State Grants for Assistive Technology (SGAT)

Program Office: Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA)

CFDA Number: 84.224A; 84.224B
Program Type: Discretionary/Competitive Grants (84.224B), Formula Grants (84.224A)
Also Known As: AT State Grants; National Activities; Alternative Financing Program (AFP); Protection and Advocacy for Assistive Technology

The State Grant for Assistive Technology Program (# 84.224A) supports state efforts to improve the provision of assistive technology to individuals with disabilities of all ages through comprehensive, statewide programs that are consumer responsive. The Assistive Technology State Grant Program makes assistive technology devices and services more available and accessible to individuals with disabilities and their families. The program provides one grant to each of the states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the outlying areas (American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands).

The National Activities program (# 84.224B) provides information and technical assistance through grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements, on a competitive basis, to individuals, service providers, states, protection and advocacy entities, and others to support and improve the implementation of the AT Act.

Who May Apply: (specifically)

• For the State Grant for Assistive Technology Program (# 84.224A), states may apply.
• For the National Activities Program (# 84.224B), public or private entities, including for-profit organizations, and institutions of higher education (IHEs) with relevant expertise may apply.

(February 5, 2013)

• Data-Collection and Reporting Assistance for Assistive Technology Program, CFDA Number 84.224B

• National Assistive Technology Training and Technical Assistance, CFDA Number 84.224B-1

• National Assistive Technology Public Internet Site, CFDA Number 84.224B-2

• Assistive Technology Alternative Financing Program, CFDA Number 84.224D

Application Deadline: July 1, 2011

• FY 2011 application for grants:
  MS Word (1.1M) | PDF (1.4M)

• If you choose to submit your application to us electronically, you must use e-Application available through the Department's e-Grants system, accessible through the e-Grants portal page at: http://e-grants.ed.gov.

• For printed applications contact:
  Education Publications Center (ED Pubs)
  P.O. Box 22207
  Alexandria, VA 22304
  Telephone: (877) 433-7827
  (TDD) (877) 576-7734
  FAX: (703) 605-6794
  ED Pubs Web site
  E-mail: edpubs@inet.ed.gov

You will also need to download the following required Federal forms:

• ED Form 424—Application for Federal Education Assistance (Form and Instructions)
• ED Form 524—Budget Information, Non-Construction Programs
• ED Form 524—Instructions
• Standard Form 424B—Assurances, Non-Construction Programs
• ED80-0013—Certifications Regarding Lobbying; Debarment, Suspension and Other Responsibility Matters; and Drug-Free Workplace Requirements
• ED80-0014—Certification Regarding Debarment, Suspension, Ineligibility and Voluntary Exclusion—Lower Tier Covered Transactions
• Standard Form LLL—Disclosure of Lobbying Activities
• Survey on Ensuring Equal Opportunity for Applicants

• Notice Inviting Applications for New Awards for FY 2011 (May 17, 2011)

Application Deadline: April 30, 2010

• FY 2010 application for grants:
  MS Word (815K) | PDF (535K)

• If you choose to submit your application to us electronically, you must use e-Application available through the Department's e-Grants system, accessible through the e-Grants portal page at: http://e-grants.ed.gov.

• For printed applications contact:
  Education Publications Center (ED Pubs)
  P.O. Box 22207
  Alexandria, VA 22304
  Telephone: (877) 433-7827
  (TDD) (877) 576-7734
  FAX: (703) 605-6794
  ED Pubs Web site
  E-mail: edpubs@inet.ed.gov

You will also need to download the following required Federal forms:

• ED Form 424—Application for Federal Education Assistance (Form and Instructions)
• ED Form 524—Budget Information, Non-Construction Programs
• ED Form 524—Instructions
• Standard Form 424B—Assurances, Non-Construction Programs
• ED80-0013—Certifications Regarding Lobbying; Debarment, Suspension and Other Responsibility Matters; and Drug-Free Workplace Requirements
• ED80-0014—Certification Regarding Debarment, Suspension, Ineligibility and Voluntary Exclusion—Lower Tier Covered Transactions
• Standard Form LLL—Disclosure of Lobbying Activities
• Survey on Ensuring Equal Opportunity for Applicants

• Notice Inviting Applications for New Awards for FY 2010 (March 1, 2010)

Application Deadline:: April 30, 2010

• FY 2010 application for grants:
  MS WORD (793K) | PDF (313K)

• If you choose to submit your application to us electronically, you must use e-Application available through the Department's e-Grants system, accessible through the e-Grants portal page at: http://e-grants.ed.gov.

• For printed applications contact:
  Education Publications Center (ED Pubs)
  P.O. Box 22207
  Alexandria, VA 22304
  Telephone: (877) 433-7827
  (TDD) (877) 576-7734
  FAX: (703) 605-6794
  ED Pubs Web site
  E-mail: edpubs@inet.ed.gov

You will also need to download the following required Federal forms:

• ED Form 424—Application for Federal Education Assistance (Form and Instructions)
• ED Form 524—Budget Information, Non-Construction Programs
• ED Form 524—Instructions
• Standard Form 424B—Assurances, Non-Construction Programs
• ED80-0013—Certifications Regarding Lobbying; Debarment, Suspension and Other Responsibility Matters; and Drug-Free Workplace Requirements
• ED80-0014—Certification Regarding Debarment, Suspension, Ineligibility and Voluntary Exclusion—Lower Tier Covered Transactions
• Standard Form LLL—Disclosure of Lobbying Activities
• Survey on Ensuring Equal Opportunity for Applicants

• Notice Inviting Applications for New Awards for FY 2010 (March 1, 2010)

Timeline

Applications Available: August 8, 2012.
Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: September 7, 2012.

Current Application

• FY 2012 application:
  MS WORD (709KB) | PDF (942KB)

• If you choose to submit your application electronically, you must use the Grants.gov system at www.grants.gov

• For printed applications contact:

Education Publications Center
U.S. Department of Education
P.O. Box 22207
Alexandria, VA 22304

Telephone: (toll free) 1-877-433-7827
Fax: 703-605-6794
TDD: (toll free) 1-877-576-7734

Web site: http://edpubs.ed.gov
E-mail: edpubs@inet.ed.gov

Additional Required Forms

• You can download any additional required federal forms here.
  (Please review grant application to see what additional federal forms may be required.)

Federal Register Notices

• Federal Register Notice Inviting Applications, PDF (216KB) (August 8, 2012)

Application Contact

Robert Groenendaal
U.S. Department of Education
400 Maryland Avenue, SW, room 5025, PCP
Washington, DC 20202-2800

Telephone: 202-245-7393

TDD: Call the Federal Relay Service (FRS), toll free, at 1-800-877-8339

e-mail: robert.groenendaal@ed.gov.

This page covers the following topics:

• Manuals for Program Reviews of Assistive Technology Programs

• State's Annual Performance Report to RSA

• Assistive Technology State Plans

• RSA's Annual Reports to Congress

Under section 4 of the Assistive Technology Act of 1998, as amended (AT Act), the Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) provides a grant to all fifty states and six territories to maintain comprehensive statewide programs that increase access to, acquisition of, and knowledge about assistive technology (AT) devices and services for targeted individuals and entities. These programs are referred to as Statewide AT Programs. RSA assesses compliance with the requirements of the AT Act, Education Department General Administrative Regulations (EDGAR), and OMB Circulars through the State Plan for AT, data collection and reporting, annual financial status reports (SF-269s), and an in-depth review called a Program Review. A Program Review verifies that a grantee is conducting its Statewide AT Program as described in its State Plan for AT, is adhering to the assurances provided in its State Plan for AT, is managing and implementing its grant using accepted practices and consistent with the intent of the AT Act, and is accurately providing data about its grant. This manual describes the process used for verification.

• Manual for Program Reviews of the State Grant for Assistive Technology Program under the Assistive Technology Act of 1998, as Amended
  MS Word (310 KB) | PDF (383 KB)
  Updated as of November 1, 2008

• Manual for Program Reviews of the Alternative Financing Program under the Assistive Technology Act of 1998
  MS Word (488KB) | PDF (318 KB)
  Updated as of November 1, 2008

• Manual for Program Reviews of the Access to Telework Program under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as Amended
  MS Word (497 KB) | PDF (337 KB)
  Updated as of November 1, 2008

Grantees report progress on an annual basis to RSA on the ATAPR form. Beginning in October 2009, grantees will have the ability to submit their annual performance reports on-line using http://rsa.ed.gov.

• More information about the RSA-MIS

• RSA-ATAPR Instructions and Data Collection Instrument -
  MS Word (532KB)

The Assistive Technology Act of 1998, as amended requires states to submit an application in order to receive funds under the State Grants for AT Program. RSA requires this application to be in the form of a three-year State Plan for Assistive Technology (State Plan for AT or State Plan), covering the period Oct. 1, 2008 to Sept. 30, 2011.

State Plans for AT describe how states will implement their Statewide AT Program. During this three-year period covered by the plan, a state may be required to submit amendments and updates.

Published State Plans for AT may be viewed on the RSA Management Information System at http://rsa.ed.gov/view.cfm?rsaform=RSA-664.

For State Plans covering Oct. 1, 2005, to Sept. 30, 2008, read the State Plans for 2006.

Both the Assistive Technology Act of 1998 (AT Act of 1998) and the Assistive Technology Act of 2004, as amended (AT Act of 2004) require that the Secretary of Education submit to Congress a report on the activities funded under those respective acts. These documents report on the activities of two programs authorized under the AT Act of 1998 and AT Act of 2004:

1. State Grants for Assistive Technology (AT), which provides grants for state programs designed to increase access to and acquisition of AT for individuals with disabilities; and

2. Alternative Financing Programs (AFP), which provides grants to support loan programs that help individuals with disabilities purchase AT devices and services.

Available Reports (as of July 2012):

• Fiscal Year 2007 and 2008
• Fiscal Year 2006
• Fiscal Years 2004 and 2005
• Fiscal Years 2001, 2002 and 2003

Assistive Technology Act of 2004, P.L. 108-364; 29 U.S.C 3001 et seq

April 30, 2007:
"Dear Grantee Letter: State Plans for Assistive Technology for October 1, 2007 through September 30, 2008"
  MS Word (32K) | PDF (115K)

April 2, 2007:
"Technical Assistance Circular: Ensuring the appropriateness of loans to individuals with disabilities through the Access to Telework Program"
  MS Word (46K) | PDF (251K)

March 8, 2007:
"Dear Colleague Letter: Waiving Certain EDGAR Requirements Related to AFP and Telework Grants"
  MS Word (28K) | PDF (157K)

October 2, 2006:
"Dear Colleague Letter: Amendments and Updates to State Plans for Assistive Technology"
 MS Word (36K) | PDF (27K)

September 7, 2006:
"Technical Assistance Circular: Ensuring the Appropriateness of Loans to Individuals with Disabilities Through Alternative Financing Programs (AFPs)."
 MS Word (63K) | PDF (50K)

May 15, 2006:
"Information Memorandum: Fiscal Year 2006 Updates and Amendments to the State Plan for Assistive Technology (State Plan for AT)"
 MS Word (57K) | PDF (34K)

March 2, 2005:
"Dear Colleague Letter: Assistive Technology State Grant Program"
 MS Word (33K) | PDF (134K)

March 2, 2005:
"Dear Colleague Letter: Alternative Financing Program"
 MS Word (32K) | PDF (88K)

Over many years, the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) has supported research in assistive technology (AT), as well as making AT more available to people with disabilities. More recently, OSERS has supported a number of activities to encourage and support AT reuse under the Assistive Technology Act. OSERS is now taking the lead on a national level to promote and encourage AT reuse through its sponsorship of a national conference on this issue, as well as through grants to state agencies, non-profit organizations and other entities to support AT reuse (see www.passitoncenter.org for more information).

• Reuse Your AT pamphlet.

(February 5, 2013)

The Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA) runs a National Assistive Technology Training and Technical Assistance Program. This program supports the 56 Statewide Assistive Technology (AT) Act Programs, the 56 Protection and Advocacy for Assistive Technology Programs (PAATs), and the 33 Alternative Financing Programs (AFPs) funded under the Assistive Technology Act of 1998, as amended (AT Act). The goal of this national level program is to improve the effectiveness of the three entities as they work to get AT into the hands of individuals who need it. The program also serves other entities nationwide that are not funded under the act.

http://resnaprojects.org/

(February 5, 2013)

The University of New Hampshire (UNH) maintains a National Assistive Technology Public Internet Site. This website supports people with disabilities (PWD), their family members caregivers or guardians, professionals working with PWD, or anyone looking for assistive technology (AT) product information. It also supports entities funded under the AT Act (and entities not funded under the AT Act) including comprehensive, statewide assistive technology programs (Statewide AT Programs) and protection and advocacy for assistive technology programs (PAAT Programs) that increase access to and acquisition of AT devices and services for individuals with disabilities. The goal of this national level program is to provide a Web site to increase awareness of and access to AT.

http://www.ATConnects.org

(February 5, 2013)

• OMB CIRCULAR A-87 REVISED 05/10/04
  Cost Principles for States/Local Governments & Indian Tribes
  http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/circulars_a087_2004

• CIRCULAR A-21 Revised 05/10/04
  Cost Principles for Educational Institutions
  http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/circulars_a021_2004

• OMB Circular A-133 - Audits of States, Local Governments, and Non-Profit Organizations
  http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/assets/omb/circulars/a133/a133.pdf

(February 5, 2013)

Name:
Robert Groenendaal

E-mail Address:
Robert.Groenendaal@ed.gov

Mailing Address:
U.S. Department of Education, OSERS
Rehabilitation Services Administration
400 Maryland Ave., SW, Room 5025 PCP
Washington, DC 20202-2800

Telephone: 202-245-7393

Fax: 202-245-7590

Name:
Brian Bard

E-mail Address:
Brian.Bard@ed.gov

Mailing Address:
U.S. Department of Education, OSERS
Rehabilitation Services Administration
400 Maryland Ave., SW, Room 5021 PCP
Washington, DC 20202-2800

Telephone: 202-245-7345

Fax: 202-245-7590

(February 5, 2013)