WhatCanHelp
Find what actually helps.
Describe the situation, who it’s for, and what’s already been tried. Get a shortlist with complexity tiers and funding pathways — plus a PDF summary for funding meetings or IEP appendices.
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How it works
Describe the situation
What's going on, who it's for, what they already use. Write however feels natural — clinical, plain, or somewhere in between.
Review the options
Options matched to the situation you describe, from across the AT landscape. Complexity tiers, funding pathways, and what to watch out for.
Export a summary
PDF to bring to a funding meeting, IEP appendix, or family conversation. Save the hours you'd spend building one from scratch.
Why does this exist?
Finding the right AT means comparing dozens of devices across feature sets that vendors describe inconsistently. WhatCanHelp normalizes that work across the whole AT catalog so the time you save is time you spend on the actual decision — not the catalog. Clinicians, AT counselors, education and rehab professionals — and the families and self-advocates they work with.
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What's in the catalog?
AAC devices, alternative access (switches, eye gaze, head tracking), screen readers and magnification, hearing tech, mobility and seating, cognitive supports, daily-living aids, and smart-home control. Sourced from every major AT vendor and kept current.
Borrow before you buy
Every US state and territory runs a federally funded program that lends assistive technology for free trial periods. Try a device in real life before anyone commits to buying it.
Find your state’s lending program →Get help paying for it
Official state programs — Medicaid, Vocational Rehabilitation, AT financing loans, ABLE accounts — are common starting points for funding equipment. We map the programs and the questions to ask; each one decides what it covers.
Find funding programs in your state →
