Communication Access Grants

2024 Communication Access Grants:

• Innovation and digital accessibility projects: Ability Central's major funding encourages the implementation of innovative technologies, services, and solutions benefitting people with disabilities. Ability Central prioritizes projects that employ human-centered, universal design by involving the perspectives of people with disabilities in all steps of the process. Planning and testing must include people with disabilities, and people with disabilities must be compensated.
• Developing and training healthcare professionals in strategies and tools that improve access to care for people with communication disabilities: Activity Central is looking for projects to develop, train, and implement resources and programmatic models for people with disabilities who communicate and access information via methods such as braille, screen readers, American Sign Language (ASL), tactile interpreters, co-navigators, and/or Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC). This project is intended to train and equip healthcare professionals and healthcare systems with the knowledge, accessible resources, and multi-modal communication partner strategies to improve culturally responsive care for patients with communication disabilities and their care teams. These projects should be replicable and include people with disabilities in the planning, training, and implementation.
• Career and leadership development projects for people with communication disabilities: Activity Central is seeking strong, scalable, and replicable projects that provide supportive and fairly-compensated career training opportunities for people with communication disabilities.

For additional information, see the Full Grant Text RFP link.