7201 

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Scantron Quality Computers 
800-722-6876

Scholastic 
800-631-1586

See it Right! 
909-481-2950
Website: www.seeitright.com

Seiko Instrumental USA, Inc. 
877-344-4040

Skymall 
800-759-6255

SoftKey, Inc. 
800-227-5609

Southeast Disability/Business Technology Assistance Center
Website: www.sedbtac.org/ 

Special Education Technology-Readings
E-mail: ericec@cec.sped.org

Sunburst Communications 
800-321-7511

SunSound Radio 
602-231-0500

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Teacher Support Software Company
904-332-6404

Tech-Able 
770-922-6768

Telesensory 
800-421-7323

Things for Learning Inc. 
800-228-6178

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Universal Learning Technology 
508-538-0036

University of Georgia Learning Disabilities Center
Website: www.coe.uga.edu/ldcenter.htm

Untangling the Web
Website: www.icdi.wvu.edu

U. S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights
Website: www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/OCR

Waterloo Maple Software 
519-747-2373

Word Communications 
800-808-4595

Words + 
800-869-8521

Wilson Learning Corp. 
800-247-7332

W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)
Website: www.w3c.org

Xerox Imaging Systems 
800-248-6550

21st Century Eloquence 
800-245-2133

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This page last reviewed July 23, 2008