Assistive Technology Equipment

Dedicated to giving the gifts of hearing and speech; providing medical and surgical treatment, hearing technologies, speech and hearing rehabilitation, and educational support.

• Hearing Aids

Provides financial aid to people who suffer deafness or hearing impairment and who need assistance in obtaining mechanical devices, medical or specialized treatment or specialized education as well as speech classes, note takers, interpreters, etc. and in other areas of need that are directly related to hearing impairment.

Quarterly review of applications

• Hearing Aids
• Braille and Tactile Aids
• Sign Language Instruction
• Audiological Evaluations
• Special Education
• Developmental Assessment

Innovative neuroscience-based music programs. Helps children and adults improve their focus, learning, listening and communication skills.

• Books & Music
• Learning Software
• Sleep Products
• Audio Equipment

Inclusive and adaptive resources for sport, recreation, special needs. Adapted PE, daily living, clinical furniture, learning and development, motor skills, positioning and mobility, recreation, and sensory space design.

Ability 1st Utah provides services to individuals with disabilities including advocacy, independent living skills training, youth transition and nursing home/institution transition, peer support, information and referral services, community integration recreational activities, assistive technology equipment services, limited transportation, and Ticket to Work program.

COVID-19 UPDATE: Available via phone or email.

• Advocacy
• Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
• Aging and Disability Resource Centers
• Assistive Technology Equipment Loan
• Assistive Technology Equipment Listing Services
• Independent Living Skills Instruction
• Disability Related Center Based Employment
• Specialized Information and Referral
• Peer to Peer Networking
• Nursing Home Transition Financing Programs
• Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs

Also an Ability First-Ephraim Satellite office

Offers free communication equipment for those who qualify (telephone and/or iPad), in-person assistance and voice recognition technology to quickly provide written captions of what callers say on a large, easy-to-read screen for hearing impaired individuals.

• Specialized Telecommunications Equipment

Harmony Music Therapy provides music therapy services to children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities and mental health impairments.

• Music Instruction
• Adapted Musical Instruments
• Music Therapy

Jaycie Voorhees, Director, MT-BC (Music Therapist - Board Certified)

30 minute private session $55, 45 minute private session $70, $300 scholarships available.

Statewide resource offering information, technical assistance, adaptive services and a Computer Center to help people with disabilities acquire and use assistive technology devices. Offers free evaluations to anyone within the state of Utah. 

• Assistive Technology Equipment Loan
• Assistive Technology Equipment Custom Design/Fabrication
• Assistive Technology Information
• Automobile/Van Adaptations

For children ages 1-5 Go Baby Go Program adapts kids' electric cars for children with disabilities, at minimal to no cost. Other equipment includes a bath chair, a pediatric walker, and a scoot and floor sitter.

For a free consultation with UCAT, please fill out the form on the website and email it to ucat@utah.gov.

Makes mobility bikes and devices for people with special needs.

A membership program that provides police, fire/rescue, and other first responders with a comprehensive program including education, equipment, and training to quickly locate and rescue 'at risk' individuals with cognitive disorders who are at constant risk to the life threatening behavior of wandering; including those with Alzheimer's disease, autism, and Down syndrome. Citizens enrolled in Project Lifesaver wear a small personal transmitter around the wrist or ankle that emits an individualized tracking signal. If an enrolled client goes missing, the caregiver notifies their local Project Lifesaver agency, and a trained emergency team responds to the wanderer's area.

• Locator Aids
• Emergency Rescue

Relay Utah is a free, state program managed by the Public Service Commission that provides hearing assistive phones and cell phone amplifiers to hard of hearing and deaf individuals. Amplified, captioning, and other hearing assistive phones and technologies are available as everyone's hearing loss is different. Hearing assistive phones are provided to any hard of hearing or deaf Utahan whose income qualifies. Most people who already qualify for public assistance programs are eligible. The agency operates a demo center that is free to the public to try the phones. It is open by appointment Monday through Friday. Please call in advance. The 7-1-1 state and nationwide telephone number connects standard (voice) telephone users with deaf, hard of hearing and speech challenged individuals that use specialized relay equipment. By dialing 7-1-1 you will be connected you to the person you are trying to reach and relay your message to the deaf/hard of hearing/speech disabled person and then relay their response.

• Specialized Telecommunications Equipment
• Telecommunication Relay Services

M - F Demo center by appointment, please call ahead.

• Music Therapy
• Adapted Musical Instruments
• Childbirth Education
• Music Instruction

Provides consultation, resources, and direct educational services to children with hearing and/or visual impairment and their families.

COVID-19 UPDATE: School dismissal is continued through the end of the school year.

• Hearing Aids
• Audiological Evaluations
• Special Education
• Developmental Assessment
• Braille and Tactile Aids