Welcome to our Assistive Technology quiz! This quiz will allow you to test your knowledge of various uses of Assistive Technology. Some of these categories were adapted from resources associated with rehabtool.com.

 

Choose the best definition to describe the following AT categories.  Scroll down to check your answers.

1. Communication Aids:

  1. Products that assist people in cognitive skills associated with generating and organizing thoughts (e.g. note-taking, gathering facts, categorizing, identifying patterns, sorting necessary and unnecessary information), as well as memory recall (facts, sequence of tasks or events/schedules). 
  2. Products and equipment designed to help people with speech/language disabilities.
  3. Products designed to assist people who are deaf and hard of hearing access environmental sounds.
  4. Hardware and software products that enable persons with disabilities to access, interact with, and use computers at home, work or school.

 

2. Computer Access Aids:

  1. Products that allow participation or promote creative expression through the arts, such as music composition or improvisation, creation of visual arts (e.g. painting, drawing, sculpture), theatre and dance performance.
  2. Hardware and software products that enable persons with disabilities to access, interact with, and use computers at home, work or school.
  3. Equipment of devices designed to reduce the likelihood of repetitive stress injuries often associated with work related situations.
  4. Replacement, substitution or augmentation of missing or malfunctioning body parts with artificial limbs or other orthotic aids.

 

3. Daily Living Aids:

  1. Devices that assist people with low vision and blindness to access visual information from their environment.
  2. Products that help persons with disabilities to participate in sports, social, and cultural events.
  3. Devices that assist persons with disabilities in daily living activities such as dressing, personal hygiene, bathing, home maintenance, cooking, eating, etc.
  4. Equipment of devices designed to reduce the likelihood of repetitive stress injuries often associated with work related situations.

 

4. Memory/Organization Aids:

  1. Products that assist people in cognitive skills associated with generating and organizing thoughts (e.g. note-taking, gathering facts, categorizing, identifying patterns, sorting necessary and unnecessary information), as well as memory recall (facts, sequence of tasks or events/schedules). 
  2. Hardware and software products that enable persons with disabilities to access, interact with, and use computers at home, work or school.
  3. Products that assist people to learn math facts, follow sequential procedures and directions with multiple steps, take measurements, use computational symbols, count money and make change, do written calculations, conceptualize time, or balance a checkbook.
  4. Adaptations that remove or reduce physical barriers for individuals with disabilities; environmental adaptations that involve building construction, engineering and architecture; also includes environmental controls and switches that can control and entire living environment.

 

5. Environmental Aids:

  1. Products that help persons with disabilities to participate in sports, social, and cultural events.
  2. Devices that assist persons with disabilities in daily living activities such as dressing, personal hygiene, bathing, home maintenance, cooking, eating, etc.
  3. Equipment of devices designed to reduce the likelihood of repetitive stress injuries often associated with work related situations.
  4. Adaptations that remove or reduce physical barriers for individuals with disabilities; environmental adaptations that involve building construction, engineering and architecture; also includes environmental controls and switches that can control and entire living environment.

 

6. Ergonomic Equipment:

  1. Products that assist people to physically write using a pen/pencil/marker/chalk; a computer, drawing slate; other input devices to make writing production easier, more legible, or larger; or to facilitate chance from print to cursive. Additionally, products that assist people to compose written language (grammar, punctuation, organization) along with the editing or revision process; and in spelling (visual patterning, word sorting, word families, proofreading, rule-based strategies, sound-letter correspondence, base forms, suffixes, prefixes).
  2. Equipment or devices designed to reduce the likelihood of repetitive stress injuries often associated with work related situations.
  3. Products that help people with physical disabilities move around their environment, positioning products that provide greater body stability, maintain upright posture and head/trunk support; reduce pressure to the skin.
  4. Hardware and software products that enable persons with disabilities to access, interact with, and use computers at home, work or school.

 

7. Hearing and Listening Aids:

  1. Products that help persons with disabilities to participate in sports, social, and cultural events.
  2. Products that assist people in cognitive skills associated with generating and organizing thoughts (e.g. note-taking, gathering facts, categorizing, identifying patterns, sorting necessary and unnecessary information), as well as memory recall (facts, sequence of tasks or events/schedules).
  3. Products designed to assist people who are deaf and hard of hearing to access environmental sounds.
  4. Products and equipment designed to help people with speech/language disabilities.

 

8. Mobility/Positioning and Transportation Aids:

  1. Products that help people with physical disabilities move around their environment, positioning products that provide greater body stability, maintain upright posture and head/trunk support; reduce pressure to the skin.
  2. Equipment or devices designed to reduce the likelihood of repetitive stress injuries often associated with work related situations.
  3. Adaptations that remove or reduce physical barriers for individuals with disabilities; environmental adaptations that involve building construction, engineering and architecture; also includes environmental controls and switches that can control and entire living environment.
  4. Devices that assist persons with disabilities in daily living activities such as dressing, personal hygiene, bathing, home maintenance, cooking, eating, etc.

 

9. Prosthetics and Orthotics:

  1. Products that help people with physical disabilities move around their environment, positioning products that provide greater body stability, maintain upright posture and head/trunk support; reduce pressure to the skin.
  2. Replacement, substitution or augmentation of missing or malfunctioning body parts with artificial limbs or other orthotic aids.
  3. Hardware and software products that enable persons with disabilities to access, interact with, and use computers at home, work, or school.
  4. Products that assist people to physically write using a pen/pencil/marker/chalk; a computer, drawing slate; other input devices to make writing production easier, more legible, or larger; or to facilitate chance from print to cursive. Additionally, products that assist people to compose written language (grammar, punctuation, organization) along with the editing or revision process; and in spelling (visual patterning, word sorting, word families, proofreading, rule-based strategies, sound-letter correspondence, base forms, suffixes, prefixes).

 

10. Recreation and Leisure:

  1. Products that allow participation or promote creative expression through the arts, such as music composition or improvisation, creation of visual arts (e.g. painting, drawing, sculpture), theatre and dance performance.
  2. Products that help people in the physical act of reading with assistance in tasks such as visual tracking, focusing, left to right orientation, top to bottom orientation, page turning, and book holding; or products that assist people in the cognitive acts associated with reading readiness/early literacy, decoding (word recognition in terms of sight words, phonics, fluency), understanding meaning (vocabulary, listening and text comprehension); and study skills (dictionary use, references such as charts, maps, glossaries, outlining, note taking).
  3. Products that help persons with disabilities to participate in sports, social, and cultural events.
  4. Products that help people with physical disabilities move around their environment, positioning products that provide greater body stability, maintain upright posture and head/trunk support; reduce pressure to the skin.

 

11. Educational Aids: Math:

  1. Products that assist people to physically write using a pen/pencil/marker/chalk; a computer, drawing slate; other input devices to make writing production easier, more legible, or larger; or to facilitate chance from print to cursive. Additionally, products that assist people to compose written language (grammar, punctuation, organization) along with the editing or revision process; and in spelling (visual patterning, word sorting, word families, proofreading, rule-based strategies, sound-letter correspondence, base forms, suffixes, prefixes).
  2. Products that assist people in cognitive skills associated with generating and organizing thoughts (e.g. note-taking, gathering facts, categorizing, identifying patterns, sorting necessary and unnecessary information), as well as memory recall (facts, sequence of tasks or events/schedules). 
  3. Hardware and software products that enable persons with disabilities to access, interact with, and use computers at home, work, or school.
  4. Products that assist people to learn math facts, follow sequential procedures and directions with multiple steps, take measurements, use computational symbols, count money and make change, do written calculations, conceptualize time, or balance a checkbook.

 

12. Vision Aids:

  1. Products designed to assist people with low vision and blindness to access visual information from their environment.
  2. Products that help persons with disabilities to participate in sports, social, and cultural events.
  3. Products designed to assist people who are deaf and hard of hearing access environmental sounds.
  4. Products and equipment designed to help persons with speech/language disabilities.

 

13. Educational Aids: Reading:

  1. Products that assist people to physically write using a pen/pencil/marker/chalk; a computer, drawing slate; other input devices to make writing production easier, more legible, or larger; or to facilitate chance from print to cursive. Additionally, products that assist people to compose written language (grammar, punctuation, organization) along with the editing or revision process; and in spelling (visual patterning, word sorting, word families, proofreading, rule-based strategies, sound-letter correspondence, base forms, suffixes, prefixes).
  2. Products and equipment designed to help people with speech/language disabilities.
  3. Products that help people in the physical act of reading with assistance in tasks such as visual tracking, focusing, left to right orientation, top to bottom orientation, page turning, and book holding; or products that assist people in the cognitive acts associated with reading readiness/early literacy, decoding (word recognition in terms of sight words, phonics, fluency), understanding meaning (vocabulary, listening and text comprehension); and study skills (dictionary use, references such as charts, maps, glossaries, outlining, note taking).
  4. Devices that assist persons with disabilities in daily living activities such as dressing, personal hygiene, bathing, home maintenance, cooking, eating, etc.

 

14. Communication: Writing and Spelling Aids:

  1. Hardware and software products that enable persons with disabilities to access, interact with, and use computers at home, work or school.
  2. Products that assist people to physically write using a pen/pencil/marker/chalk; a computer, drawing slate; other input devices to make writing production easier, more legible, or larger; or to facilitate chance from print to cursive. Additionally, products that assist people to compose written language (grammar, punctuation, organization) along with the editing or revision process; and in spelling (visual patterning, word sorting, word families, proofreading, rule-based strategies, sound-letter correspondence, base forms, suffixes, prefixes).
  3. Products designed to assist people who are deaf and hard of hearing to access environmental sounds.
  4. Equipment of devices designed to reduce the likelihood of repetitive stress injuries often associated with work related situations.

 

15. Creativity Aids

  1. Products that allow participation or promote creative expression through the arts, such as music composition or improvisation, creation of visual arts (e.g. painting, drawing, sculpture), theatre and dance performance.
  2. Products that assist people to physically write using a pen/pencil/marker/chalk; a computer, drawing slate; other input devices to make writing production easier, more legible, or larger; or to facilitate chance from print to cursive. Additionally, products that assist people to compose written language (grammar, punctuation, organization) along with the editing or revision process; and in spelling (visual patterning, word sorting, word families, proofreading, rule-based strategies, sound-letter correspondence, base forms, suffixes, prefixes).
  3. Products and equipment designed to help people with speech/language disabilities.
  4. Devices that assist persons with disabilities in daily living activities such as dressing, personal hygiene, bathing, home maintenance, cooking, eating, etc.

Answer Key:

1. b
2. b
3. c
4. a
5. d
6. b
7. c
8. a
9. b
10. c
11. d
12. a
13. c
14. b
15. a