Home Area
The home area contains devices that can help with independent living for individuals with various disabilities. These devices facilitate daily living, recreational and social interaction, and computer access. In this area, students can manipulate aids for daily living in four settings: the kitchen, the bathroom, the dining room, and the den.
Through the orientation, students will become knowledgeable about:
- A variety of AT devices for individuals with disabilities used in the kitchen, living room, entrance, and den.
- Requisite abilities of individuals with disabilities to use the devices.
- Benefits of the devices for individuals with disabilities.
- How to manipulate the devices.
Students will also engage in the hands-on activities in subareas of the home setting.
- Kitchen:
- Students sit on the chair and use the reacher to pick up a box on the shelf.
- Den:
- Students sit on the chair, pick up the instruction card of JAWS for Windows program on the desk, and follow steps on the card to manipulate this program.
- Students press the button on the Talking Clock to hear time.
- Students use the Talking Calculator to solve one arithmetic problem.
- Living Room:
- Students place a magnifier on a magazine and read three sentences.
- Students go to the clothes rack, put on a jacket, and take out the zipper pull. With this zipper pull, students can hook the zipper tongue and pull it closed without straining their arm and their back.
- Entrance:
- Students knock on the AT Lab door to see the light flashed for individuals with a hearing impairment.
Click here to see pictures and descriptions of devices and software in the home area.
