Adaptive Ability

Assistive Technology Training

Adaptive Ability provides consultation, training, and support to individuals who have been recently injured, diagnosed or in need of refresher training in how to successfully implement computer tools to achieve improved levels of success with employment or educational success - specializing in assistive technologies such as mobile devices, voice recognition and language supports.

Web/Print Services

Adaptive Ability specializes in self-managed, or content management systems (CMS) Joomla websites, photography and graphic design.

Leslie Holtman has been serving the disabled community of Waterloo-Wellington through her work and volunteer contributions to local non-profits such as Anishnabeg Outreach and the Learning Disability Association for 13 years. Adaptive Ability is also a member of the Guelph Employment Facilitation Committee and the Cambridge Employment Facilitation Network since 2006. She has also been featured on Kitchener's CTV News and on Rogers First Local because of her work with Adaptive Ability and the ECC of Guelph Wellington. She has helped with fundraising by being a Presenter for workshops/conferences for the Learning Disability Association of Guelph on Adaptive Technology and ADHD, for the LDA of K-W also on Adaptive Technology and most recently at the Kitchener-Waterloo Learning Disabilities Conference on “Adaptive Technology: A window into the future on Alternative Adaptive Technologies”

Leslie's background is in the educational and non-profit fields which includes spending the last 3 years as a Corporate Trainer/Associate Faculty for Conestoga College. She taught the Business Applications Certificate Program three times to over 45 full time students which includes 12 intensely paced courses. Leslie’s experience as an Adaptive Technologist with Disability Services, Conestoga College has given her valuable insight and knowledge in assisting those find easier ways to get the job done. She is no stranger to finding means to cope with disability. She struggled her way through math and sciences before being diagnosed at age 22 with ADHD & specific Learning Disabilities. By finding a career that uses her natural strengths and through the use of accommodations and utilizing adaptive technology she graduated from the Computer Programmer Analyst Diploma program at Conestoga College in 2003.

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