Assistive technology can change lives and Closing The Gap is a multi-facetted resource committed to helping you discover how! Founded over 35 years ago by Budd and Dolores Hagen, parents of a child with a disability. Closing The Gap provides professionals, parents and consumers with the information and training necessary to best locate, compare and implement assistive technology into the lives of persons with disabilities. Through our annual international conference, magazine and website, Closing The Gap provides practical and sound content, technologies and a network of professional support to help participants and members gain the insight, knowledge and skills needed to make informed decisions and effectively and immediately evoke change.