AdaptWorld

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COMPANY INFORMATION RELEASE ....................(7/28/00) Academic Software, Incorporated, (ASI) is a small Kentucky-based educational research, development, and consulting firm well into its 17th year as a corporation headquartered in Lexington. ASI specializes in the field of assistive technology and computer access for children and adults with disabilities and for health professionals who work with people with disabilities. The company employs a permanent staff of four professionals (educational psychologists, assistive technology specialists, programmers, graphic artists, and others) as well as a part-time and temporary staff of six to twelve consultants, subcontractors, and other resource personnel. The company has been very successful in the Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) program and has received Phase I and II support from NIDDR, NIH, NSF, and the US Department of Education. ASI designs and distributes a number of custom software and hardware products for the educational research and assistive technology communities. These include the Adaptive Device Locator System (ADLS), a full spectrum national database, listing products from almost 1000 vendors for elderly and disabled persons and the family members and professionals who assist them. A new project supported by the US Department of Education to place ADLS-on-the-Web where it can be accessed by everyone is currently in progress. ASI pioneered the development of software to automate the production of picture overlays for membrane keyboards and augmentative communications boards, producing the Unicorn Overlay Express for Unicorn Engineering (now Intellitools, Incorporated) and the Apple version of the Picture Communication Symbols for the Mayer-Johnson Company. Now, however, the company is best known for its products for single switch access for PC computer users. According to Dr. Warren Lacefield, president of ASI, "Today, inexpensive PC computers can be adapted as easily as the Macintosh for home, classroom, or business use by persons with special needs." ASI produces the SS-ACCESS PC Package, a

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