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State Organizations

Alabama

1. Seedtime and Harvest Health And Wellness Services
   Seedtime and Harvest Health And Wellness Services provides consultation, seminars, and direct occupational therapy services. Areas of expertise include home modifications, universal design, assistive technology, wheelchair accessibility issues, wellness coaching, and low vision therapy. The owner has more than 20 years experience as an occupational therapist in a variety of settings.

California

1. Able Therapy Services
   Jennifer Allen-Barker is an occupational therapist with over 20 years of practice with both pediatric and adult populations. For the last several years she has focused her continuuing education and practice on visual impairments and helping people experiencing a decline in independence due to vision loss. Her work is on an individual basis and she works both in the home and the clinic. In addition to helping people understand their diagnosis, she helps them learn to corrctly use magnification and optical devices in their daily living tasks, and she assesses the home for safety and makes safety and home adaptations to enhance a person's ability to remain independent. She also makes referrals, when needed, to other services in the area. Her services are billable to Medicare and most health insurances. Ms. Allen-Barker is also available to speak on the subject of "The Role of Occupational Therapy in Low Vision Rehab."
2. AT Network
   The AT Network is a statewide project of the California Department of Rehabilitation administered by the California Foundation for Independent Living Centers, Inc. The AT Network includes 29 independent living centers (ILCs) in California and a number of service providers and AT vendors. It is dedicated to expanding the accessibility to assistive technologies that can help increase independence, improve personal productivity, and enhance the quality of life for all Californians. Services of the AT Network include a free information and referral line, device lending libraries, low interest loans, a used device exchange, training programs, public policy analysis and advocacy on behalf of the disability community.

Kansas

1. Heartspring
   Heartspring serves children in the Wichita area with varying degrees of disabilities through Heartspring School, the Growing Place, and the Hearing Center. Heartspring also offers short-term evaluations where children from across the country can be seen by a team of professionals who will develop a customized program for implementation in their own homes and communities. They also offer pre-enrollment advocacy assistance at no charge to parents who have children with special needs that cannot be met in their public schools."

Massachusetts

1. Oak Tree Academy, Advocacy Services
   Oak Tree Academy provides parents of children with special needs training and advocacy at team meetings and mediation. Also provided are free trainings on writing IEP's, transition planning, and writing effective letters. Services are provided on a sliding fee scale.

South Carolina

1. Enable Technologies Associates, Inc.
   Our mission is to provide a unique and much needed rehabilitation engineering service to our community that is not available through any other resource. The services listed above that we provide in the South Carolina/Georgia region would be so expensive on an individual basis that few could afford them. That is why they do not exist as commercial enterprise. Our volunteers and associate companies and organizations provide these services free of charge. Our reward is the satisfaction that we receive in helping those less fortunate and the community. No members, directors, or officers of Enabletech are paid a salary or benefit materially in any way from our work. We are supported by public and private donations and grants and in kind materials and support from our associates and volunteers.

Virginia

1. Empowering Environments
   Empowering Environments specializes in home modification and care planning for seniors and others who need a higher level of care but would like to remain at home rather than moving to an assisted living facility or other institution. Founded by Certified Aging in Place Specialist Jennifer Schock Bolles, Empowering Environments will help to determine what a person needs to do to stay at home, including whole life design consultation; universal design recommendations; design for dementia; contractor and product recommendations; and project liaison with contractors. This service will also assist with planning for long term care and crisis care.