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Vermont Assistive Technology Program

AT3 Blog Feature
AT specialist Quinby McLellan submitted this blog post to the Association of Assistive Technology Act Programs (ATAP) last year, and we wanted to share! It's all about when the University of Vermont's Occupational Therapy Doctoral Program students came to visit the Waterbury Tryout Center for hands on demonstrations of different kinds of Assistive Technology.

Vermont AT Act Program’s Collaboration with the University of Vermont’s Occupational Therapy Doctoral Program

The Vermont Assistive Technology Program (VATP) continued their partnership with the University of Vermont’s inaugural doctorate program by inviting 16 second year occupational therapy students and several of their professors to our Waterbury, Vermont tryout center on October 25, 2023. Students toured the center, interacted with equipment in hands-on demonstrations, and learned about the services the assistive technology program provides for Vermonters.

The students and professors split into 2 smaller groups for the afternoon. Each group listened to an overview presentation about the assistive technology program led by director Phil Seiler and assistive technology specialist Ben Wimett and engaged in interactive stations led by assistive technology specialists Tracy Roux and Quinby McLellan.
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Image Description: an array of devices that the OT students got to use. The links in the image descriptions will bring you to our library inventory listing for the item at vt.at4all.com. 

In the upper left is the Guiding Hands by Imaginable solutions. It's an apparatus that provides dynamic arm support at the wrist, and a utensil holder that requires no grip. In this case, it's holding a pen. The user glides their hand around, supported by the device, and in this case, wrote "I can write my own name" as well as an array of scribbles.

In the upper right, is a switch adapted swirl art machine. The user presses the tiny red button in the finger isolation switch to make the paper swirl around, while someone else squeezes paint onto the surface.

In the lower right is a switch adapted scissor. The scissors have a motor in them, and are mounted to a blue ramp so that the blades are parrelel with the table. The yellow, oval shaped swithed to the right turns the scissor motor on when pressed.
The contents of this newsletter were submitted by Quinby McLellan; A.T Consultant serving Chittenden, Grand Isle, and Franklin Counties.

Contact the Vermont Assistive Technology Program by calling 1-800-750-6355 or by emailing dail.atinfo@vermont.gov. For more information visit our website (www.atp.vermont.gov). And if there is a topic that you'd like to see covered, please feel free to let us know!

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The Vermont Assistive Technology Program is part of the Vermont State Government’s Department of Disabilities, Aging, and Independent Living. The Vermont Assistive Technology Program partners with the HireAbility VT (formerly Division of Vocational Rehabilitation) as well as the University of Vermont’s Center on Disability and Community Inclusion to provide assistive technology services.
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