Donate to Patty Walsh Cassidy Lending Library

You can make another voice heard.

Your donations help bring assistive technology directly to those who need it most.

Patty Walsh-Cassidy hoped to one day create a lending library to make available the devices, software, materials, and guidance that make such a difference to those still striving for a voice. There are children who want desperately to be heard, whose famiies and teachers are overwhelmed by or unaware of the spectrum of assistive technologies that help children with disabilities to reach their full potential. The lending library serves as a resource for educators and specialists, families and young people to try the solutions that be the best fit for them.

About Patty

Patty Walsh-Cassidy had a vision. She saw a world in which some children struggled to communicate, and believed things could be different. It was her conviction that every child should have the education, tools, and support they need to have their dreams, hopes, and desires heard.

This conviction drove Patty’s work over a more than twenty-year career as a speech therapist, assistive technology sepcialist, teacher, trainer, speaker, and innovator. In 1995, Patty co-founded the CES Center for Assistive Technology and Training (CATT) in Northampton.

The Collaborative for Educational Services is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt, non-profit educational services agency.

Tax deductible donations may be made by sending a check made out to the Collaborative for Educational Services, 97 Hawley Street, Northampton, MA 01060, with PWC Library in the notes field.