Home Showcases High, Low-Tech Assistive Devices
(August 19, 2005)
The model home was introduced to the public recently at an open house at the Western New York Independent Living Project, Inc. at 3108 Main Street in Buffalo, to celebrate its move from UB's South (Main Street) Campus to its current, more accessible site.
The five-room "home" is chock-full of items large and small, high-tech and low, which can make life easier for persons with physical disabilities or for people who need a little assistance now and then with activities of daily living. All of these devices, including those that were developed at the University at Buffalo's Center for Assistive Technology (CAT), are available to try out on site and some can be loaned out to test at home.