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Recent Blog Posts

Cheap or Free Cellphone Adaptations for People with Disabilities! Part 3 Physical Access
August 9, 2018
Over the past 5 years, we have written about many technologies that can help people with disabilities use a cellphone independently. In the coming months, we thought we would bring it all together for you, to eventually create a reference guide for cellphone assistive technology. In the last post, w...
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Back to School: Lock it Up!
August 3, 2018
It’s time to think about going back to school. There are the typical supplies needed: pencils, paper, calculators, binders, homework folders, etc. If a student is entering junior high, there are many other things to consider: use of lockers, changing of classes, and implementation of new rules. W...
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Cheap or Free Cell Phone Adaptions for People with Disabilities! Part 2 Vision
July 30, 2018
In the upcoming weeks we will continue our series in the area of assistive technology (AT) and adaptions for smart phones and basic cell phones for people with disabilities in the areas of physical, speech, hearing, vision or cognition. Last week in Part 1 we discussed accommodations for speech. In...
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Back to School – 4 Week Countdown
July 23, 2018
It’s crazy to think that school is starting so soon; already we see all the stores with their Back to School Supplies Sales and Supply Lists. So basically in a month, many schools in North Dakota will be in full swing. I came across a website of a nonprofit organization, Understood, that looks inte...
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Success Stories

“Assistive literally helped save my mother’s life, or at least kept her out of the hospital. Mom was taking lots of different medications and after ending up in the hospital a couple of times from mixing up medications, an AT consultant from Assistive recommended a locked, alarmed pill dispenser machine. It worked! We loaded the […]

Carol A.

Assistive Board Member

“I had thought that ND Assistive was a place just for renting out equipment but, Trish began helping me to get several different types of adaptive technology to help me in my home. I received an alarm that vibrates on my bed to wake me up in case the fire alarm went off, my phone […]

Shirley R.

“For everything you’ve done…for being the special people that you are…thank you so very much. Thank you for my lift chair, it has made my life easier and independent. I enjoy resting in it every day. May God truly bless you for your kindness and generosity.”

Esther R.

92 years old

Recent Blog Posts

Cheap or Free Cellphone Adaptations for People with Disabilities! Part 3 Physical Access

Back to School: Lock it Up!

Cheap or Free Cell Phone Adaptions for People with Disabilities! Part 2 Vision

Back to School – 4 Week Countdown

Success Stories

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