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  • Home
  • About AT
    • What is Assistive Technology?
    • Choosing the right Assistive Technology
    • Who pays for Assistive Technology?
    • Funding Guide
  • AT Companies
    • Aids to Daily Living (ADL)
    • Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
    • Education
    • Hearing
    • Prosthetics & Orthotics
    • Software
    • Vision
    • Wheeled Mobility and Seating
  • Journals
  • AT Research Tools
  • Contact

What Is Assistive Technology?

Anything that improves the functional capabilities of persons with disabilities

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What is Assistive Technology?

Assistive technology (AT) is any item, piece of equipment, software program, or product system that is used to increase, maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of persons with disabilities.

  • AT can be low-tech: communication boards made of cardboard or fuzzy felt.
  • AT can be high-tech: special-purpose computers.
  • AT can be hardware: prosthetics, mounting systems, and positioning devices.
  • AT can be computer hardware: special switches, keyboards, and pointing devices.
  • AT can be computer software: screen readers and communication programs.
  • AT can be inclusive or specialized learning materials and curriculum aids.
  • AT can be specialized curricular software.
  • AT can be much more—electronic devices, wheelchairs, walkers, braces, educational software, power lifts, pencil holders, eye-gaze and head trackers, and much more.

Assistive technology helps people who have difficulty speaking, typing, writing, remembering, pointing, seeing, hearing, learning, walking, and many other things. Different disabilities require different assistive technologies.

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AT Disability Types

  • Autism spectrum disorders
  • Blindness and low vision
  • Deafness and hard of hearing
  • Computer access problems
  • Communication disorders
  • Mobility impairment
  • Mounting systems
  • Learning disabilities
  • Cognitive disabilities
  • Web accessibility
  • Augmentative & alternative communication devices

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