This post is sponsored by Enabling Devices
Getting custom assistive devices is a powerful way to support students with disabilities. They help foster independence, hone skills, and let these kids be fully included in classroom activities. If you’re interested in investing in some for your school, here are four places that offer the best technologies for special education.
Enabling Devices
Enabling Devices is a family-run company that has been providing assistive devices to people with disabilities worldwide since 1978. Its classroom kits include assistive learning devices that make it easier for teachers to help students with visual or speech impairments, sensory processing disorders, autism, ADHD, or cerebral palsy. If you want to buy custom assistive technology devices for your school, you can use the company’s Quotes feature to create a free, detailed estimate.
Key Features
- Wide selection of adaptive toys and devices
- Made-in-America toys and devices
- Free customizable order quote
- Customized assistive technology
- Sensory room design services
Functionalhand
While Functionalhand only has a single product under its belt, it’s one that can prove essential to students with hand weakness, disabilities and impairments. The Functionalhand lets people grip small and large objects vertically and horizontally. It promotes independence, as it makes it easier for students with motor impairments to do activities that require increased dexterity.
Key Features
- Specially designed for people with motor impairments
- Invented by an occupational and physical therapist
- Has several distributors in America, Australia, Germany, and the U.K.
AbleNet
AbleNet has been helping people with disabilities reach their potential since 1985. It now offers a wide range of assistive technologies, from speech devices and adaptive switches to activity supports and apps. The company proudly offers products that have passed rigorous durability tests. That means you can buy its custom devices for your school without worrying about students breaking them when they accidentally drop them.
Key Features
- Highly durable assistive devices
- Items comply with Europe’s medical device regulation requirements
- Free order quote
Inclusive TLC
Inclusive TLC offers both physical and virtual assistive technology devices for students with disabilities. You can schedule a virtual visit with Inclusive TLC if you want to learn more about how an adaptive item or software can support your students. Its team will answer all your questions and provide free demonstrations.
Key Features
- Wide selection of assistive devices
- Specialized software programs
- Free virtual visits for product and software demos
How Can I Buy Custom Assistive Technology Devices for My School?
How to buy the devices depends on where you’re getting them from. This table contains each brand’s key features and assistive devices that would benefit your students.
| Brand | Location | Assistive Devices for Students |
| Enabling Devices | Hawthorne, New York | – Classroom kits – Adapted toys and games – Communicators – Sensory products – Adapted electronics |
| Functionalhand | Elmhurst, Illinois | – Functionalhand |
| AbleNet | Roseville, Minnesota | – Speech devices – Computer and tablet access – Activity supports – Apps |
| Inclusive TLC | Waxhaw, North Carolina | – Communicators – Alternative access devices |
Support Your Students With Assistive Technology
Schools should be safe spaces for students to learn and grow as individuals. Investing in custom assistive technology devices for classrooms will go a long way in supporting children with disabilities and helping them explore their potential.
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