Abstract
Assistive technology (AT) can help children with disabilities improve their learning outcomes, social skills, and autonomy, but past work has shown that AT is often abandoned or underutilized in classrooms and at home. However, little research focuses on the perspectives of the AT industry professionals who are supporting children, even though they often provide direct and indirect support to their customers. As such, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 21 AT industry professionals to investigate how AT companies are involved in the successful integration of AT into a child's life. We uncovered three strong needs: (1) improving communication channels between AT industry and support networks, (2) demonstrating the efficacy of AT and (3) exploring long term support of AT.