Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences

This is a 2 credit course offered to occupational therapy students at Boston University.  Additional course information is provided on the CourseInfo website that your instructor will provide for you.

Additional assistive technology on-line resources are provided below

What is Assistive Technology?
Assistive Technology Information Sources

Access to Printed Materials (including Vision-related Assistive Technologies)
Augmentative & Alternative Communication
Computer Access
Electronic Aids to Daily Living
Ergonomics
Funding
Internet
Powered Mobility
Switches & Scanning

Assistive Technology is any item, piece of equipment or product system - whether acquired commercially off the shelf, modified or customized - that is used to increase or improve functional capabilities of individuals with disabilities.

- PL 100-407, Technical Assistance to the States Act

Examples of assistive technologies can be seen in the Additional On-line Resources links. Assistive technologies are one type of intervention that OTs can use to achieve functional outcomes as described below.

Occupational Therapy is the use of purposeful activity or interventions designed to achieve functional outcomes which promote health, prevent injury or disability and which develop, improve, sustain or restore the highest possible level of independence of any indivudual who has an injury, illness, cognitive impairment, psycho-social dysfunction, mental illness, developmental or learning disability, physical disability or other disorder condition. It includes assessment by means of skilled observation or evaluation through the administration and interpretationof standardized or nonstandardized tests and measurements.

- AOTA, 1994

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