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We offer up-to-date articles and videos on adaptive mobility and positioning, evidence-informed practice, school-based practice, early intervention, adult rehabilitation, equipment funding, and product updates.

A girl stands in a Rifton Mobile Stander and reads a book with her caretaker.

We offer up-to-date articles and videos on adaptive mobility and positioning, evidence-informed practice, school-based practice, early intervention, adult rehabilitation, equipment funding, and product updates.

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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 little boy stands in a Rifton Stander and plays with a little girl.
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Choosing Between Adaptive Standing Frames
Many people with neuromuscular disabilities benefit from adaptive standing programs. Research shows that standing improves musculoskeletal development, postural control, bowel and bladder function, respiration, reduces tone, and improves…
A girl steadies herself with a Rifton Grab Bar while she washes her hands.
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The Four Unique Benefits of Rifton’s Grab Bar and Anchor Family
The Rifton Grab Bars and Anchors are one of the better kept secrets of Rifton’s line of adaptive equipment. Attaching to desks and tabletops, this set of arm supports and grips, while small in size, can have a big effect on positioning…
5 Rifton Anchors
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Increasing Independence with the Rifton Grab Bars and Anchor Family
The Rifton Anchors are a family of suction cup grab bars, hand grips, and arm supports. They provide distal arm stabilization to enhance proximal stability of head, shoulder, trunk and pelvis.
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…
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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 child with autism sits in a Rifton compass chair to participate in music class.
Article
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).
A little boy walks in a Rifton Pacer gait trainer while his caretaker assists him.
Article
The On Time Mobility Framework
“On Time Mobility” is a term coined to reflect best practices towards providing hours of daily active mobility opportunities to young children with disabilities, to foster exploration, motor development and socialization.
a boy in a Rifton Adaptive Tricycle
Article
Funding Assistance for Adaptive Equipment
(Updated July 2025) 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…
Tips & Advice
A boy sits on a trike while his caregiver smiles and claps with him.
Article
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
Article
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.
Article
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 man being transferred out of a wheelchair with a Rifton TRAM
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Solving Transfers with the Rifton TRAM
Use the TRAM to make transfers out of a wheelchair with fixed armrests.
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