The best way to relax is to support those parts of the body that hurt.  With moldable cushions, and contoured, support and massage pillows, search through our many soft, comfort-promoting products to give you or your loved ones relief from those aches and pains.

Exercise and stretching will also calm you and keep you from getting stressed during the holidays.  Look to portable exercise equipment and exercise DVDs to keep you or someone on your gift list on a healthy wellness path.  Give a boost of energy with exercises that get blood flow pumping!  Relax, energize and stay healthy with products to stay strong, fit and limber.  

If reading, watching television, and listening to music are your escapes from the holiday craze, MaxiAids has products that enhance hearing and helps with low vision so you can enjoy your books, movies and music.  Products such as text to speech readers, listening amplifiers, and magnifying eyeglasses will enhance your entertainment experience. 

Stay hydrated and energized!  Drinking lots of water is essential to help combat fatigue and achy joints, and will help boost exercise performance. Water delivers oxygen and transports nutrients throughout the body, lubricating the joints, and alleviating aches and muscle cramps from dehydration.  

Keep up with your hobbies and activities that make you feel good emotionally as well as physically.  Staying fulfilled promotes happiness and well-being, enriches our lives, and takes our mind off of stress when we are involved in something we love to do. With lighted magnifying glass, page magnifiers, video magnifiers, tactile, talking and assistive cooking products and other gifts for visually impaired users, these helpful products allow those to continue their hobbies for reading, crafting, cooking and more.  

Making time for yourself will keep you more relaxed and joyful, so that you can give your best self to others!   Stay healthy and well rested, have fun, and experience this holiday season with relaxation and comfort products, sleep aids, visual aids, and gifts for the blind and visually impaired.  MaxiAids is here to help those with low vision, blindness, hearing impairment, and physical challenges live a more rewarding and productive life. --Audrey Leonard

"What can I choose as a holiday gift? I want to help make life easier and more accessible for a loved one who has special needs..."

If it’s a gift for someone who is blind, has low vision, deaf, hearing impaired, arthritic, mobility challenged, aging, or elderly, the idea is to find the right gift to make a difference in that person's daily life.

Let us take the guess work out of your holiday shopping.  Holiday gift giving can be much easier right here at MaxiAids with our wide range of useful products that will help you find just the right item for that special person(s).  Thoughtful and functional gifts go a long way and will prove useful, as we offer many products that will assist in daily challenges inside and out of the home.

Holiday meals and the joy of cooking...

Does your family member or friend with vision impairments enjoy cooking? Make your gift giving a useful one and you will most likely get an invite to their next holiday meal!   Here at MaxiAids we offer products to aid in the kitchen and make food preparation enjoyable again.  With those who have low vision or can't see, products like talking measuring cups, liquid indicators, boil alerts, talking microwave ovens, and other helpful kitchen tools and accessories are sure to bring a smile on their face when receiving a holiday gift as functional as these kitchen and cooking products are. 

The joy of reading...

When reading becomes an issue, why not choose a gift that turns text into speech?  What a great way to give your sight impaired family member a wide range of freedom in reading possibilities!  Open the door to fiction and nonfiction adventures, a favorite author, magazine subscriptions, newspapers, or anything they want to read.  What better way than to cozy up around the fireplace this winter and enjoy a good book while listening to the spoken words, or when out and about they can 'read' the restaurant menus. See our Book Readers, Reading Machines, The Readdesk Lite Plus Scanner Reader Magnifier and The C-Pen Reader Pen Scanner 

The joy of being on time...

How about a talking watch that will keep your loved one right on time?  With so many styles to choose from in all shapes and sizes, MaxiAids' talking watches are our top selling gifts to give all year 'round for those with low vision or sight impairment. Here is a Customer Favorite. Also New at MaxiAids! The Ultimate Talking Watches! If you want a BEST SELLER, select The Reizen Talking Atomic Watch - White Face-Black Numbers-Leather Band or The Talking Atomic Watch - Womens and Kids - Expansion Band or The Talking Atomic Watch - Womens and Kids - Leather Band. There is also The Ultimate Atomic Talking Watch in dual voice or The VocaTime Atomic Talking Watch - Black Case with Leather Band. All Great Watches!

Talking alarm clocks will wake them up and get their day started.  Choose from our large selection, including ones for travel. 

Bed shaker alarm clocks and vibrating bed shakers will alert when it's time to wake up!  Atomic bomb alarm clocks will wake the deepest sleeper.  Functional useful clocks and shakers for the hard of hearing sleeper in your life will "shake and wake" them this holiday season.   

The joy of light and magnification...

Folding task lamps and light up magnifiers are compact and functional gifts that will be appreciated by anyone who has low vision.  Our portable task lamps and light up magnifiers are perfect winning holiday gifts or stocking stuffers for the holiday season.

Save your eyesight!  Choose from MaxiAids' new Wellness Series LED desk and floor lamps and make the healthy eye choice.  

Also our video magnifiers will enlarge the smallest print, allowing those with low vision to help view documents, prescriptions and other important reading materials.  

The joy of better hearing...

When gift buying for those with hearing impairment, MaxiAids offers so many choices for those with hearing loss.  Personal amplifiers help make listening to conversations and watching TV more enjoyable.  As loved ones begin to lose their hearing, do you find they're getting frustrated trying to hear what others are saying and missing parts of the conversations? Or are they blasting the TV volume so loud that it's disturbing others in the room or keeping their partner awake at night?  Our amplifier headphones will allow them to hear better and more clearly without disruptive background noise or disturbing others.  MaxiAids has so many choices of personal amplifiers and TV amplifiers that allow for better and ultra crisp hearing. 

Be part of the conversation again with personal sound hearing amplifiers!

The joy of communication...

Big button cordless phones and speaker phones have large, easy to see numbers, ringer flashing features, photo ID calling options, amplifiers with incoming sounds, emergency features, calling alerts, and are hearing aid compatible. Give the gift of an easy to use phone that is caller ID friendly and stores phone numbers to make calling a breeze.  With so many to choose from, there is a phone that's just right for the specific needs of your loved one. 

The joy of comfort...

Seat cushions, back rests, Sciatica pillows... how about a bit of comfort for those suffering with aches and pains?  Anyone would appreciate gifts that assist in pain relief and offer some loving comfort.  Gifts that help alleviate pain will go a long way and will be greatly appreciated. 

If a family member or friend has arthritis, dexterity issues, or difficulties doing daily tasks, MaxiAids offers products that help make these tasks a little easier. 

Gripeez Ergonomic Built-Up Grip makes eating and brushing teeth easier.   For use with utensils, toothbrushes, razors, etc., these multi-purpose handles easily and instantly create a larger, more comfortable gripping surface-- ideal for arthritis, Parkinson's, and those with limited dexterity issues.

Reachers and grabbers help reach and pick up items pain free, putting almost everything in easy reach.

At MaxiAids, our dressing aids help ease the difficulties of buttoning shirts, putting shoes and socks on, zippering clothes up, etc. We offer button hooks, fasteners, dressing sticks, shoe horns, easy laces, flexible sock/stocking aid, no-bend shoe remover, custom fit belts, leg lifter, zipper pulls and much more!

The joy of mobility...

For those with mobility issues and use a walker, MaxiAids carries rollator and wheelchair accessories, including, mobility lights, baskets, totes, rollator seats and much more!  Convenient products that offer safety and carry belongings from room to room, or attachable lights that light up a path, are the ideal gifts for friends and family members who use wheelchairs, walkers or rollators.  They will truly appreciate the thought you put into gift giving this holiday season.  

Products that make a difference for all year 'round will always be the gift that serves most useful.  Making someone's quality of life improved upon goes without saying... that you have empathized to the needs of someone you love-- and there's plenty of joy in that!

Shop MaxiAids and you will find the right gifts for giving this holiday season.  When it comes to items that aid in the quality of one's life when faced with a disability challenge (or challenges), MaxiAids is the to-go-to source in finding products that help your loved ones live each day to their fullest.

Now those with communication challenges can self-advocate for their preferred communication method.  Developed by Hawaii's State Disability and Communication Access Board (DCBA), the new Communication Access Card is a much quicker, convenient and comfortable way for individuals to show their preferred method of communication. 

A great tool for the deaf, hard-of-hearing, blind and deaf-blind to quickly inform another of one's communication needs, the card helps reduce the frustrations, awkwardness and distressing feelings experienced by those who have communication challenges.  The card is ideal for everyday situations, work, travel, events and emergencies, and will truly help those who face the difficulties and obstacles from others not understanding their needs of alternate communication methods. The card is customized to help break down those barriers and allow for a more productive and understanding conversation.

The card includes the person's name and type of disability with the preferred method of communication: sign language interpreting, writing, texting, lip reading, large print, or the use of assistive listening devices. It will also include tips for people who want to improve their interaction with the card holder.  Individuals who use the card may use it to reveal their preferred communication choice, but the card is not intended for any other purpose (not an official state identification card, not agency affiliated, not numbered or on record).

Communication Access Cards are available in two sizes; standard business card size (3.5 by 2 inches when folded) which easily fits in a wallet or phone pocket and a larger visor-sized card (8.5 by 5.5 inches) to keep in a vehicle’s visor or glove compartment in case of emergencies.  The cards are free at various locations statewide, including the Comprehensive Service Center for People who are Deaf, Hard of Hearing, or Deaf-Blind and Vocational Rehabilitation offices.

MaxiAids provides assistive products and high quality hearing products that help aid those with hearing challenges.    For those who are blind or suffer from low vision, choose from many products we offer for the blind and visually impaired that will help aid in a more independent and better quality of life. --Audrey Leonard

Scott Smiley became the first blind active duty officer and first blind company commander to remain in the U.S. Army after being blinded by a roadside bomb in Iraq during a suicide explosion in 2005.  It took some time for the Officer to accept his new life, but with his supportive and encouraging wife Tiffany by his side, he began to focus on his new life rather than focusing on the hardship.  He wanted to find the good that can come from these challenges, triumph over the loss of his sight, and inspire others in the process. 

• Serve others. "Give back more than we receive." 
• Live with purpose. "No matter what trials and tribulations may face us, if we stay the true course we can live with a purpose."
• Lead by example. "Understand what you're asking others to do.  You shouldn't lead an organization unless you understand the mission."
• Persevere. "Life is worth living.  We all go through trials and hardship. Working through those trials, we all can improve."