Do you have a box of broken or faulty switches?

Many of the schools we visit do. Frequently you'll find them in a box hidden away under a table at the back of the storeroom.

Every so often someone will decide to throw them out and then be faced with the high cost of replacing them.

Repairing them may be an alternative.

Ever since we started working in the assistive technology area we began to receive requests from users asking if we could repair their broken or faulty equipment. Usually we could help and managed each request alongside development of the various Dream-Products.

Now, as a result of positive endorsements from Blackfriars School and ACE Centre-North we have decided to positively promote our repair service to a wider audience of special needs schools, service providers and individual assistive technology users. Although we are mainly focusing on switches we will also look at keyboards and joysticks.

Send us your switches if they:

• no longer work reliably
• stick when pressed
• have damaged leads
• playback poor sound quality

For more details visit the Switch Repair Service page on the Dream-Racer website.

Mike