RESNA ATP EXAM - ASSISTIVE
TECHNOLOGY TERMS QUESTIONS AND
100% CORRECT ANSWERS VERIFIED
BY EXPERT 2025 UPDATE.
1. What is Impairment?
ANS: Any loss or abnormality of psychological, physical, or anatomical structure or function.
2. What is Dysarthria?
ANS: A motor speech disorder. Difficulty in pronouncing words due to weak or immobile mouth
muscles. May also cause respiratory problems. Common in stroke and cancer patients.
3. What is Apraxia?
ANS: Oral motor muscles lose function, making it difficult to speak meaningful utterances. It is
a disorder of motor planning and the loss of learned purposeful movements.
4. What is Aphasia?
ANS: A language disorder where an individual is unable to formulate speech. It can be
congenital or acquired, such as from a stroke, traumatic brain injury (TBI), or cerebrovascular
accident (CVA).
5. What is Multiple Sclerosis (MS)?
ANS: A disorder of the central nervous system that worsens in warm weather. Symptoms include
trouble with vision, walking, and stiff, tight muscles.
6. What is the definition of Multiple Sclerosis (MS)?
ANS: An inflammatory disease of the central nervous system characterized by two or more
lesions separated in time and space.
,7. What is Relapsing-Remitting MS (RRMS)?
ANS: The most common type of MS.
8. What does the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 provide?
ANS: Federal-funded assistance to public schools to apply reasonable accommodations in the
least restrictive environment.
9. What is the ADA?
ANS: The Americans with Disabilities Act.
10. When was the ADA passed?
ANS: 1990.
11. What is the Assistive Technology Act?
ANS: A law that facilitates increased accessibility through technology.
12. What is prohibited under the Assistive Technology Act?
ANS: Funds cannot be used for direct payment for an assistive technology device for an
individual with a disability.
13. What are Tech Act state-level activities?
ANS: State finance systems, device reutilization programs, device loan programs, and device
demonstrations.
14. What did the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 create?
ANS: Workforce investment boards and one-stop service delivery systems, which provide access
to training.
15. What is WIOA?
ANS: Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act.
, 16. What does WIOA improve?
ANS: It improves services to individuals with disabilities, dedicates 15% of state VR funding for
transition services, and increases competitive integrated employment.
17. What is the Rehabilitation Act of 1973?
ANS: It added people with disabilities to the list of Americans protected from discrimination.
18. What is the purpose of the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act
(TWIIA)?
ANS: It strives to make it easier for people with disabilities to work by removing disincentives,
such as allowing the maintenance of Medicare/Medicaid benefits, and establishing community-
based vocational assistance programs.
19. What is Workers Compensation?
ANS: A system that provides medical, lost time, and permanent disability benefits for employees
injured while performing their job, in exchange for their right to sue employers.
20. What is Disability?
ANS: When impairment leads to an inability to perform an activity.
21. What is the Assistive Technology Act of 1998?
ANS: It promotes awareness of assistive technology and services, seeking to provide assistive
technology to persons with disabilities to help them participate in education, work, and daily
activities.
22. What are the components of central processing?
ANS: Perception, motor control, cognition, and psychological function.
23. What are fixed deformities?
ANS: They affect skeletal alignment and require seating that accommodates these deformities.
TECHNOLOGY TERMS QUESTIONS AND
100% CORRECT ANSWERS VERIFIED
BY EXPERT 2025 UPDATE.
1. What is Impairment?
ANS: Any loss or abnormality of psychological, physical, or anatomical structure or function.
2. What is Dysarthria?
ANS: A motor speech disorder. Difficulty in pronouncing words due to weak or immobile mouth
muscles. May also cause respiratory problems. Common in stroke and cancer patients.
3. What is Apraxia?
ANS: Oral motor muscles lose function, making it difficult to speak meaningful utterances. It is
a disorder of motor planning and the loss of learned purposeful movements.
4. What is Aphasia?
ANS: A language disorder where an individual is unable to formulate speech. It can be
congenital or acquired, such as from a stroke, traumatic brain injury (TBI), or cerebrovascular
accident (CVA).
5. What is Multiple Sclerosis (MS)?
ANS: A disorder of the central nervous system that worsens in warm weather. Symptoms include
trouble with vision, walking, and stiff, tight muscles.
6. What is the definition of Multiple Sclerosis (MS)?
ANS: An inflammatory disease of the central nervous system characterized by two or more
lesions separated in time and space.
,7. What is Relapsing-Remitting MS (RRMS)?
ANS: The most common type of MS.
8. What does the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 provide?
ANS: Federal-funded assistance to public schools to apply reasonable accommodations in the
least restrictive environment.
9. What is the ADA?
ANS: The Americans with Disabilities Act.
10. When was the ADA passed?
ANS: 1990.
11. What is the Assistive Technology Act?
ANS: A law that facilitates increased accessibility through technology.
12. What is prohibited under the Assistive Technology Act?
ANS: Funds cannot be used for direct payment for an assistive technology device for an
individual with a disability.
13. What are Tech Act state-level activities?
ANS: State finance systems, device reutilization programs, device loan programs, and device
demonstrations.
14. What did the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 create?
ANS: Workforce investment boards and one-stop service delivery systems, which provide access
to training.
15. What is WIOA?
ANS: Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act.
, 16. What does WIOA improve?
ANS: It improves services to individuals with disabilities, dedicates 15% of state VR funding for
transition services, and increases competitive integrated employment.
17. What is the Rehabilitation Act of 1973?
ANS: It added people with disabilities to the list of Americans protected from discrimination.
18. What is the purpose of the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act
(TWIIA)?
ANS: It strives to make it easier for people with disabilities to work by removing disincentives,
such as allowing the maintenance of Medicare/Medicaid benefits, and establishing community-
based vocational assistance programs.
19. What is Workers Compensation?
ANS: A system that provides medical, lost time, and permanent disability benefits for employees
injured while performing their job, in exchange for their right to sue employers.
20. What is Disability?
ANS: When impairment leads to an inability to perform an activity.
21. What is the Assistive Technology Act of 1998?
ANS: It promotes awareness of assistive technology and services, seeking to provide assistive
technology to persons with disabilities to help them participate in education, work, and daily
activities.
22. What are the components of central processing?
ANS: Perception, motor control, cognition, and psychological function.
23. What are fixed deformities?
ANS: They affect skeletal alignment and require seating that accommodates these deformities.
