Assistive Technology Resources

Assistive Technology Resource Centers of Hawaii (ATRC)
ATRC is a federally funded, private non-profit whose mission is to link people with technology and empower individuals through its use. Our primary role is as an education center for anyone interested about Assistive Technology.

Island Skill Gathering
ISG offeres a complete array of assistive listening and alerting devices like Silent Call alerting system for a deaf person, a Comtek FM listening system for a hard of hearing person, or an augmentative communication device for a person with a speech disability.

Relay Hawaii provided by Sprint Relay
Relay Hawaii is a service overseen by the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission that provides full telephone accessibility to people who are deaf, hard-of-hearing, deaf-blind, and speech-disabled. Relay Hawaii provides the equipment and the service free of charge to all qualified residents of Hawai`i. Relay Hawaii allows the people of Hawai`i to communicate with friends, 'ohana, and anyone over the phone using text-telephone (TTY), captioned telephone(CapTel) online and wireless relay services.

Take advantage of Relay Conference Captioning (RCC), a free service provided by Relay Hawaii that allows deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals in Hawaii who prefer to use captioning to participate in multi-party conference calls. A remote captioner listens to the call, captions the dialogue, and speaks on behalf of the deaf/hard-of-hearing participants. To learn more about RCC, please read the Hawaii RCC flyer that describes the service in detail. 

Perkins Scout
Whether you are a family member just interested in how someone reads Braille or whether you aspire to transcribe, this resource lists numerous ways to learn basic and advanced Braille systems.