AyudaTec promotes accessible technologies to provide educational opportunities for students with significant disabilities and all elementary age students in Latin American communities.

In 2006, the owners of IntelliTools, Inc., a successful assistive technology company, accepted an offer to buy the company. Led by Arjan Khalsa, Co-Founder and CEO, they decided to use some of the proceeds from the sale to help others. Mr. Khalsa has a life-long love for Latin America. He first visited Guatemala and Mexico as a boy in the early 1960's and has returned often. He founded AyudaTec to provide literacy technologies to Latin America in order to directly help children and to make the case that governments should invest more in Latin American education for all students.

AyudaTec is a cross-continental alliance of people and organizations who share a common vision to use technology to promote Spanish language literacy for young students and people with disabilities throughout Latin America. Some of our partners include:

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  Alicia Contreras
  project director, from Mexico, a leader in the Latin disabilities movement and a wheelchair user due to childhood polio (Emeryville, CA)
• Doris Baker, PhD
  a leading researcher in the science of teaching reading and writing In Spanish (University of Oregon, Eugene, OR)
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  Claudia Marimón
  a leader in assistive technology and literacy acquisition in Chile (University UMCE & Amancay Rehabilitation Center, Santiago, Chile)
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  Patricia Gutierrez
  a leader in assistive technology and literacy acquisition in Argentina (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• Estela Landeros
  a pioneer in bringing technologies from the USA to underserved communities in Latin America (George Mason University, Fairfax, VA)
• DANE, Nuevo Amanecer, and other organizations that serve people with disabilities using educational technology (Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, and more)
• Steve Rasmussen, Rob McPherson, and David Robertshaw
  educational technology publishers and vendors who serve on the AyudaTec advisory board (Across the USA)
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  Arjan Khalsa
  founder of AyudaTec, co-founder and long time CEO of IntelliTools (San Rafael, CA)

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