Assistive Technology

Assistive Technology is defined as any piece of equipment that improves the __________ skills of a person with a disability.

Assistive Technology is widely adopted in schools.

• True

• False

In the article Overcoming Barriers, what type of skills were shown to be good precitors of the successful adoption of Assistive Technolgy with a student?

• keyboarding

• self-awareness

• spelling

• executive functioning

What factors do students and people with disabilities list as important when selecting and using assistive technology?

• That it be discrete.

• That it be the latest form on the market.

• That it be affordable.

• That it be individualized.

This technology, described in the podcast,

• allows a deaf person to hear.

• augments one of the user's senses.

• is widely available as a free app.

The term AAC stands for

• assitive alternative coping

• augmentative and alternative communication

• augmentative and alternative chat

• assitive and applicable communication