Occupational Therapist and Assistive Technology Specialist Lynn Boughton received a grant from the GBAPS Education Foundation to create a new program where secondary students in technology programs would repair adaptive technology for students with disabilities to use.

Boughton met with Preble's Technology Education Teacher Nic Zeitler and shared about students' needs and the scope of the project. She met with Zeitler's class and taught the students about disabilities, discussed the area of rehabilitation engineering, and explained how the equipment is used with students throughout the district.

The Technology Education students learned how the equipment worked, disassembled it and repaired the existing equipment that was no longer functional.

Additionally, new switch adapted equipment was purchased with the grant money. Boughton met with the students while they created assembly lines, watched videos on how to adapt the specific equipment and gave them feedback on the equipment they were adapting.

Boughton also worked with Preble Special Education Teacher Jacqui Nelson to have her students test out some of the equipment, and create a connection between the general and special education peers.

Please watch the video below regarding the program.