RESNA ATP EXAM - Assistive Technology Terms New Update
Impairment - ✔️✔️Any loss or abnormality of psychological, physical or anatomical structure
or function.
DYSARTHIA - ✔️✔️Motor SPEECH DISORDER. Difficult in pronouncing words. mouth
muscles are weak or do not move. may also have respiratory problems. found in stroke and
cancer patients.
APRAXIA - ✔️✔️Oral motor muscles loose function, unable to speak with meaningfull
utterances. DISORDER OF MOTOR PLANNING. LOSS OF LEARNED PURPOSEFUL
MOVEMENTS.
APHASIA - ✔️✔️LANGUAGE DISORDER. UNABLE TO FORMULATE SPEACH. CAN
BE CONGENITAL OR AQUIRED (stroke, TBI, CVA)
MS - ✔️✔️MUSCULAR SLEROSIS
DISORDER OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM. ( GETS WORSE IN WARM
WEATHER)
TROUBLE IN VISION, WALKING, STIFF AND TIGHT MUSCLES.
REHABILITATION ACT 1973 - ✔️✔️FEDERAL FUNDED ASSISTANCE TO PUBLIC
SCHOOLS. TO APPLY REASONABLE ACCOMODATION IN THE LEAST
RESTRICTIVE ENVIROMENT.
A.D.A - ✔️✔️AMERICAN WITH DISABILITIES ACT. PROHIBITS DISCRIMINATION IN
EMPLOYMENT. REQUIRES PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS.APPLIES TO
BUSINESSES WITH 15 OR MORE EMPLOYEES.
DISABILITY - ✔️✔️when impairment leads to inability to perform activity.
ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY ACT 1998 - ✔️✔️PROMOTES AWARENESS OF ASSISTIVE
TECHNOLOGY AND SERVICES. SEEKS TO PROVIDES ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY
TO PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES, SO THEY CAN PARTICIPATE IN EDUCATION,
WORK & DAILY ACTIVITIES.
INTRINSIC ENABLER - ✔️✔️what is known by the Human, ABILITY TO PERFORM
TASK.
SENSORY INPUT
CENTRAL PROCESSING
EFFECTORS - MOTOR CONTROLER
COMPONENTS OF CENTRAL PROCESSING - ✔️✔️PERCEPTION, MOTOR CONTROL,
COGNITION AND PSYCHOLOGICAL FUNCTION
FIXED DEFORMITIES - ✔️✔️AFFECT SKELETAL ALIGNMENT
REQUIRES SEATING THAT ACCOMMODATES
FORCE - ✔️✔️ANYTHING THAT ACTS ON A BODY TO CHANGE ITS RATE OF
ACCELERATION
WHAT ARE THREE TYPES OF FORCE - ✔️✔️TENSION - TWO FORCES AWAY FROM
OTHER.
COMPRESSION - TWO FORCES TOWARD EACH OTHER.
SHEARING - TWO FORCES SLIDING AWAY FROM EACH OTHER.
STATIC EQUILIBRIUM - ✔️✔️WHEN A BODY IS AT REST AND ALL INTERNAL AND
EXTERNAL FORCES ARE BALANCED
DYNAMIC EQUILIBRIUM - ✔️✔️WHEN FORCES ARE BALANCED AROUND THE
BODY DURING MOVEMENT
TORQUE - ✔️✔️A FORCE THAT CAUSES ROTATION OF THE BODY AROUND AN
AXIS MOVEMENT
NEWTONS LAW OF MOTION - ✔️✔️1ST - INERTIA - IS A BODY AT REST UNITL
ACTED BY AN EXTERNAL FORCE.
2ND - ACCELERATION WILL BE DIRECTLY PROPORTIONED TO ANY
UNBALANCED FORCE APPLIED.
3RD - For EVERY ACTION THERE IS AN OPPOSITE REACTION.
DYSPHAGIA & Aphagia - ✔️✔️SWALLOWING IMPAIRMENT.
A GASTROINTESTINAL DYSFUNCTION. Dysphagia has many causes. Any condition
that weakens or damages the muscles and nerves used for swallowing may cause dysphagia.
For example, people with diseases of the nervous system, such as cerebral palsy or
Parkinson's disease, often have problems swallowing. Additionally, stroke or head injury may
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