Assistive Technology (AT) Xchange
Welcome to AT Xchange a new Michigan-based website where people can buy, sell or give away assistive technology (AT).

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Challenge Mountain
Phone: (231) 535-2141
A 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to helping the physically impaired, mentally challenged, and at risk youth achieve their maximum potential through outdoor therapeutic recreation.

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Communities of Power
Phone: (800) 760-4600
Communities of Power is a source of information about issues of importance in Michigan’s Disability Community

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Don’t Just Sit There Foundation
Phone: (248) 792-2293
The Scholarship Fund for Spinal Cord Injury Recovery, with the help of the Pioneers for Peace, selects individuals with spinal cord injuries from violence who are committed to their recovery and their community. Recipients train at the Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan’s Center for SCI Recovery (CSCIR), three days per week/three hours per day, for up to one year.

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Grand Rapids Wheelchair Sports Association
Phone: (616) 242-0351
The Grand Rapids Wheelchair Sports Association (GRWSA) is a nonprofit organization designed to help children and adults whose various physical challenges require them to use a wheelchair to play competitive and recreational sports. Over the years, the GRWSA has helped thousands of youths and adults participate in nearly every sport imaginable – from rock climbing to water-skiing and much more.

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Michigan ADAPT
Phone: (616) 656-0356
Contact: Clark Goodrich
We are fighting so people with disabilities can live in the community with real supports instead of being locked away in nursing homes and other institutions.

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Michigan AgrAbility
Phone: (800) 956-4106
Michigan AgrAbility helps people with disabilities employed in agriculture continue to farm and live independently.

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Michigan Alliance for Families
Phone: (800) 552-4821
Michigan Alliance for Families provides information, support and education to families of children and adults with disabilities from birth to age 26 who are in the educational system.

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Michigan Directory of Service Providers for Infants, Toddlers, and Students with Disabilities
The Michigan Directory of Service Providers for Infants, Toddlers, and Students with Disabilities is intended for parents, educators, and other service providers seeking resource information related to the educational needs of children, students, and clients.

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Michigan Disability Rights Coalition (MDRC)
Phone: (517) 333-2477
MDRC is a state-wide network of individuals and organizations that advances the issues of Michigan’s disability community through grassroots activism, public education and advocacy.

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Michigan Protection and Advocacy Service
Phone: (800) 288-5923
People with disabilities have to deal with a wide variety of issues. We try to answer any questions you may have relating to disability. We have experience in the following areas: discrimination in education, employment, housing, and public places; abuse and neglect; Social Security benefits; Medicaid, Medicare and other insurance; housing; Vocational Rehabilitation; HIV/AIDS issues; and many other disability-related topics.

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Michigan Telework Loan Fund
Phone: (800) 828-2714
The Michigan Disability Rights Coalition (MDRC) has established the TeleWork Loan Fund to help people with disabilities purchase equipment needed to work for an employer, or become self-employed, from home or at a telework center.

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Pioneers for Peace
Phone: (313) 745-5053
The Pioneers for Peace program is an innovative violence prevention and awareness program. Pioneers for Peace members are all survivors of violence who have sustained a spinal cord injury, brain injury or another type of traumatic injury that resulted in a permanent disability. Each member views her or his disability not as a tragedy but rather as an opportunity to make a difference by becoming an advocate for violence prevention.

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Stair Lifts
Offers consumers impartial advice about stairlifts.

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Trust Fund for Children with Special Needs
Phone: (517) 241-7420
The Trust Fund helps pay for services and projects for children with special health care needs not provided by other health care funds. The Fund helps with the purchase of equipment and services that promote optimal health, mobility, and development, enhancing the lives of children and their families.

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Wheelchair Hockey League (WCHL)
Phone: (519) 250-7274
Contact: Commissioner Chris Lemieux
The purpose of this league is to provide an appropriate means for persons in wheelchairs to have the opportunity to play hockey, and have the chance to engage in the competition and excitement of the sport. Our League includes players in manual and electric wheelchairs.

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Michigan Spinal Cord Injury Association

Create your Like Badge

Centers for Independent Living

CARF-accredited rehab facilities

Model SCI Systems of Care

State Disability Services

Links

Understanding Spinal Cord Injury

Michigan Sports Unlimited

The National Spinal Cord Injury Association (NSCIA)

The Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation

The Mike Utley Foundation

The Paralyzed Veterans of America: Michigan Chapter

The Paralyzed Veterans of America

United States Department of Veterans Affairs

Michigan Disability Rights Coalition

Disability Network of Michigan

Henry Ford Health System

Michigan Commission on Disability Concerns

Michigan Rehabilitation Services

National Multiple Sclerosis Society

University of Michigan, Dept. of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Wayne State University Developmental Disabilities Institute

UAB Spinal Cord Injury Model System (UAB-SCIMS)

Argo Medical Technologies Ltd (Re-Walk)

Carecure Community

International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (ICORD)

in particular: http://icord.org/documents/iccp-clinical-trials-information/

International Society for Stem Cell Research

in particular: http://www.isscr.org/clinical_trans/patient_handbook.html

Alternative Therapies for Spinal Cord Injury

Clinical Trials – National Institutes of Health

National Library of Medicine – National Institutes of Health

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke – National Institutes of Health

SCI Information Pages

Spinal Cord Injury Peer Support

The Spinal Cord Injury Zone

Paralinks – Wheelchair Nation

The Disability Rag

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Our online resources and recommended websites are only a portion of what the MSCIA can offer you.  For access to our Membership Directory, which includes fellow non-profit organizations, hospitals, corporations, physicians, rehabilitation facilities and other contacts all conveniently located throughout the state of Michigan, please consider signing up as a member.  You will have immediate admittance to our expansive list of contacts and resources that are all readily available to you at the click of a button.