The following key provides specific examples of equipment
included within each type of equipment funded.
- Ambulation Aids: includes canes,
crutches, and walkers.
- Architectural Adaptations: structural
fabrications or remodeling in the home, worksite, or other area (including ramps, lifts,
lighting, kitchen remodeling, bathroom adaptations, etc.) that remove or reduce physical
barriers for an individual with a disability.
- Augmentative Communications Devices: electronic
and non-electronic devices that provide a means for expressive and receptive
communications for a person without speech.
- Blind/Visual Disability Aids: magnifiers,
braille output devices, speaker phones, large print books, tapes/audio books, talking
equipment, optical scanners, descriptive video, etc.
- Computers: including computer systems,
keyboards, printers, supplies.
- Computer Adaptations: input and output
devices (voice synthesis or recognition, braille printers), alternate access aids
(headsticks, light pointers), modified or alternate keyboards or switches that enable a
person with a disability to use a computer.
- Computer Software: special software
used for educational or recreational purposes, communication, voice recognition, talking,
large print, special access, etc.
- Deaf/Hearing Disability Aids: speech
output devices, hearing aids, TDDs, telephone adaptations, TV decoders, radio/TV
amplifiers, visual alerting systems, etc.
- Environmental Controls: primarily
electronic systems to assist in controlling various appliances, electronic aids, security
systems, etc., in the home or other surroundings.
- Ergonomic Adaptations: chairs,
arm/wrist supports, back supports or other devices to help improve ergonomic conditions of
using computer technology at home or in the workplace.
- Farm Management Adaptations: auto
hitch devices, hand controls, one-handed tools, modified seating, livestock equipment,
etc., to help manage farm responsibilities.
- Independent Living Aids: self-help
aids for use in activities such as eating, sleeping, bathing, toileting, dressing,
cooking, home maintenance, etc. Includes hospital beds, patient lifts, aids to monitor
personal health.
- Mobility Aids: manual and electric
wheelchairs, mobile bases for custom chairs, strollers, three-wheel scooters and other
utility vehicles for increasing personal mobility.
- Other Educational/Vocational Aids: work
stations/desks, classroom equipment, tools, adjustable tables, literature/books, videos,
etc.
- Prosthetics/Orthotics: replacement or
augmentation of missing or malfunctioning body parts with artificial limbs or other
orthotic aids (splints, braces, helmets, supports, etc.).
- Recreation Aids: crafts, board games,
gardening, toys, electronics, music, modified sports equipment, playground equipment,
hunting/fishing equipment, vacation, travel.
- Seating/Positioning Aids: accommodations
to a wheelchair or other seating system to provide greater body stability, trunk/head
support and an upright posture, and reduction of pressure on the skin surface (cushions,
contour seats, lumbar supports, etc.).
- Switches: wheelchair controls, other
switches, mounting hardware.
- Therapeutic Aids: mats,
rolls/inclines, positioning/strengthening aids, ambulation or balance training, stand
tables, treatment tables, pain relief, hydrotherapy, sexual aids, etc.
- Transportation Aids: adaptive driving
aids, hand controls, wheelchair and other lifts, modified vans or other motor vehicles,
etc., used for personal transportation.
