The Idaho Assistive Technology Project has developed a variety of products that provide specific information about assistive technology devices and service options available to persons with disabilities, their families and service providers. Our handbooks are packed with information identifying agencies, supportive services, funding options and resources pertaining to assistive technology. Three handbooks are available for a small shipping fee (out-of-state) or free of charge (in-state):

Assistive Technology for Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities
Assistive Technology for School Age Children with Disabilities
Assistive Technology for Older Persons
Assistive Technology for Parents with Disabilities

Fact sheets and videos are also available. Fact sheet topics range from "Funding Assistive Technology" to "Organizations for the Hearing Impaired" and may be printed directly from the web. IATP videos provide overviews of the many services available through the project and may be ordered directly from the web by visiting the "Video" page. A listing of catalog companies' phone numbers are also listed for assistance in locating devices. Most companies will gladly send a free catalog upon request.

You can also view past and current copies of our newsletter, Spud Tech Notes, by clicking on the copy you would like to read on the left in the Website Navigation area under Spud Tech Newsletters.

If you have any questions regarding our products, please do not hesitate to call us.
Phone Number 1-800-432-8324
E-mail us at: sueh@uidaho.edu

A Special Thanks...The Idaho Assistive Technology Project would like to give special thanks and appreciation to Martha Perske for the use of her exceptional illustrations from the book:

PERSKE PENCIL PORTRAITS 1971 - 1990

Illustrated by Martha Perske with an Introduction by Robert Perske
ISBN 0-687-05080-4
Published by Abingdon Press

This a wonderful collection of artwork created by Martha Perske, with an introduction by Robert Perske. It is a compilation of drawings that are featured in their other works and depicts people with disabilities and those without disabilities. The Perske drawings come alive on the page. Martha Perske has an uncanny ability to capture a person’s twinkle in the eye or show the friendship between two people with different abilities

ROBERT PERSKE is widely known for his work on behalf of people with disabilities. In 1968 he received a Rosemary Dybwad International Award, allowing him to study attitudes toward people with disabilities throughout Sweden and Denmark. In 1987 he and Martha shared the Healing Community Arts & Letters Award at the United Nations in New York. The Perskes have collaborated on two major reports to U.S. presidents: Mental Retardation: The Leading Edge, for President Carter; and, in cooperation with others, Mental Retardation: Century of Decision, for President Nixon.

MARTHA PERSKE is a renowned freelance illustrator whose realistic artwork was selected by the U.S. Postal Service for a 1981 stamp commemorating the International Year of Disabled Persons. Several of her illustrations appeared in Marlo Thomas' best seller Free to Be . . . A Family. Most of the illustrations were drawn from photographs of the actual people.

OTHER PERSKE BOOKS FROM ABINGDON PRESS:

Circle of Friends (illustrated by Martha Perske)
Hope for the Families (illustrated by Martha Perske)
New Life in the Neighborhood (illustrated by Martha Perske)
Don't Stop the Music
Show Me No Mercy

Unequal Justice?

Deadly Innocence?