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. 2024 Jan 15;17(1):2302208. doi: 10.1080/16549716.2024.2302208

Table 3.

Assistive products and services provided by assistive product.

  # of Organizations Providing …
Assistive Product Product Service*
Alarm signalers with light/sound/vibration 0 2
Audioplayers with DAISY capability 1 2
Braille displays (note takers) 3 5
Braille writing equipment/braillers 3 6
Canes/sticks 6 8
Chairs for shower/bath/toilet 6 8
Closed captioning displays 0 2
Club foot braces 5 6
Communication boards/books/cards 3 8
Communication software 3 6
Crutches, axillary/elbow 11 8
Deafblind communicators 1 3
Fall detectors 0 0
Gesture to voice technology 0 1
Global positioning system (GPS) locators 1 1
Handrails/grab bars 2 6
Hearing aids (digital) and batteries 4 5
Hearing loops/FM systems 0 1
Incontinence products, absorbent 2 2
Keyboard and mouse emulation software 0 2
Magnifiers, digital hand-held 2 2
Magnifiers, optical 3 3
Orthoses, lower limb 6 6
Orthoses, spinal 3 4
Orthoses, upper limb 4 3
Personal digital assistant (PDA) 0 1
Personal emergency alarm systems 0 1
Pill organizers 0 1
Pressure relief cushions 8 5
Pressure relief mattresses 2 3
Prostheses, lower limb 6 5
Ramps, portable 4 5
Recorders 1 2
Rollators 1 2
Screen readers 1 2
Simplified mobile phones 0 1
Spectacles; low vision, short distance, long distance, filters, and protection 2 3
Standing frames, adjustable 5 4
Therapeutic footwear; diabetic, neuropathic, orthopaedic 2 2
Time management products 0 1
Travel aids, portable 1 1
Tricycles 9 10
Video communication devices 0 2
Walking frames/walkers 7 9
Watches, talking/touching 2 2
Wheelchairs, manual for active use 11 10
Wheelchairs, manual assistant controlled 7 6
Wheelchairs, manual with postural support 9 7
Wheelchairs, electrically powered 3 1
White Canes 5 3
Other 4 3

*Service indicates the education, training and fitting of APs listed.