Abstract: This paper briefly reviewed the developing process of assistive devices, which is from individual manufacture to batch production and finally to large -scale industry, introduced new concepts in the world concerning assistive devices, accessibility and assistive technology services. Thereby two suggestions about assistive devices in China are put forward in the paper. One is to do assistive technology services in Community-Based Rehabilitation(CBR) well so that to put popular type of assistive devices into the community and home. The other is to train a number of professionals to do assistive technology services and establish service-system of assistive devices to cover the entire country.

Key words: assistive devices, accessibility, assistive technology services