What funding options are available to help pay for assistive technology after a spinal cord injury?

Not a lot, and that’s what’s unfortunate. We have a lot available to people, but people cannot access it, or they cannot pay for it. And so, that results in marginalization of a group of people who are already marginalized because of spinal cord injury. And, we even marginalize them more because they cannot access the equipment or the services that would promote everyday living, and so they’re marginalized.

I think the best funding source is to look at different organizations in the community. Throughout the country there are both national and local organizations for people with spinal cord injuries that have funds and grants available for people to get assistive technology. Ask your social workers, your occupational and physical therapists are a lot of the times the people who will have the information about local organizations that give funding for different pieces of equipment. In the VA System, fortunately we do have funding for people to be able to get assistive technology to be independent in their home.