“I think AI is a really big opportunity for the world of disabilities,” says Seaver Stafford. Stafford, an Assistive Technology Technician for the Neil Squire Society, manages the AT Help Desk website and connects people with disabilities with assistive technology information. The AT website is part of the AT Help Desk program that launched in 2013. It aims to provide the most up-to-date assistive technology (AT) tools to reduce the employment gap for persons with disabilities and increase access to education. “Sometimes we’re trying to fix multiple issues and having the resources to make that happen isn’t always easy to do,” Stafford says. “I think that our knowledge of AI to provide unique solutions to people that have unique disabilities is a way that we can work around limited resources and still help.”

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