We use technology, knowledge and passion to empower Canadians with disabilities.
Skip to Navigation
The students at Templeton Secondary School鈥檚 STEM program had a hefty task at hand. First, they needed to figure out how to switch adapt a toy, taking it apart and modifying it so that a child with a disability could more easily play with it using an adaptive switch. Then, they needed to make instructions to help future makers adapt that same toy.
For one patient at Foothills Medical Centre, Adaptive Gaming is not just for entertainment, it’s used for physiotherapy. CTV Calgary made a great report on our Makers Making Change program’s GAME Checkpoint initiative.+
鈥淚 can honestly say I would not be able to work as efficiently as I can now without the LipSync. I haven鈥檛 found anything that works even close to the LipSync, allowing me to not only work, but connect with my peers and community virtually,鈥 Ean says.
We鈥檝e had the honour of hosting a number of successful Adaptive Gaming events with Cerebral Palsy Alberta over the past year.
As part of our #HackingForTheHolidays campaign, Neil Squire鈥檚 Makers Making Change program donated over 20 assistive devices to the Early Childhood Intervention Program (ECIP) Regina Region.