Key: Types of Equipment Funded

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.