Makers Making Change

Makers Making Change is a Canadian non-profit program (part of the Neil Squire Society) that connects volunteer makers with people with disabilities to design, 3D-print, and distribute low-cost, open-source assistive technology. It hosts a library of freely downloadable AT designs — adapted styluses, switch-access devices, eating aids, grip aids, and mobility add-ons — and coordinates local chapters that fabricate devices on request. The program represents a grassroots, maker-community model of AT provision that complements (and sometimes substitutes for) expensive clinical and commercial pathways, and is often cited in accessibility research as evidence that community-driven DIY innovation can meet real needs that mainstream AT markets overlook.