Ch3: Activity Human and Context

Question 1

Body Structures and Functions

Answer 1

The components of the World Health Organization (WHO) International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health that identify the physiological functions of body systems

Question 2

Capability Theory

Answer 2

Theoretical framework about well-being, development, and justice.
-Claims that the freedom to achieve well-being is of primary moral importance and is to be understood in terms of people’s capabilities, that is, their real opportunities to do and be what they have reason to value.

Question 3

Capacity

Answer 3

Person’s potential optimal performance of an activity given favorable and supportive circumstances

Question 4

Contexts

Answer 4

The portion of the human activity assistive technology (HAAT) model that describes the influence of physical, social, cultural, and institutional environments or contexts on the access to, service delivery, and use of assistive technology

Question 5

Co-occupation

Answer 5

• An occupation in which two or more people are involved that cannot be done by a single person alone
• Ex. Teaching is a co-occupation that involves a learner and a teacher engaging with each other in the occupation of learning

Question 6

Cultural Context

Answer 6

The shared beliefs, practices, values, and meanings that influence acceptance and use of technology

Question 7

Expert

Answer 7

Person who displays a high degree of competence when using an assistive technology device and who is able to use the device in novel ways or across novel situations

Question 8

FAPE

Answer 8

• The right to an education of every child with a disability

- Established under the United States Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)

Question 9

Habits

Answer 9

Behaviors, usually physical but including mental, that are performed at a preconscious level as a result of experience and repetition

Question 10

HAAT

Answer 10

• Model guiding assistive technology research and development, service delivery, and outcome evaluation.
• Consists of four parts: (1) activity, (2) human, (3) context, and (4) assistive technologies

Question 11

IEP

Answer 11

• Mandated by Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the plan, written for each student, incorporates the student’s specialized program.
• The IEP team must consider assistive technologies as a special factor when developing the learner’s IEP

Question 12

Individualized plans for employment

Answer 12

• Written plan, mandated by law under the 1992 Amendments to the Rehabilitation Act, outlining an individual’s vocational goal, and the services to be provided to reach the goal.
• Must include provision for the acquisition of appropriate and necessary assistive technology devices and services

Question 13

Institutional Context

Answer 13

Formal legal, legislative acts, and regulations; policies, practice, and procedures at other institutional levels such as educational, work, organizational, and community settings; and sociocultural institutions such as religious institutions

Question 14

International classification of functioning disability and impairment

Answer 14

-Classification system developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) for coding and classifying elements of the person, activity, and environment to describe the interaction of these elements with a health condition and their collective influence on functioning

Question 15

Leisure

Answer 15

Activities done for recreation, often involving a significant element of choice

Question 16

Lifespan

Answer 16

The time from birth to death; a lifespan approach considers both the commonalities and discrepancies that individuals experience at different ages and stages of life

Question 17

Linguistic Competence

Answer 17

Process of developing and using sufficient vocabulary to enable the use of a device, for example, use of a wheelchair requires linguistic competence related to concepts of direction and space

Question 18

Marginalization

Answer 18

Occurs when the needs of an individual or group for participation in needed or desired occupations are ignored or denied

Question 19

Meaning

Answer 19

• Personal or collective perspective of an experience or situation.
• Influenced by everyday experiences, transactions transactions, and engagement with others (direct and indirect) and interaction with objects in the environment

Question 20

Novice

Answer 20

User who has little to no experience in the use of an assistive technology device

Question 21

Occupation

Answer 21

Everything that people do to look after themselves and others, to contribute to their community and society, and to have fun and relax