FINISH STRONG PEDS EXAM V - Chapter 26

Question 1

Any item, piece of equipment, or product system, whether acquired commercially off the shelf, modified, or customized, that is used to increase or improve functional capabilities of individuals with disabilities.

Answer 1

Formal Def of Assistive Technology

Question 2

Team whose potential members are:
child, family/caregivers, educators, classroom assistants, daycare workers, physical therapist, OT, speech language pathologist, vision specialist, audiologist, physician, case worker/social worker, rehabilitation engineer, assistive technology supplier

Answer 2

Assistive Technology Team

Question 3

Anything that helps a person be more functional in daily life. Can be low technology or high technology.

Answer 3

Assistive Technology

Question 4

Any service that assists an individual with a disability in selecting, acquiring, and using an assistive aid or device.

Answer 4

Assistive Technology services

Question 5

This type of approach is necessary for successful assistive technology service delivery.

Answer 5

TEAM approach (GO TEAM!!!) 
COTA and OTR are important members of the team.

Question 6

This term should only be used to refer to aids & devices that are used daily to complete a given task. This type of technology targets function. (The goal is to make technology easy to access.)

Answer 6

Assistive technology

Question 7

Type of technology that is only one aspect of an overall rehabilitation or education program. This type of technology targets dysfunction. (The technology is hard to access in order to challenge the client and is used temporarily.)

Answer 7

Rehabilitative or Educational Technology

Question 8

Technology that is easy to obtain, easy to use, and of relatively low cost.

Answer 8

Low technology

Question 9

More difficult to obtain this technology, requires greater skill to use, and is frequently more costly.

Answer 9

High technology

Question 10

Any aid or device that provides benefit to the user with little to no training or development of skill. (Examples: eyeglasses or orthotics)

Answer 10

Assistive appliance

Question 11

Requires the development of skill (a certain degree of training) in order for it to be of value to the user. (Examples: feeding machines, communication aids, and mobility aids)

Answer 11

Assistive tool

Question 12

True or false: AT assessment is an ongoing process.

Answer 12

TRUE

Question 13

True or false: People with the same disability require the same devices.

Answer 13

False (Example: the same wheelchair is not recommended for every person who needs one.)

Question 14

What is human factors engineering?

Answer 14

Field of study devoted to the interface between man and machines.

Question 15

This describes how a user will interface with an assistive aid or device. The point of contact between the user and the aid or device.

Answer 15

Access

Example: We “access” the computer via a keyboard and/or mouse.

Question 16

A particular location on the body that can be used to operate a device. (Examples: hands, fingers, arms, the head, eyes, legs or feet.)

Answer 16

Control Site

Question 17

What is direct selection?

Answer 17

A straightforward method for making a choice or selection.

(Examples with physical contact: using a finger to type, using hands to operate a joystick for a game, touching a picture to request a drink, & using a head pointer with a mouth stick)

(Example without physical contact: using the eyes to indicate a letter on an alphabet board)

Question 18

Type of selection which requires intermediate steps in order to make a selection. It is slower and more cognitively complex than direct selection. (Example: varying combinations of sip and puff signals used to control the direction of a wheelchair. )

Answer 18

Indirect Selection

Question 19

This refers to toys being modified to enable children with disabilities to participate (and learning is intentionally incorporated into these play activities).

Answer 19

Adapted play

Question 20

Systems that allow an individual to control his or her environment. (Consists of an input device, a throughput method, and some form of output.)

Answer 20

Environmental control unit (ECUs)

Question 21

Used to compensate for a person’s difficulty using speech as a primary means of communication (only one aspect of an individual’s communication system)

Answer 21

Communication technologies (alternative augmentative communications [AAC])

Question 22

This mandates that public schools (1) provide evaluation for AT (2) purchase, lease, or provide for acquiring aids or devices (3) select, design, fit, customize, adapt, repair, and replace aid or device (4) coordinate and use other services with AT (5) train child and family & (6) train professionals.

Answer 22

IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Act)