• The Wheelchair Series: What the Spinal Cord Injury Consumer Needs to Know: Becoming a wheelchair expert increases your ability to get a wheelchair that truly meets your needs. While it is not possible or a single handout to teach all there is to know, topics covered by the Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center on Getting the Right Wheelchair, The Manual Wheelchair and The Power Wheelchair include key information that can support your ongoing development of wheelchair knowledge.
• AbleNet: A world leader in assistive technology, curriculum, and services to help individuals with disabilities lead productive and fulfilling lives.
• Adaptive Cooking Tools: Accessible Chef was able to test out adaptive cooking tools.  Resources are divided into tools that make the physical aspects of cooking easier, tools that are safer for those with disabilities to operate, and tools that assist with the cognitive skills necessary for cooking.
• Dinning With Dignity: Dining with Dignity offers specialty adaptive silverware & cutlery for disabled people with grip impairments.
• Level the Curve: At Level the Curve, we aim to make everyday life easier for people by creating products that adapt to the customers’ needs and wants, and at a low price. The result is a consumer-oriented approach which caters specifically to, as our name suggests, “leveling the curve” as well as the “playing field” for the persons with disabilities.
• LiftWare: Liftware’s selection of stabilizing and leveling handles and attachments are designed to help people with hand tremor or limited hand and arm mobility retain dignity, confidence, and independence.
• Kitchen & Dining Aids: Make your mealtimes easy, independent and fun with the perfect set of Ability Superstore kitchen mobility aids.
• Triumph Foundation: A non-profit organization whose mission is to help individuals with Spinal Cord Injury triumph over their disability and to inspire them to keep moving forward with their lives by pushing themselves to get better every day. Their Grants helps individuals get necessary Adaptive Equipment for activities of daily living, make Home Modifications for wheelchair accessibility, enable the Return to Work reintegrating back into the community, and maintain Therapeutic Activities for health and wellness.
• Freshtte: A revolutionary urinary device (also known as a pee funnel) that offers a convenient solution anytime getting to a restroom is a challenge.
• Getting Back Up: Provide qualified and selected individuals with funding for participation in exercise-based recovery programs and the purchase of adaptable products. These programs and products have been proven to greatly improve the physical and emotional well-being of the injured individual.
• Center for Assistive Technology: The Center for Assistive Technology (CAT) provides information and referral services on assistive technology to people in the Western New York Region including a top and equipment lending center for families in early intervention programs, child care centers, family child care homes, and early intervention service providers.
• Makoa: Has a comprehensive listing of products, services, and resources to make computing accessible to people with disabilities.
• Center for Universal Design: Part of the College of Design at North Carolina State University, CUD strives to provide research, education and services related to accessible design across all environments including housing, buildings, and outdoors. Here you’ll find information on the most useful design solutions, as well as technical assistance in constructing accessibility improvements to your home.
• Friends of Disabled Adults & Children: FODAC’s mission is to provide durable medical equipment (DME) such as wheelchairs and hospital beds at little or no cost to the disabled and their families. We seek to enhance the quality of life for people of all ages who have any type of illness or physical disability.
• IM Able Foundation – Adaptive Equipment Grants: IM ABLE Grants are awarded to disabled individuals, providing hand-cycles and other adaptive athletic gear, as well as instructional training programs for those in need. Our purpose is to unleash the potential in physically challenged children and adults to be more active, enjoy the benefits of physical fitness, and spend more time in the great outdoors
• Sportaid: Sportaid is not just another catalog/internet provider on adapted equipment.
• Allegro Medical: One of the largest and most online supplier for health care products and supplies.
• HandiHelp.net: Handihelp.net is a website that contains simple ideas and tools that are either inexpensive to purchase or cost little to make. Hopefully, these suggestions will help persons with physical challenges in overcoming some of the frustrations they face and enable them to live a more active life. Explore Handi Products for a select group of commercially available products that may be of help to you.
• ScootAround: Offers scooter and wheelchair rentals in dozens of North American destinations.
• 14 Awesome Types of Adaptive Feeding Equipment

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