ADAPT Community Network’s Smart Living Center is a home-like environment designed to help people experience, understand and explore accessible and home-enabling technologies that support greater independence, safety, and participation in community life.
The new Bronx Center connects people with disabilities, families, technology innovators, government, academia, and community partners around solutions that advance independence, and brings accessible and adaptive technology to life in a real-world home setting.
“The Smart Living Center reflects both ADAPT’s history and our future. For decades, we have invested in adaptive technology and have seen how pairing the right technology with the right support can transform possibilities through greater choice and independence. The Smart Living Center allows people to experience these possibilities in a setting that feels like home, while creating a collaborative space where families, providers, innovators, researchers, and policymakers can learn from one another” shared Jenna Mandel-Ricci, Chief Executive Officer of ADAPT Community Network.
The Smart Living Center builds on ADAPT Community Network’s longstanding work in assistive and adaptive technology. Individuals, families, providers and partners have the opportunity to access the Center through routine tours and special events. ADAPT will also use the space to create opportunities for deep collaboration among technology companies, researchers, funders and public-sector partners to catalyze access, education, evaluation and innovation.
“I am grateful to ADAPT for using technology to assist persons with disabilities in their daily lives to be more independent” shared AnnMarie Thomas, Self Advocate at ADAPT Community Network.
