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CCATT Center

Collaborative Center for Assistive Technology and Training (CCATT) - serving the Western MA area

The Collaborative's CCATT center is a team of multi-disciplinary professionals who provide evaluation, consultation, and training and have expertise in a wide variety of assistive technology supports for communication and learning. We utilize a student-centered framework in our evaluation and consultation services to determine which assistive technology supports might best fit that student’s needs and work with the team for successful implementation of the supports across the curriculum. Our team also provides trainings at the Collaborative, at local and national conferences, and in school districts throughout the region on a variety of assistive technology topics. We can provide professional development training and can tailor our services to meet the needs of a team or school district. Recently, the CCATT center proudly launched a new lending library for assistive technology tools. The Patty Walsh-Cassidy (PWC) Assistive Technology Lending Library provides short-term loans of assistive technology hardware and software so that individuals in the community (teachers, therapists, parents, individuals with disabilities) can try out assistive technology solutions to see if they are appropriate before they commit to buying them. More information about the library can be found at http://www.pwclibrary.org.

04/09/2026

Great info on teaching yes/no!

05/19/2025

Children may benefit from augmentive and alternative communication (AAC) if they have communication disorders or medical diagnoses that make it difficult to be understood by their family, caregivers and peers. AAC can be used at any age, even during the infant and toddler years.

03/20/2025

Need to write goals for your AAC user? Make sure you are thinking about all five of the AAC competencies and how you can help your student improve across the full range!

08/27/2024

Yes. This. 👍

At the beginning of the school year it can be tempting to print out “core boards” and sprinkle them like confetti around classrooms/ the school. New students are coming in with no communication system and it can be tempting to hand them out, Oprah-style - “you get a core board, and you get a core board,” and so on. While they are a useful support and a helpful place to start when you don’t have immediate access to something robust, they are not a robust AAC system. They often lack developmentally appropriate and motivating vocabulary and intrinsically lack voice output - a highly motivating feature in an AAC device.

I also see too many district Assistive Technology teams using core boards as a pre-requisite to obtaining robust AAC. No student should HAVE to use a core board for a variety of communicative functions while combining words before they are granted access to a trial of a high tech robust AAC system. AT teams need to DO BETTER. SLPs in these districts need to start advocating for EBP practices around AAC and start demanding that their students get access to high tech, ROBUST AAC systems.

07/10/2024

** Important ** Latest news for PRC-Saltillo app users (TouchChat and LAMP) - removing support for iOS 14 (click below for more info)

05/22/2024

We are looking for a Speech-Language Pathologist with a passion for AAC and Assistive Technology to join our team!

05/12/2024

Take every student to new heights in their literacy learning including students with complex needs with evidence-based literacy instruction from Building Wings.

05/01/2024

Check out www.marykatherinedally.com and download her free manual that shoes you how to create switch adapted toys!!! Great resource!!!

Address

228 Pleasant Street
Northampton, MA
01060

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 4pm
Tuesday	8am - 4pm
Wednesday	8am - 4pm
Thursday	8am - 4pm
Friday	8am - 4pm

Telephone

+14135885266

Website

http://collaborative.org/ccatt

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