Assistive Technology Evaluations

• Metro Denver: $350.00
• Boulder County: $375.00
• Metro CO Springs: $400.00
• Larimer County: $400.00
• Service only offered within Colorado.

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Helping the Disabled Community

Adaptive Technologies began offering assistive technology evaluations to help vocational rehabilitation counselors, special education teachers, colleges, and insurance case workers with their assistive technology needs in 2005. Since then, assistive technology evaluations have become our #1 service offering. With each evaluation, we review available reports by physicians and paraprofessionals; meet with clients to assess visual, physical, and cognitive access barriers; list facts and observations relevant to the client's disability, personal goals, and plans; provide detailed technology recommendations; and generate a training plan that supports the case success.

The result is an excellent-quality evaluation that makes a difference in people's lives.

The Adaptive Difference

There are three distinct advantages to Adaptive Technologies evaluations that are difficult to find elsewhere:

1. For counselors and case workers, the #1 benefit of Adaptive Technologies' evaluations is that we acquire all of the recommended products from local vendors free of charge (computer systems are the only exception). After each evaluation, counselors/customers issue authorizations to a maximum of only two vendors – the computer manufacturer and Adaptive Technologies. This simplifies the authorization/purchasing process and is a huge help for counselors who have large caseloads.
2. With every evaluation, Adaptive Technologies locates the lowest price for every recommended product. Once we've found the lowest price, we pass all of the savings to our customers. We never markup recommended products. All of our evaluation customers receive the lowest available prices on every item, typically producing hundreds of dollars in savings per case.
3. Adaptive Technologies reviews, tests, and rates products within every assistive technology category four times per year. We devote resources for this research so that our evaluation customers receive the best-quality products at the lowest possible prices. Our #1 priority at Adaptive Technologies is ensuring that our evaluation customers are taken care of. We devote significant financial resources and time to ensure that happens.

Other Benefits to Consider

In addition to the benefits outlined above counselors and case workers can expect the following benefits:

• Most organizations that offer evaluation services require the client to visit their location. This is extremely difficult or impossible for most clients. Instead of forcing this inconvenience upon clients, all Adaptive Technologies evaluations involve a personal visit to the client's home or office.
• Since we're one of the most-experienced adaptive equipment companies, we intimately know the capabilities, limitations, and weaknesses of each of the products that we recommend. We deal with these products daily! Unlike most assistive technology companies we also provide high-end electronic workflow services to professional markets and are familiar with many technologies important within the workplace. The end result is precise and relevant equipment and service recommendations for worksite, educational, and general evaluations of all types.
• At Adaptive Technologies, technology evaluations are taken very seriously. All of our evaluations follow the same sequence of steps to preserve accuracy and reliability (see below). This due diligence is important to us because it ensures that recommendations are based as much as possible on facts, observations, and test results.

Assistive Technology Evaluation Steps

1. Review reports provided by physicians and paraprofessionals (if necessary) in advance to acquire an understanding of any psychological or behavioral access barriers before meeting with the client.
2. Meet with the client to assess limitations and concerns specifically associated with their disability. Also assess the client's accommodations and the condition of relevant equipment. If equipment is in poor working condition, determine the cause of the problem and potential solutions.
3. Assess the client's overall knowledge and comfort level with assistive technology, and identify training that would help the client realize personal and professional goals.
4. Determine which technologies are practical, affordable, and appropriate for the client's situation, paying special attention to quality and affordability.
5. Devise a training plan specifically designed for the client's disability, knowledge level, and psychological/cognitive access barriers.
6. Write the evaluation report, locate the lowest possible prices for each recommended item, and pass all savings on to the evaluation customer.