IAAP CPACC STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | COMPLETE CERTIFIED
PROFESSIONAL IN ACCESSIBILITY CORE COMPETENCIES EXAM PREP 2026/2027
Medical Model of Disability - ANS ✔✔Viewing disability as a problem of t he person, directly caused by
disease, trauma, or other health conditions which require sustained medical care.
Social Model of Disability - ANS ✔✔Sees the issue of "disability" to be a socially created problem and a
matter of full integration of individuals into a society.
Economic Model of Disability - ANS ✔✔Defines disability by an individuals inability to participate in
work.
Functional Solutions Model of Disability - ANS ✔✔A practical perspective that identifies the limitations
due to disability with the intent to create and promote solutions to overcome those limitations.
Cultural Affiliation Model of Disability (Social Identity Model) - ANS ✔✔Refers to a sense of deriving
one's personal identity from membership within a group of like-minded people.
Charity Model - ANS ✔✔Regards people with disabilities as unfortunate and in need of assistance from
the outside, with those providing charity viewed as benevolent contributors to a needy population.
Color Blindness - ANS ✔✔A sensory disability that impairs a person's ability to distinguish certain color
combinations.
Blindness - ANS ✔✔Sensory disability resulting in near complete loss of vision.
Low Vision - ANS ✔✔A sensory disability that impairs a person's vision past the point that corrective
lenses can restore past 20/40 or 20/60.
Deafness - ANS ✔✔The total or near loss of hearing.
Hard of Hearing - ANS ✔✔Partially impaired hearing in one or both ears.
DeafBlindness - ANS ✔✔The absence of both vision and hearing. Severely limits the sensory input
possibilities of the individual to just touch, smell, and taste.
Manual Dexterity/ Fine Motor Control - ANS ✔✔Limited motor/manual dexterity may cause difficulty
with:
-Using equipment at work or school
-Communicating using emails, web, or blogs
-Storage and organization of data
-Using computer programs
-Engaging with elearning
Dyspraxia - ANS ✔✔A specific learning difficulty that affects the brain's ability to plan sequences of
movement.
, Ambulation - ANS ✔✔Physical and permanent disability to such a degree that the person is unable to
move from place to place without the aid of a wheelchair.
Intellectual Disability - ANS ✔✔A disability characterized by significant limitations in both intellectual
functioning and in adaptive behavior, which covers many everyday social and practical skills.
Adaptive Behavior - ANS ✔✔The collection of conceptual, social, and practical skills that are learned and
performed by people in their everyday lives.
Social Skills - ANS ✔✔Self-esteem, gullibility, naivete, social problem solving, and the ability to follow
rules/obey laws and to avoid being victimized.
Conceptual Skills - ANS ✔✔Language and literacy; money, time, and number concepts, and self-
direction.
Practical Skills - ANS ✔✔Activities of daily living occupational skills, healthcare, travel/transportation,
schedules /routines, safety, use of money, use of telephone.
Dyslexia - ANS ✔✔A brain-based type of learning disability that specifically impairs a person's ability to
read.
Dyscalculia - ANS ✔✔Severe difficulty in making arithmetical calculations as a result of brain disorder.
Dysgraphia - ANS ✔✔Inability to write coherently, as a symptom of brain disease or damage.
Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) - ANS ✔✔A brain disorder marked by an ongoing
pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsive behavior that interferes with functioning or
development.
Language Based Learning Disability - ANS ✔✔A term used to cover several types of learning disabilities
in which impaired language ability is the common characteristic.
Apraxia of Speech - ANS ✔✔A speech disorder in which a person has trouble saying what they want to
say correctly and consistently.
Autism - ANS ✔✔General terms for a group of complex disorders of brain development.
Speech Disabilities - ANS ✔✔A person with a _________ disability is maybe able to read, write, and
understand language, but mouth structure or neuro-muscular connections do not allow the person to
articulate words.
Aphasia - ANS ✔✔An impairment of language, affecting the production or comprehension of speech and
the ability to read or write.
Reflex Epilepsy - ANS ✔✔Seizures are triggered by repetitive sounds, flashing lights, video games, or
even touching certain parts of the body.
PROFESSIONAL IN ACCESSIBILITY CORE COMPETENCIES EXAM PREP 2026/2027
Medical Model of Disability - ANS ✔✔Viewing disability as a problem of t he person, directly caused by
disease, trauma, or other health conditions which require sustained medical care.
Social Model of Disability - ANS ✔✔Sees the issue of "disability" to be a socially created problem and a
matter of full integration of individuals into a society.
Economic Model of Disability - ANS ✔✔Defines disability by an individuals inability to participate in
work.
Functional Solutions Model of Disability - ANS ✔✔A practical perspective that identifies the limitations
due to disability with the intent to create and promote solutions to overcome those limitations.
Cultural Affiliation Model of Disability (Social Identity Model) - ANS ✔✔Refers to a sense of deriving
one's personal identity from membership within a group of like-minded people.
Charity Model - ANS ✔✔Regards people with disabilities as unfortunate and in need of assistance from
the outside, with those providing charity viewed as benevolent contributors to a needy population.
Color Blindness - ANS ✔✔A sensory disability that impairs a person's ability to distinguish certain color
combinations.
Blindness - ANS ✔✔Sensory disability resulting in near complete loss of vision.
Low Vision - ANS ✔✔A sensory disability that impairs a person's vision past the point that corrective
lenses can restore past 20/40 or 20/60.
Deafness - ANS ✔✔The total or near loss of hearing.
Hard of Hearing - ANS ✔✔Partially impaired hearing in one or both ears.
DeafBlindness - ANS ✔✔The absence of both vision and hearing. Severely limits the sensory input
possibilities of the individual to just touch, smell, and taste.
Manual Dexterity/ Fine Motor Control - ANS ✔✔Limited motor/manual dexterity may cause difficulty
with:
-Using equipment at work or school
-Communicating using emails, web, or blogs
-Storage and organization of data
-Using computer programs
-Engaging with elearning
Dyspraxia - ANS ✔✔A specific learning difficulty that affects the brain's ability to plan sequences of
movement.
, Ambulation - ANS ✔✔Physical and permanent disability to such a degree that the person is unable to
move from place to place without the aid of a wheelchair.
Intellectual Disability - ANS ✔✔A disability characterized by significant limitations in both intellectual
functioning and in adaptive behavior, which covers many everyday social and practical skills.
Adaptive Behavior - ANS ✔✔The collection of conceptual, social, and practical skills that are learned and
performed by people in their everyday lives.
Social Skills - ANS ✔✔Self-esteem, gullibility, naivete, social problem solving, and the ability to follow
rules/obey laws and to avoid being victimized.
Conceptual Skills - ANS ✔✔Language and literacy; money, time, and number concepts, and self-
direction.
Practical Skills - ANS ✔✔Activities of daily living occupational skills, healthcare, travel/transportation,
schedules /routines, safety, use of money, use of telephone.
Dyslexia - ANS ✔✔A brain-based type of learning disability that specifically impairs a person's ability to
read.
Dyscalculia - ANS ✔✔Severe difficulty in making arithmetical calculations as a result of brain disorder.
Dysgraphia - ANS ✔✔Inability to write coherently, as a symptom of brain disease or damage.
Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) - ANS ✔✔A brain disorder marked by an ongoing
pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsive behavior that interferes with functioning or
development.
Language Based Learning Disability - ANS ✔✔A term used to cover several types of learning disabilities
in which impaired language ability is the common characteristic.
Apraxia of Speech - ANS ✔✔A speech disorder in which a person has trouble saying what they want to
say correctly and consistently.
Autism - ANS ✔✔General terms for a group of complex disorders of brain development.
Speech Disabilities - ANS ✔✔A person with a _________ disability is maybe able to read, write, and
understand language, but mouth structure or neuro-muscular connections do not allow the person to
articulate words.
Aphasia - ANS ✔✔An impairment of language, affecting the production or comprehension of speech and
the ability to read or write.
Reflex Epilepsy - ANS ✔✔Seizures are triggered by repetitive sounds, flashing lights, video games, or
even touching certain parts of the body.
