6.811: Principles and Practice of Assistive Technology

Seeking clients with disabilities to help create customized assistive technology

In an MIT class on Principles and Practices of Assistive Technology (PPAT/6.811/HST.420/2.78), clients with disabilities join teams engineering students to create customized assistive technology solutions. We are looking for clients with specific project ideas for our class the upcoming fall 2017 semester.

We hope to find sixteen adventurous individuals who face daily life challenges related to their disability. Potential clients must:

• Have one or more specific project ideas in mind;
• Be based in Cambridge, MA or nearby;
• Be easily accessible via phone or email;
• Be available to meet in-person with students for approximately one hour every week from mid-September through early December;
• Be open to new experiences and willing to give active feedback to the students.

Previous client projects have included:

If you are interested in participating as a client, please complete this brief application.

Applications will be considered on rolling basis until August 7, 2017. Due to the number of applications received, we regret that we can only respond to individuals with project ideas that pass an initial screening. If your project idea advances to that stage, we will be in touch to answer your questions and confirm mutual interest.