{"id":318,"date":"2011-11-07T16:28:21","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T21:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=318"},"modified":"2011-11-28T13:30:37","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T18:30:37","slug":"mystery-monday-1172011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=318","title":{"rendered":"The MDTAP Assistive Technology Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you thinking about purchasing some assistive technology for the holidays? If so, consider &#8220;trying before buying&#8221; and contact MDTAP to borrow a device before you make that financial investment. From low-tech to high-tech, we&#8217;ve got a wide variety of devices available in our lab for anyone interested in trying out an item. From communication devices to video magnifiers and voice amplifiers to braille note-takers, we maintain a large library to choose from. MDTAP provides equipment demonstrations and short-term (up to 4 weeks at a time) equipment loans so that anyone can work with a device before investing in it. Call 1-800-832-4827 or email <a href=\"mailto:mdtap@mdtap.org\">mdtap@mdtap.org<\/a> to arrange a time to visit our assistive technology lab.<\/p>\n<p>And after you try something out, let us know what you&#8217;re interested in, as we can help identify funding sources and grants for all of your AT needs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=149587675112835\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=318\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you thinking about purchasing some assistive technology for the holidays? If so, consider &#8220;trying before buying&#8221; and contact MDTAP to borrow a device before you make that financial investment. From low-tech to high-tech, we&#8217;ve got a wide variety of devices available in our lab for anyone interested in trying out an item. From communication [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,26,18,21,19,24,22,4,11,5,20,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions\/415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}