Join us for an intimate conversation with modern-day visionary Alex Truesdell, Executive Director and Founder of the Adaptive Design Association, Inc. Like many ingenious ideas - Truesdell began the process that would eventually become the Adaptive Design Association in a garage. At that time she was trying to come up with simple and affordable solutions to assist her aunt after an acquired spinal cord injury. For over thirty years, an equity-based entrepreneurial spirit pervades Truesdell's Adaptive Design Association, Inc. With a "Never Say No" policy, the Adaptive Design Association refuses no one care.

Assisting thousands of children and adults around the world every year, the Adaptive Design Association is a global force for good in the disabilities community and beyond. Alex has taught hundreds of courses in adaptive design to professionals and parents throughout the Northeast, and through the Hilton-Perkins International Program, has trained educators in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, India, Poland, and Guatemala.

As ADA s founding director, Alex draws on her tenure as founder and coordinator of the Assistive Device Center at the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, MA a school recognized internationally as a leader in the education of children who are blind and deaf-blind. In 1996, Alex was awarded a fellowship in International Community Development co-sponsored by the Partners of the Americas and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. In addition to her experience in the field, Alex holds a Master's degree in Teaching the Visually Impaired from Boston College, and a Master's degree in Curriculum Development from Lesley University. Alex is co-author of the book Creative Constructions: Technologies that make adaptive design accessible, affordable, inclusive and fun.

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