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Provides information, demonstration, training, and loan of assistive technologies for persons with disabilities.
Services
Assistive Technology Information
Assistive Technology Equipment Loan
- Advocates for the civil rights of individuals with disabilities.
- Coordinates public disability awareness activities including presentations to community groups.
- Assists individuals with hearing and speech disabilities access communication needs.
- Assists with independent living skills training (money management, assertiveness training, self-advocacy, etc.).
- Provides information and referral services.
- Provides peer mentoring for individual and group settings.
- Provides transition services such as moving qualified individuals from nursing facilities or other institutions to independent living.
- Assists youth with disabilities transition from high school to adult life.
- Provides personal assistant services.
- Operates a Community Advocacy Training program for youth and adults.
- Assists individuals with vision loss or blindness acquire assistive devices and skills training.
- Operates a medical equipment loan program.
- Provides mentoring for parents of youth with disabilities.
- Operates an ITAC amplified phone selection center.
Services
Centers for Independent Living
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Assistive Technology Equipment Loan
Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
General Medical Equipment/Supplies Provision
Advocacy
Transition Services for Students With Disabilities
Short term (6 weeks) assistive device loan program.
Services
Assistive Technology Equipment Loan
- Advocates for the civil rights of individuals with disabilities.
- Coordinates public disability awareness activities including presentations to community groups.
- Assists individuals with hearing and speech disabilities access communication needs.
- Assists with independent living skills training (money management, assertiveness training, self-advocacy, etc.).
- Provides information and referral services.
- Provides peer mentoring for individual and group settings.
- Provides transition services such as moving qualified individuals from nursing facilities or other institutions to independent living.
- Assists youth with disabilities transition from high school to adult life.
- Provides personal assistant services.
- Operates a Community Advocacy Training program for youth and adults.
- Assists individuals with vision loss or blindness acquire assistive devices and skills training.
- Operates a medical equipment loan program.
- Provides mentoring for parents of youth with disabilities.
- Operates an ITAC amplified phone selection center.
Services
Centers for Independent Living
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Assistive Technology Equipment Loan
Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
General Medical Equipment/Supplies Provision
Advocacy
Transition Services for Students With Disabilities
Frisbie Senior Center provides 65 open programs for seniors in Chicago's Northwest Suburban. Programs include day trips, a fitness center, a medical closet, and facility rentals.
Services
Senior Centers
Field Trips/Excursions
Assistive Technology Equipment Loan
Athletic Clubs