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Welcome to SIFTS

SIFTS is a web-based tool designed to assist assistive technology (AT) decision-making teams in matching a person’s needs with AT features. SIFTS is also helpful for children through adults and can be used by parents, students, consumers, and professionals serving people with disabilities.

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What is SIFTS?

SIFTS is a quick and easy web-based survey tool developed primarily to support decision-making teams who need assistance in matching a person’s needs and strengths to AT features. It has embedded text, picture, and video supports to assist teams in building their knowledge of assistive technologies, as well as their capacity to implement AT assessments.

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How does it work?

SIFTS is a quick and easy web-based survey tool developed primarily to support decision-making teams who need assistance in matching a person’s needs and strengths to AT features. Questions about a person’s needs and abilities are presented and the answers provided lead to suggestions of specific AT features for the identified domain.

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Funded in part through a grant from the Ohio Department of Education - Office for Exceptional Children