Definitions for "Auxiliary Aids and Services"
Devices or services that can be used by a person with a communication-related disability. They include interpreters and communication devices for persons who are deaf or hard of hearing. People who are blind or visually impaired may use readers, taped texts, Braille, etc.
According to the Americans with Disabilities Act, this includes securing qualified interpreters or other devices to make aurally delivered materials accessible to persons with hearing impairments; or securing readers, taped texts, or devices to deliver print materials to persons with visual impairments. Frequently, auxiliary aids include modified equipment or devices.
Devices or services that accommodate a functional limitation of a person with a communication disability. The term includes qulaified interpreters and communication devices for people who are deaf or hard of hearing; qulaified readers, taped texts, impairements; adaptive equipment or similar services and actions for people with other communication disabilities.