To adapt your toys for switch Access you will need: Any Single Switch and a Toy Cable (3 feet long).   Any battery-operated toy or appliance with AA, C or D batteries.

Insert the copper disk at the end of the Toy Cable between the battery and battery contact.  Turn the toy on - it should not work, since you have interrupted its connection to the battery.  Plug your switch into the 1/8" jack at the other end of the Toy Cable.  Activate the switch to operate the toy.      (batteries sold separately)

Encourage students to work together, while reinforcing simultaneous motor activity! This simple series adapter requires two students to activate two switches simultaneously to operate the desired toy or appliance. It can also be used by one student for encouraging bilateral hand function. (Toy not included)

Normally when a switch is plugged into a device, it turns it on for only as long as the switch is activated - when you let go of the switch, the device turns off.  To change this action so that the device remains on even after you let go of the switch, you need a Switch Latch and Timer.

• Use with adapted toys, tape recorders, radios, etc.
• May use with up to two switches and two separate devices
• Mode of activation: momentary latching and timed
• Batteries included!

The Ability Switch Tester is a great unit for testing your switches.  All three types of switches - single, dual, and multiple; plug in directly and may be tested.

Suitable for: 

• Evaluating a number of different clients on switches: an auditory beep and light will indicate that your client has successfully activated a switch
• Isolating problems: if your switch will not activate a particular device, you can find out whether it's your switch or the device that is not working!

Allows you to plug 2 single switches into a device with a stereo jack.

Allows you to use a dual switch with 2 devices that are each operated by a single switch.

Allows you to use a dual switch with 1 device that is operated by a single switch 

Allows you to use 5 single switches to operate any device that accepts 1 multiple switch (ie. that has a 9 pin D sub connector)

Allows you to use 1 multiple switch with 5 devices that are each operated by a single switch

Cable extensions - 5ft - 152 cm