Adaptive Design Association envisions a day when Adaptive Design Centers are operating in communities, schools, and organizations everywhere; and when all people with disabilities are fully educated, employed, and valued, in every family, society, and country.

• Challenge assumptions about disability.

• Generate awareness that the vast majority of children and adults with disabilities need more adaptations than they currently receive.

• Help teachers, therapists, and parents transform ideas into requests for child-specific adaptations through hands-on learning.

• Contribute to skills training and job creation for US Veterans, the transitional workforce, and the unemployed.

• Use the most affordable, safe, and durable building materials available, including triple-wall corrugated cardboard, wood, fabric, plastics, and electronics.

• Advance the practical application of science, technology, art, engineering, and mathematics.

• Provide Service-Learning opportunities for high school, college, and graduate students.

• Collaborate with colleges and universities to develop Adaptive Design courses and degree programs, for educators, clinicians, designers, and other related professions.

• Encourage research studies on the impact user-specific adaptations have on those who use, those who request, and those who build them.​

• Coordinate information sharing through courses, articles, videos, and on-line programs, thus creating a thriving “Association” of Adaptive Design Centers and Adaptive Design Practitioners.​