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“We brainstormed what my needs were and what I’d like to try out. And the beauty of this is I can try things out without breaking the bank,” Sarah says. “Living on a pension limits my ability to experiment with expensive things.”
“I have been provided with a tool so that I do not have to ask someone every single day so I can have my tea or water,” Marie says. “It may seem like a small thing, but it’s a huge gift. You won’t understand until you need it.”
This year, the GF Strong Rehabilitation Centre joined Makers Making Change’s network of GAME Checkpoints, helping people with disabilities access Adaptive Gaming.
As an occupational therapist working in schools in Summerside, PEI, Anne-Marie Peters has a lot of experience with adaptive switches, and helping the children she works with to use them. So, when a colleague told her about a Makers Making Change event in nearby Charlottetown where she could be making her own switches, her interest was piqued.
Neil Squire has received funding from the Government of Canada’s Accessible Technology Program to develop and release at least four cost-effective, customizable joystick-based alternative input devices through its Makers Making Change program.