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Resources About Strokes for Families and Patients

Accessability, Recovery, and Independant Living Resources

Accessibility, Recovery, and Independant Living Resources

Aphasia & Communication

National Aphasia Association

The National Aphasia Association is a nonprofit resource for people with aphasia, their families, healthcare professionals, researchers, and advocates. It provides education, community connections, programs, and information about living with aphasia.

Visit the National Aphasia Association

Tactus Therapy

Tactus Therapy offers speech-therapy apps for people experiencing aphasia, apraxia, dysarthria, cognitive-communication disorders, and swallowing disorders associated with stroke and other neurological conditions. Its current apps cover speaking, comprehension, reading, writing, cognition, speech, and dysphagia.

Visit Tactus Therapy

Bungalow Software

Bungalow Software provides home-based speech and language therapy software. Its aphasia programs include exercises for word retrieval, speech, writing, reading, comprehension, articulation, and related communication skills.

Visit Bungalow Software


Adaptive Equipment & Independent Living

Performance Health

Formery known as Patterson Medical, Performance Health provides rehabilitation equipment and aids to daily living, including dressing and grooming aids, dining products, reachers, home rehabilitation products, mobility equipment, toileting aids, and speech and cognitive therapy products.

Visit Performance Health

The Wright Stuff

The Wright Stuff offers adaptive daily-living equipment, including eating and drinking aids, dressing aids, household products, mobility items, safety products, adapted tools, and other equipment designed to promote independence.

Visit The Wright Stuff

Able Recreation

Able Recreation offers adaptive recreation and mobility-related products, including equipment intended to support participation in recreation and everyday activities.

Visit Able Recreation

Bioness Medical

Bioness develops rehabilitation technology used for neurological rehabilitation, including technology designed to assist individuals experiencing mobility and upper-extremity challenges following neurological injury.

Visit Bioness Medical

Dr. Leonard's

Dr. Leonard's offers health, comfort, footwear, personal-care, mobility, and everyday-living products.

Visit Dr. Leonard's

Nebraska Assistive Technology Partnership

The Assistive Technology Partnership (ATP) is a Nebraska state program that helps people with disabilities explore assistive technology. Services can include equipment evaluation, opportunities to try equipment, equipment reuse, consultation, and assistance identifying possible funding resources.

Nebraska Assistive Technology Partnership
Assistive Technology Funding Assistance
ATP Resource Directory
AT4ALL Equipment Exchange and Reuse


Mobility & Accessible Transportation

The Mobility Resource

The Mobility Resource connects individuals and families with wheelchair-accessible vehicles, adaptive driving equipment, mobility dealers, and information about accessible transportation. Its network includes dealers offering wheelchair vans, lifts, hand controls, securement systems, and other vehicle adaptations.

Visit The Mobility Resource

Nebraska Public Transportation Resources

Nebraska's Department of Transportation maintains statewide public-transit information and resources. This can be a starting point for locating transportation programs, including rural and accessible transit options.

Nebraska Department of Transportation — Public Transit

Resource Disclaimer

The Nebraska Stroke Association provides these resources for informational purposes only. Inclusion of an organization, website, publication, company, product, or service does not constitute an endorsement by the Nebraska Stroke Association. Resources, services, website addresses, and product availability may change over time. Individuals should consult their physician, rehabilitation professional, speech-language pathologist, occupational therapist, physical therapist, or other appropriate healthcare professional when making decisions regarding medical care, rehabilitation, therapy, or adaptive equipment.

Our Impact This Year

  • People Reached and Counting

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  • Years Serving Nebraska

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