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Whether you work in a school, hospital, inpatient, or outpatient setting you’ll find valuable and up-to-date resources in our education center.

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A boy riding a Rifton Adaptive Tricycle, with his caretaker standing next to him
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Physical Activity Disability and Health
Creative mobility initiatives and activity-based strategies can improve health and foster inclusion for children with disabilities.
A pink Rifton Gait Trainer featuring prompts for every part of the body shows the new product design and development manufacturing process includes therapists requests
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Rifton Product Design Development Your Voice Matters
Getting Feedback is the First Step in Product Design Rifton Equipment places great value on product design and development. It is our intent to design products that are truly needed, and to design them in a way that makes them functional,…
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Safe Patient Handling and Movement: Effectively Using Gait Training Equipment
It is an exciting time in the field of rehabilitation. For people who have sustained a neurological injury such as a stroke, incomplete spinal cord injury or traumatic brain injury there is now hope for regaining the ability to ambulate…
School-Based Therapy
A boy sits in a Rifton Compass Chair and kicks his feet in the air.
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The Compass Chair: A Classroom Seating Option for the Child with Autism
It’s an ongoing discussion, and one that anyone involved in some way with students with autism are familiar with. How do I get my students to concentrate so that they can learn? Can they ever sit still enough at a desk to learn the…
A girl stands in a Rifton Stander and talks with her therapist.
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The School-Based Team: Fostering Therapist-Teacher Collaboration
A collaborative team approach is best practice in a school-based setting for students with disabilities. Educators, classroom staff, related service providers like speech, OT, and PT, families and the students themselves are all valuable…
A young woman uses the steering bar on the Rifton Pacer gait trainer to guide the walking of a young boy.
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Mobility and Fitness Interventions for Children and Adults with Medical Complexity
Children with medical complexity benefit from use of supportive walkers and gait trainers...
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Funding Guides
a boy in a Rifton Adaptive Tricycle
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Funding Assistance for Adaptive Equipment
Sometimes it can seem impossible to find funding for a piece of adaptive equipment you know will vastly enrich and enhance your child or client’s life. Start by reading the online guides listed below to check that you have tried all…
A boy sits on a trike while his caregiver smiles and claps with him.
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Adaptive Tricycle Funding Resources
A bike is the quintessence of childhood happiness. But for a child with disabilities, we think it’s a medical necessity. Beyond the joy and exhilaration of free-wheeling movement, the opportunity for reciprocal lower extremity…
A girl walking in a Rifton Pacer, smiling with her therapist
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Navigating the Funding Maze for Assistive Technology
These funding tips will help you successfully navigate funding sources more effectively and avoid unnecessary delays, to get children the equipment they need.
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