Assistive Technologies: Principles and Practice, 4e

✍ Scribed by Albert M. Cook PhD PE, Janice Miller Polgar PhD OT

• Publisher: Mosby
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 486
• Edition: 4
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

It’s here: the latest edition of the one text you need to master assistive strategies, make confident clinical decisions, and help improve the quality of life for people with disabilities. Based on the Human Activity Assistive Technology (HAAT) model, Assistive Technologies: Principles and Practice, 4th Edition provides detailed coverage of the broad range of devices, services, and practices that comprise assistive technology, and focuses on the relationship between the human user and the assisted activity within specific contexts. Updated and expanded, this new edition features coverage of new ethical issues, more explicit applications of the HAAT model, and a variety of global issues highlighting technology applications and service delivery in developing countries.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
Dedication, Page v
Preface, Pages vii-viii
Acknowledgments, Pages ix-x
Chapter 1 - Principles of Assistive Technology: Introducing the Human Activity Assistive Technology Model, Pages 1-15
Chapter 2 - Technologies that Assist People Who Have Disabilities, Pages 16-39
Chapter 3 - Activity, Human, and Context: The Human Doing an Activity in Context, Pages 40-67
Chapter 4 - Ethical Issues in Assistive Technology, Pages 68-87
Chapter 5 - Delivering Assistive Technology Services to the Consumer, Pages 88-116
Chapter 6 - Making the Connection: User Inputs for Assistive Technologies, Pages 117-138
Chapter 7 - Control Interfaces for Assistive Technologies, Pages 139-170
Chapter 8 - Accessing Mainstream Information and Communication Technologies: The Technology and the Web, Pages 171-195
Chapter 9 - Enabling Function and Participation with Seating Technologies, Pages 196-228
Chapter 10 - Technologies that Enable Mobility, Pages 229-262
Chapter 11 - Technologies That Aid Transportation, Pages 263-283
Chapter 12 - Technologies That Aid Manipulation and Control of the Environment, Pages 284-313
Chapter 13 - Sensory Aids for Persons with Visual Impairments, Pages 314-351
Chapter 14 - Sensory Aids for Persons with Auditory Impairment, Pages 352-374
Chapter 15 - Assistive Technologies for Cognitive Augmentation1, Pages 375-410
Chapter 16 - Augmentative and Alternative Communication Systems, Pages 411-456
Resources for further information (courtesy of Gallaudet University)1, Page 457
Glossary, Pages 459-470
Index, Pages 471-480