Empowering individuals with disabilities who choose to live independently in the
setting of their choice sometimes is as simple as obtaining adaptive devices. Adaptive
devices can assist an eligible individual
with a disability to maintain or improve function and conserve energy.
This program is funded through the State of South Dakota who has set guidelines for services and equipment. Below is a chart listing some examples of items that have and have not been
approved in the past.
Items that have been APPROVED:
- Medication organizers
- Adaptive cups
- Jar openers
- Touch lamps
- Grab bars
- Communication devices
- Showerhead
- Shower chair
- Hand held shower
- Raised toilet seat
- Sock puller
- One handed can opener
- Eating utensils
- Lift chair
- Talking watches
- Communication board
- Laundry bag
- Waterpik
- Kitchen cart
- Utility cart
- Sit/stand stool
- Diabetic foot kit
- Stair glide/chair
- Vehicle step
- Pan holder
- Reacher
- Long-handled shoe horn
- Vehicle modifications
Items that have been DENIED:
- Front loading washing machine
- Countertop dishwasher
- Hearing aids
- Electro larynx
- Whirlpool
- Lumbar support pillows
- Sitting porch on a ramp
- Four track cassette player
- 2nd vehicle or 2nd home modification
- Handrail for hospital bed
- Exercise equipment
The scope of services do not include medical, prosthetic or orthotic devices (hospital
beds or related equipment, wheelchairs, artificial limbs, devices for supporting
or assisting limb functions, etc.), medical supplies and medications. Other examples outside the scope of services are:
telecommunication equipment, expensive adapted silverware instead of regular
adapted utensils, ramps constructed of expensive materials (solid oak) instead of
treated lumber, etc. The State of
South Dakota
reserves the right to determine what devices are within the scope of services.