AT Basics
HAAT is an acronym for this model.
What is the Human Activity Assistive Technology Model?
There are two types of control interfaces for AT: Direct and indirect selection. This one is faster and more efficient.
What is direct selection?
Professor Eric Lantz demonstrated a device that creates something that looks like a weather forecast. It was called this.
What is pressure mapping?
This is the most common mobility device for individuals with visual impairments.
What is the long cane?
Grandma Pulley stoops over her walker as she moves around the senior center. This modification can help her know how to get to her bridge club.
What is lowered signs?
SETT is an abbreviation for this framework.
What is Student, Environments, Tasks, and Tools?
This switch can be used by a patient with a high level SCI to access AT devices.
What is a head array?
Pressure ulcers have four stages of development. This one is partial thickness with an open ulcer or sore.
What is stage II?
Low vision aids include these three categories.
What are optical aids, nonoptical aids, and electronic aids?
Joey has an SCI at level T4. You are Joey's OT who is assessing his ability to drive again. Your recommendation for the safest seating system is this.
What is accessibility for all regardless of ability?
This AAC access is best used when someone has good breath support and good articulation.
What is speech recognition?
Power wheelchairs have three drive wheel locations. This one provides the most maneuverability in tight spaces.
What is mid-wheel drive?
These devices allow individuals with low vision to see print, do work requiring fine detail, or increase the range of their visual field.
What are optical aids?
What is a Move United?
You completed an LMN for a new wheelchair for your patient. The insurance will pay for either a full lap tray or a half lap tray. You do this to decide.
What is collaborate with the client to ensure client-centered treatment?
Three methods of activation for wheelchairs.
What are movement, respiration, and phonation?
Of sensitivity, gender, socioeconomic status, age, and co-morbidities, this one does not factor into an increased risk for pressure sores.
What is gender?
What is augment?
This category of AT to aid in cognitive functioning provides procedural or navigational sequencing for a task and can be visual or auditory in nature.
What is prompting or cueing?
The OTPF describes these as observable actions with implicit functional purpose.
What are performance skills?
These devices help a person with limited mobility turn on/off lights, adjust the TV volume, and turn pages of a book.
What are electronic aids to activities of daily living or EADLs?
Your patient has a fixed pelvis with a pelvic obliquity and trunk rotation. Your clinical recommendation for seating is this.
What is accommodate with cushions and positioning devices?
Visual pathways provide spatial organization. These alternative sensory pathways provide temporal organization, and spatiotemporal organization, respectively.
What are auditory and tactile systems?
Katie recently underwent carpal tunnel release of bilateral wrists for a repetitive work injury. She returned to her job as a computer programmer where she spends eight hours a day typing on the computer. You have been brought in to assess Katie's work environment. You see two possibilities which are these.
What is (1) adapt her job responsibilities or (2) provide her alternatives to typing?