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Categories of Assistive Technology
Aids for Daily Living – self help aids for use in activities such as eating, bathing, cooking, dressing, toileting, and home maintenance.
Augmentative Communication – electronic and non-electronic devices that provide a means for expressive and receptive communication for persons with limited speech.
Computer Applications – input and output devices (voice, Braille), alternative access aids (headsticks, light pointers), modified or alternative keyboards, switches, special software, and other devices that enable people with disabilities to use a computer.
Environmental Control Systems – primarily electronic systems that enables someone without mobility to control various devices such as appliances, electronic aids, and security systems in the home or other surroundings.
Home/Worksite Modifications – structural adaptations, fabrications in the home, worksite or other areas (ramps, lifts, bathroom changes) that remove or reduce physical barriers.
Prosthetics and Orthotics – replacements, substitutions or augmentation of missing or malfunctioning body parts with artificial limbs or other orthotic aids (splints, braces, etc.)
Seating and Positioning – accommodations to a wheelchair or other seating systems to provide greater body stability, trunk/head support and upright posture and reduction of pressure on the skin surface (cushions, contours seats, lumbar supports.)
Telecommunications – aids such as magnifiers, Braille and speech output devices, large print screens, hearing aids, TDD’s and visual alerting systems.
Ambulation/Mobility Aids – manual and electric wheelchairs, mobile bases for custom chairs, walkers, three-wheel scooters and other utility vehicles used for transportation.
Vehicle Modification – adapting driving aids, hand controls, wheelchairs and other lifts, modified vans or other motor vehicles used for personal transportation.