Assistive Technology

Phone
318-425-2400
Address
619 Jordan St.
Shreveport, LA 71101
Notes
This company offers custom fitted limbs, braces, post-mastectomy bras & breast forms, and dibaetic shoes.
Contact
Susie Stewart
Phone
318-841-1548
Address
3003 Knight St, Ste. 118
Shreveport, LA 71105
Notes

LATAN provides clients with items that individuals use to assist them in daily activities, such as canes, wheelchairs, communication devices, hearing aids, keyboard alternatives, learning software, and vision aids.

Services Include Assistive Technology, Training and Technical Assistance, and Community Outreach.

Contact
Janet Bernhardt 
Phone
318-251-2891 
Fax
318-251-0109
Address
101 South Trenton Street 
Ruston, LA 71270 
Notes

Services Involve: Adult Program, Senior Program, Infant and Toddler Program, NFB Bell Academy, STEP Program, Buddy Program, Saturday Club Program, Braille Rocks, and LCB Langiappe.

Through self-organization in the National Federation of the Blind, the blind are changing the course of services and programs for blind persons from traditional custodial approaches to innovative and exciting ones which stress self-sufficiency and independence.

Phone
(318) 698-2300 
Fax
(318) 698-2304
Address
1714 Claiborne Ave.
Shreveport, LA 71103 
Hours
Monday Thru Friday: 7:30 am - 4:00 pm.
Notes

Low Vision Rehabilitation Center, Employment Services, Print Services, AbilityOne Supply Services, Contract and Assembly, and Contact Center Services.

The Visual Aids Store offers a wide range of assistive technology devices to put you back in touch with the world you once knew.

Phone
318-671-8131 ext. 110
Fax
318-688-7823
Address
1701 N Market Street
Shreveport, LA 71107
Notes

Through funding by the Louisiana Commission for the Deaf, New Horizons provides assistive technology services and devices for consumers who can provide documentation of hearing loss, combined hearing and visual loss, or a speech impairment.

THE FIVE CORE INDEPENDENT LIVING SERVICES Cover: Information and Referral, Peer Counseling, Skills Training, Advocacy, and Transition.

Provides assistance for employment, GREEN (Giving Recycled/Reusable Equipment for Everyday Needs) Program, Attendant Training, and Attendant Services.

Contact
Lauren Swift, Patient Coordinator
Phone
318-734-7933
Fax
318-550-4901
Address
1801 Fairfield Ave., Ste. 301
Shreveport, LA 71101
Notes

Provide the most advanced upper (hands, arms, elbows) and lower (knees, legs, feet) prosthetics on the market today.

Products include Ottobock, Ossur and College Park.

Contact
Camille Webb
Phone
318-673-7845
Address
City of Shreveport Parks & Rec
505 Travis St.
Shreveport, LA 71101
Notes

Basic Computer Class for Seniors - Basic Microsoft Word, Creating Address Book, Developing an Email Address, Functions of the Mouse, Making Business Cards, Making Labels, Replying and Forwarding an Email Message, Surfing the Internet, and Tracing Your Family Tree.

Advanced Computer Class for Seniors - Basic Microsoft PowerPoint, Developing Websites, Word Editing, Making Charts, and Scanning.

Crafty Computer 102 (Completing Advanced Computers Prerequisite) - Personal Mouse Pads, Canvas Bags, Personal Night Lights, Collages, Resizing Pictures, Decorative Cuff Links, and Tie Pins.

Phone
318-424-4167
Toll Free
800-219-5273
Address
1833 Line Avenue
Shreveport, LA 71101
Hours
Monday Thru Friday, 8:00am - 5:00pm
Notes

Our caring and conscientious staff employs the most successful treatment methods and technologies to serve patient needs, including CAD/CAM (computer aided design and manufacture) for precision design and fabrication of a comfortable, custom orthosis or prosthesis crafted in our own laboratory.

Also Provides Orthotics, Cranial Helmets for Babies, Prosthetics, and Pedorthics.