Gus Chalkias

Gus Chalkias is the Program Director of Assistive Technology Services at HKSB. An assistive Technology Specialist with over twenty years of experience in the field, Mr. Chalkias is a graduate of Hunter College, earning Master’s degrees in both Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling.

Mr. Chalkias began his work in assistive technology at the Computer Center for Visually Impaired People at Baruch college in 2001 and ran the Demo Center project there from its inception in 2009.

Over the course of his career, Mr. Chalkias has developed a number of training programs for both pre-vocational students as well as vocationally oriented clients. These programs include working with both Windows and Mac operating systems as well as for many mobile platforms, using various types of assistive technology. He teaches the Looking Forward course on blindness related assistive technology at New York University through the Ability Project, which he created and developed.

Starting summer 2019, Mr. Chalkias teaches the assistive technology course for the TVI (Teacher of the Visually Impaired) and VRT (Vision Rehabilitation Therapy) programs at Hunter College. He currently sits on the advisory board of the Hunter College Rehabilitation Counseling Program, and recently gave the Key Note at the 2019 Annual NYS AER conference in Syracuse, NY.