TalkLink Services
Services Provided by TalkLink | People with Disabilities | Communication Equipment | Other Assistance
Services provided by TalkLink include:
Specialist assessments, to determine goals, skills, areas of difficulty and possible equipment that will enhance function and increase independence.
- Communication equipment trials, as part of the specialist assessment process.
- Training and support, in the use of communication equipment strategies.
- The completion of funding applications, for the purchase of client’s assistive technology equipment.
- Consultation meetings, with clients and allied professionals.
- Information provision, by telephone, fax, internet and e-mail, and through training courses and seminars.
TalkLink DOES NOT:
Provide funding for Assistive Technology equipment; sell or loan equipment or provide a therapy service.
- Hold any funding for the purchase of assistive technology for our clients. TalkLink is only able to determine appropriate equipment options and then support a funding application to an appropriate funding agency.
- Have authority to approve funding from any source. The decision to approve or decline funding is made by the funding agency concerned.
- Sell assistive technology; it is purchased from established commercial vendors.
- Loan assistive technology equipment, except as part of the TalkLink assessment process.
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