This paper aims to explore the essential indicators and procedures for assessing the performance of pointing devices for people with disabilities, by reviewing the related studies. The authors analyzed 21 studies searched from the electronic databases. The results of reviewing indicated that the major subjects in these studies were people with physical disabilities; most of these studies aimed to compare the performance between devices, usually comparing with mouse; the performance of task of pointing and selecting was explored popularly with accuracy and total time served as indicators. In addition, selecting devices without objective assessment procedure and lacking tools to assess functional tasks were also found in these studies. The authors also provide some suggestions for the studies in the future.