It doesn't say the money has to come out of precious school dollars.
Educational institutions can develop funding for individuals in two different ways.
They can look for individual funding, or fund an assistive technology program that will then meet the individual needs of its students. One way is no better than the other and neither way is easy. This section offers some examples of ways agencies can build an assistive technology program fund within their agency. If your agency is a state-funded facility, you may have prohibitions about asking for private funds for a special program or project. However, that does not necessarily mean you cannot develop an AT program with private funds.