Evaluation/Assessment

A professional will do an evaluation of equipment or assistive technology to help match your skills/abilities, need, and use of technology. This is important to make sure you get the technology that will really be assistive and will cause harm to you. In many cases funding depends on a written referral and detailed assessment. Evaluation/Assessment is an important set in development of a funding strategy for obtaining Assistive Technology (See Step 2 of the Funding Strategy for more information). A professional evaluation should include consideration of a variety of products from different vendors. Follow-up training should also be a consideration during this process. For more information about evaluation/assessment, please see the article “How to Get a Good Assessment”.

There are several specific national directories you can try, or skip down to the search criteria below:

• Rehabilitation Enginering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA) find a Certified AT Specialist
• Michigan Optometric Association Find a Low Vision Specialist
• Connect with Certified Audiologists and Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) More than 15,000 programs who employ audiologists and SLPs who hold American Speech-Language-Hearing Association's (ASHA)'s Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC) are listed.

There are other directories on the web with useful information. If you find one with great information, please let us know! 

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