2023 Exhibitor Directory

2023 AHEAD Conference Sponsors

Glean logo
Glean
Booth: 207/209/306/308
Website: www.glean.co

Glean is the number one note taking accommodation trusted by Disability Services in 700+ higher education institutions to provide compliant, effective, reliable support at scale. No more peer notes - students record classes and take notes independently, knowing nothing is missed, returning to the audio or transcript at their own pace.

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Otter.ai
Booth: 425
Website: https://go.otter.ai/otter-ahead-jul23
More than 2000 universities, colleges, and community colleges have partnered with Otter.ai to enhance accessibility for students, faculty, and administrators. Otter uses AI to provide real-time notes, captioning and automatic slide capture to makes lectures, classes, and meetings more inclusive, both in-person and virtually.

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Clockwork

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ClockWork
Booth: 208
Website: www.clock-works.us

Looking to enhance your student disability services? Look no further than ClockWork! Our digital platforms are tailor-made for Disability Support Services departments, streamlining departmental procedures and offering timely assistance to students. With seamless integration and on-demand data, ClockWork makes it easy to prioritize what matters most. And now, with VA Works, managing VA benefits is a breeze. Reach out to us today and experience the difference! 

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Verbit
Website: www.verbit.ai
Booth: 521

Verbit serves as an essential partner to help push access and inclusion efforts forward at 3000+ businesses and institutions.  Verbit’s purpose-built solutions, such as captioning, transcription, audio description and translation, support universities in creating an inclusive learning environment for all students.

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Symplicity
Booth: 225/324
Website: www,symplicity.com

Symplicity Accommodate helps institutions streamline workflows to quickly deliver accommodations and ensure student success and compliance with university policies and governmental regulations. Modernize the process with a fully ADA-compliant interface that allows students to seamlessly submit requests, connect with note-takers/transcribers, check out assistive devices electronically, and more.  

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Codemantra
Booth: 109
Website: https://codemantra.com/
Codemantra is an intelligent document processing (IDP) company that helps higher education institutions create accessible learning materials. Our AI-powered platform accessibility Insight audits digital documents in multiple formats (PDF, Word, etc.), generates a compliance report, and performs automated PDF remediation to be compliant as per PDF U/A and WCAG standards.


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Partners Interpreting, LLC
Booth: 309/408
Website: www.partnersinterpreting.com
Partners Interpreting (PI) is a leading full-service signed language interpreting and captioning company that offers a comprehensive range of language and communication access services for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community. PI delivers top-notch interpreting services, real-time captioning (CART/C-Print/TypeWell), post-production captioning, video remote interpreting, translation, and Sign Language across 150+ colleges and universities, and over 800 organizations and businesses nationwide.

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ReadSpeaker
Booth: 214
Website: www.readspeaker.com/education

ReadSpeaker, a leader in TTS, provides accessibility tools with certified integrations in Blackboard, Canvas, BrightSpace and other LMS providers. Utilizing the best voices in the market, our tools enhance the online learning experience for ALL learners AND provide the flexibility and compatibility to provide accommodations for testing using UDL methodology.

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Access Interpreting
Booth: 326
Website: www.ainterpreting.com
Access Interpreting is a full-service language procurement agency that serves Deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing communities alike! Visit us to learn how our “Better is Possible” ideology in collaboration with Ūsked’s advanced scheduling technology can create equitable learning environments by incorporating ASL, CART, Spoken Language and Document Translation accommodations! 

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Continual Engine
Continual Engine 
Booth: 115
Website:
https://www.continualengine.com/

Continual Engine is an award-winning, generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology company dedicated to making learning and accessibility smarter, affordable, and scalable. By leveraging sophisticated technologies like automation, machine learning, and more in collaboration with human experts, we deliver exponential savings for image alt text, document remediation, video accessibility, and more. 

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Dolphin Computer Access
Dolphin Computer Access
Booth: 513
Website: https://yourdolphin.com/
Dolphin Computer Access is a British company based in Worcester that designs, creates and sells software for people who are blind or have vision and print impairments, dyslexia and other specific learning difficulties.

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Northern Arizona University- Institute for Human Development
Booth: 107
Website: https://nau.edu/ihd/
The Institute for Human Development is a research and training program located at Northern Arizona University. Our program is part of a national network of University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDDs). Our work in research, service, education, and dissemination positively impacts individuals with disabilities at all life stages

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2023 Conference Exhibitors




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Accessible Information Management, LLC 
Booth: 409
Website: www.accessiblelearning.com

Accessible Information Management provides Disability Service offices with an Accessible Online database system that manages, tracks and provides metrics on all student requests for accommodations and services. Not only does it streamline services, but it also allows students to select accommodations and provides a method of real time tracking of information.


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Allied Powers
Booth: 127
Website: ww.eMP10.com
Our product employs the latest in Electric Muscle Stimulation technology. With a fully rechargeable lithium battery, our devices are portable and easy to use. 

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Allyant
Booth: 203
Website: https://allyant.com/

Allyant, though its legacy businesses T-Base and CommonLook, have provided accessible documents and printed resources in braille, large print and accessible PDF to the Education marketplace for more than two decades.  We pride ourselves on delivering fully compliant accessible communications to all. We make accessibility simple, seamless, and efficient.


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Ava
Booth: 226
Website: www.ava.me

Ava’s mission is to lift all communication barriers. Ava live captions is a web and mobile-based speech recognition technology that lets organizations and individuals transcribe in real-time any offline or online conversation with an exceptionally high accuracy, thus empowering +450M deaf/hard-of-hearing people to understand who says what, anywhere, anytime


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BioGAP
Booth: 524
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/nagapbiogap/home
BioGAP: Professional organization of more than 40 institutions with biomedical-related doctoral programs. We are working to identify students with disabilities who have demonstrated high motivation, persistence and achievement in STEM fields, and are eager to work in biomedical science and engineering research and development. 

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Center for Inclusive Design and Innovation/AccessText Network
Booth: 526
Website
: https://cidi.gatech.edu/

CIDI is recognized as a leader for services and research in accessibility. We are dedicated to an inclusive society through innovations in assistive and universally designed technologies, with a goal of addressing the full range of needs for accessibility. CIDI is also proud to manage the AccessText Network.

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Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation 
Booth: 227
Website: https://www.christopherreeve.org/
Reeve’s National Paralysis Resource Center (NPRC) promotes the health, well-being, and independence of people living with all forms of paralysis, as well as their caregivers and families, by providing free comprehensive information, mentoring and referral services to achieve a better quality of life.


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Deaf Services Unlimited
Booth: 103
Website: www.deafservicesunlimited.com

Deaf Services Unlimited is a communication accessibility provider, offering sign language interpreting and captioning services for Deaf and Hard of Hearing individuals. Services are conveniently available on-site or remotely, 24/7/365. DSU is a nationwide service provider specializing in providing services to institutions of higher education in urban, suburban, and rural areas. 

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Delta Alpha Pi International Honor Society (DAPi)
Booth: 206
Website: www.deltaalphapihonorsociety.org

Delta Alpha Pi International Honor Society (DAPi) is the premier collegiate academic honorary that recognizes high-achieving students with disabilities and promotes disability identity. DAPi has over 200 chapters at colleges/universities in 38 states and DC. DAPi provides opportunities for leadership, advocacy and education regarding disability issues and one annual scholarship to an active undergraduate member. 



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Disability Access Information and Support (DAIS)
Booth: 427
Website: www.daisclasses.com
Disability Access Information and Support (DAIS) provides online professional development courses, virtual presentations, program reviews, and more to institutions of higher education and professionals in the field of disability services.  DAIS President Jane Jarrow welcomes the opportunity to provide technical assistance to the DSS community. 

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DO-IT
Booth: 224
Website: www.washington.edu/doit

DO-IT serves to increase the success of individuals with disabilities in college and careers. The exhibit features materials designed to engage faculty, staff, and students nationwide in efforts to make higher education content accessible to all. 





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Educational Testing Service
Booth: 525
Website: www.ets.org/disabilities
As the world’s largest high-stakes testing agency, ETS works to advance quality and equity in education by providing fair and valid assessments, research and related services. The Office of Disability Policy (ODP) at ETS is committed to providing reasonable testing accommodations for candidates with documented disabilities and/or health-related needs. 

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Habitat Learn, Inc.
Booth: 515
Website: www.habitatlearn.com
Habitat Learn is an ecosystem of accessible products and services created to remove the barriers to learning through human-centered design. We provide everything you need to deliver inclusive courses, including detailed notes, accurate captions, and seamless live-streaming. Our products unify every learning experience. 

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Hamilton CapTel
Booth: 300
Website: https://hamiltoncaptel.com/

Hamilton® CapTel® is dedicated to delivering innovative solutions that make telephone calls accessible and reliable for people with hearing loss. The ability to listen and read captions of what’s said to you using a captioned telephone, smart device or Cisco® business phone provides confidence and independence on every call.



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The Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (HERC)
Booth: 307
Website: HERCJobs.org
The Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (HERC) is a consortium of 700+ colleges, universities, hospitals, and research entities. HERC is the only non-profit devoted to connecting exceptional professionals with careers in higher education. HERC is committed to advancing equity, inclusion and creating a future shaped by diversity of thought and perspectives. 

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HRI-CART, LLC
Booth: 218
Website: www.hricart.com

Hardeman Realtime Inc. (HRI), founded in 1992, provides exceptional communication access services in CART Captioning, TypeWell, VRI, video captions, and transcription. Ranked #102 among the Southeast’s fastest-growing privately held companies, HRI attributes its success to pairing 300+ highly qualified providers with dedicated account managers for any meeting, event, or class. 



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JST Coaching & Training
Booth: 406
Website: www.jstcoaching.com

JST Coaching & Training, the leading authority on coaching for neurodivergent learners for over 25 years, provides research-based higher education coach training for DR professionals. Learn  core coaching skills and strategies essential in helping students improve self-advocacy, critical thinking and self-determination skills leading to increased success and persistence to graduation. 

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Landmark College Institute for Research and Training
Booth: 212
Website: www.landmark.edu/PD

Landmark College Institute for Research and Training conducts research and develops innovative practices to improve teaching and learning for students with learning disabilities, ADHD, and autism. The Institute provides training through workshops, Summer Institute, and an online Certificate in Learning Differences and Neurodiversity with specializations including Postsecondary Disability Services.

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National Deaf Center on Postsecondary Outcomes (NDC)
Booth: 519
Website: www.nationaldeafcenter.org

The National Deaf Center on Postsecondary Outcomes (NDC) is a Technical Assistance and Dissemination center funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP). NDC is a resource center for obtaining information, learning strategies, and building networks to improve continuing education and training for deaf people.


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National Center on Health, Physical Activity and Disability (NCHPAD)
Booth: 220
Website:  www.nchpad.org
NCHPAD is the premier resource for information on physical activity, health promotion, and disability, serving persons with physical, sensory and cognitive disability across the lifespan. NCHPAD’s features a variety of resources and services which can benefit all ages and populations and can be found online at www.nchpad.org.

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Neurolearning SPC 
Booth: 506
Website: https://neurolearning.com/college-and-university/

Neurolearning’s Dyslexia Screening Test provides an accurate, fast, and affordable way to identify dyslexia and other sources of academic difficulty in college and university students. It can match students with technologies and supports they need to succeed, and identify those needing urgent comprehensive testing. Free trial tests!


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Peace Corps Response
Booth: 121
Website: https://www.peacecorps.gov/
Short-term. High-impact international volunteer positions. Experience required. Seeking professionals with diverse skills and the know-how to hit the ground ready to serve. Bring your expertise and experience to the projects where you are needed the most. 

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sComm
Booth: 402
Website: www.sComm.com

The UbiDuo 3 enables simultaneous face to face communication between people who are deaf, hard of hearing, and late deafened at any time or any place.  The UbiDuo 3 can be used in any setting:  Education, Medical, Employment, Law Enforcement, Independent Living, Work Force,  Personal.  No Wifi or Internet needed. 

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Sensus Aps.
Booth: 202
Website: www.sensusaccess.com

SensusAccess® is a conversion service for accessible documents and alternate media. SensusAccess® automates conversion of documents into a wide range of alternative formats including Braille, MP3, Beeline, Language to language translation, DAISY, DAISY math and e-books in 30+ languages. SensusAccess® converts inaccessible documents into more accessible formats integrates with popular LMSs.

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Sonova USA, Inc.
Booth: 113
Website: www.us.morethanahearingaid.com

The mission of the Phonak Work Life team is to provide innovate hearing solutions, accommodations on guidance, and education on for students transitioning to post-secondary education and the workplace. We believe that a holistic approach is necessary which considers solutions beyond a hearing aid.

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Spellex 
Booth: 509
Website: www.spellex.com
Since 1988, Spellex’s assistive technology products and course specific vocabularies have provided literacy assistance for neurodiverse students across the globe! Spellex Write-Assist, our new all-in-one Assistive Technology Toolbar, includes speech-to-text, text-to-speech, definitions and pronunciations, advanced spelling, error reporting, screen magnification, dyslexic type font, picture dictionary, pdf tools, OCR, and more!

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Texthelp
Booth: 201
Website: https://www.texthelp.com/

Hello we’re Texthelp. Our range of assistive technologies help struggling students and their teachers. Our easy-to-use literacy and math support tools give students extra help with reading, writing & STEM, in the classroom and at home. By increasing students' confidence and attainment our award-winning solutions can help every young person achieve their potential.

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U.S. Department of State
Booth: 302
Website: https://careers.state.gov/
The U.S. Department of State’s mission is to advance freedom for the benefit of the American people and the world writ-large by helping to build and sustain a more democratic, secure, and prosperous world composed of well-governed states that respond to the needs of their people, reduce wide-spread poverty, and act responsibly within the international system. In order to keep up with the ever-changing world, we need talented people from all walks of life to help us accomplish this mission.

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Vispero 
Booth: 508
Website: www.vispero.com

Vispero® is the world’s leading assistive technology provider for the visually impaired. We have a long history of developing and providing innovative solutions for blind and low vision individuals that help them reach their full potential


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Winston in College, Winston Preparatory School 
Booth: 303
Website: https://www.winstonprep.edu/online/winston-in-college

Winston in College offers 1:1 virtual learning support services for students with learning disabilities such as dyslexia, executive functioning difficulties (ADHD), and nonverbal learning disorders (NVLD) who are transitioning to or are currently enrolled in any college program nationally who would like to develop or hone the academic and social skills needed for success.


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YuJa Inc 
Booth: 125
Website: https://www.yuja.com/

YuJa is a leader in ed-tech solutions. Our platforms provide organizations of all sizes with tools to educate, engage, and inspire and collaborate. We serve learning enterprises within all sectors, including higher-ed, K-12, government, healthcare, non-profit and corporate. We have legal headquarters in Delaware with primary U.S. offices in Silicon Valley, California and Canadian offices in Toronto. 


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