Start where you are
Sessions follow what you bring that day: the stuck point, the deadline, or the question about a device.
About
About Us
Our Mission
Everyday Abilities Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit in Berkeley, California. Our mission is counseling and assistive technology for people with disabilities, so daily life is a little more workable.
Counseling is sliding-scale; no one is turned away for inability to pay. Counseling fees go to Everyday Abilities Foundation and support its programs.
What we do
Everyday Abilities Foundation is a Berkeley, California 501(c)(3) with three programs: rehabilitation counseling, an Equipment Library for in-person device demos, and a Tech Guide with notes and manufacturer links.
We do not sell products. Counseling is one-on-one, in person in the Bay Area, and beyond by phone or video call. The Tech Guide is information you can browse anytime. The Equipment Library is the smaller set of devices we keep on hand for in-person demos.
People with disabilities (and often family or caregivers) come with questions about work, school, health, relationships, getting around, and daily living.
Our work
Since 2014, Everyday Abilities has worked with people with disabilities in Berkeley and beyond. The work is small and personal by design: one person, one goal, one next step at a time.
Rehabilitation counseling
Walter meets one-on-one with people with disabilities, and often their family or caregivers, in person in the Bay Area, and beyond by phone or video call. Conversations cover work, school, health, relationships, and everyday tasks, and they often turn to whether a device, a demo at the library, or a community resource could help. Counseling is sliding-scale; no one is turned away for inability to pay.
Equipment Library
We keep adaptive equipment that people can see in person, including a TerrainHopper recreational all-terrain vehicle and a BerkelBike. Some items need repair before they can be demonstrated, and donations help cover that work.
Tech Guide and resources
Our Tech Guide explains devices in plain language, with questions to ask a clinician and ways to pay. Our Resources page points to rights, employment, and funding help we trust.
Who we are
Walter Delson is Executive Director and the rehabilitation counselor at Everyday Abilities Foundation. He founded the organization in Berkeley in 2014.
He sustained a spinal cord injury in a motorcycle accident in 1992, when he was 14, and is paraplegic. He majored in philosophy as an undergraduate and earned a Master of Arts in rehabilitation counseling from Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island, in 2010. Walter speaks English, Spanish, and German.
How we work
No sales pitch
When assistive technology comes up, we look at options and try-outs. We do not push a product.
One next step
Leave with something workable to try, not a stack of vague advice.
Where we work
Based in Berkeley, CA. Counseling is in person in the Bay Area, and beyond by phone or video call. The Tech Guide and resource pages are free to browse from anywhere.
How gifts are used
Donations support counseling access, Equipment Library inventory and maintenance, and keeping assistive technology information current. Everyday Abilities Foundation is a California 501(c)(3) (EIN 46-4337288).
Organization
Everyday Abilities operates as Everyday Abilities Foundation, a California 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
everydayabilities.org and everydayabilities.com are the official websites of Everyday Abilities Foundation, a California 501(c)(3) (EIN 46-4337288).
- Legal name: Everyday Abilities Foundation
- EIN: 46-4337288
- Location: Berkeley, CA
- Contact: Contact form
- Official domains: everydayabilities.org, everydayabilities.com
- IRS determination letter: IRS Letter 947 (PDF)