Assistive technologies : principles and practice /
Cook, Albert M, 1943-,
Assistive technologies : principles and practice / Albert M. Cook, Janice M. Polgar. - fourth edition. - St. Louis, Missouri : Elsevier/Mosby, 2014. - 480 pages.
Preceded by: Cook & Hussey's assistive technologies : principles and practice / Albert M. Cook and Jan Miller Polgar ; author emerita, Susan M. Hussey. 3rd ed. c2008.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction and framework -- Technologies that assist people who have disabilities -- Activity, human, and context : the human doing an activity in context -- Ethical issues in assistive technology -- Delivering assistive technology services to the consumer -- Making the connection : user inputs for assistive technologies -- Control interfaces for assistive technologies -- Accessing mainstream information and communication technologies: the technology and the web -- Enabling function and participation with seating technologies -- Technologies that enable mobility -- Technologies that aid transportation -- Technologies that aid manipulation and control of the environment -- Sensory aids for persons with visual impairments -- Sensory aids for persons with auditory impairment -- Assistive technologies for cognitive augmentation -- Augmentative and alternative communication systems.
9780323096317 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Self-Help Devices.
Disabled Persons--rehabilitation.
RM698
617/.033
Assistive technologies : principles and practice / Albert M. Cook, Janice M. Polgar. - fourth edition. - St. Louis, Missouri : Elsevier/Mosby, 2014. - 480 pages.
Preceded by: Cook & Hussey's assistive technologies : principles and practice / Albert M. Cook and Jan Miller Polgar ; author emerita, Susan M. Hussey. 3rd ed. c2008.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction and framework -- Technologies that assist people who have disabilities -- Activity, human, and context : the human doing an activity in context -- Ethical issues in assistive technology -- Delivering assistive technology services to the consumer -- Making the connection : user inputs for assistive technologies -- Control interfaces for assistive technologies -- Accessing mainstream information and communication technologies: the technology and the web -- Enabling function and participation with seating technologies -- Technologies that enable mobility -- Technologies that aid transportation -- Technologies that aid manipulation and control of the environment -- Sensory aids for persons with visual impairments -- Sensory aids for persons with auditory impairment -- Assistive technologies for cognitive augmentation -- Augmentative and alternative communication systems.
9780323096317 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Self-Help Devices.
Disabled Persons--rehabilitation.
RM698
617/.033