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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 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...
A girl rides on a red Rifton Adaptive Tricycle.
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Adaptive Tricycles in Schools
For a child with a disability such as cerebral palsy, the primary goal for the school-based therapist is to improve access to education.
A child with autism sits in a Rifton compass chair to participate in music class.
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Focusing on Participation for Children with Autism
When I first graduated in 1984 and worked with children in the schools, physical therapists typically did not work with children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
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Funding Guides
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.
A young woman stands in a Rifton Supine stander, smiling at her caregiver.
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Addressing Insurance Denials of Standing Devices
NCART recently published this excellent resource providing clinicians with evidence-based guidance in responding to insurance denials for standing devices.
A boy and caregiver in a classroom smile at the camera.
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Unlikely Funding Source for Adaptive Equipment in Ohio
Employer work-place injury within schools may sound unlikely, but for those health professionals routinely assisting students with disabilities in school, it is not uncommon. In fact, the injury rate of health professionals engaging in…
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