Assistive Technologies- E-Book
Principles and Practice
4th Edition
Published on 14. November 2014
496 pages
978-0-323-29101-9 (ISBN)
Description
- NEW! Global issues content broadens the focus of application beyond North America to include technology applications and service delivery in developing countries.
- NEW! Ethical issues and occupational justice content exposes you to vital information as you start interacting with clients.
- NEW! More case studies added throughout the text foster an understanding of how assistive technologies are used and how they function.
- NEW! Updated content reflects current technology and helps keep you current.
- NEW! Explicit applications of the HAAT model in each of the chapters on specific technologies and more emphasis on the interactions among the elements make content even easier to understand.
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1. Principles of Assistive Technology: Introducing the Human Activity Assistive Technology Model2. Technologies That Assist People Who Have Disabilities3. Activity, Human, and Context: The Human Doing an Activity in Context4. Ethical Issues in Assistive Technology5. Delivering Assistive Technology Services to the Consumer6. Making the Connection: User Inputs for Assistive Technologies7. Control Interfaces for Assistive Technologies8. Accessing Mainstream Information and Communication Technologies: The Technology and the Web9. Enabling Function and Participation with Seating Technologies10. Technologies That Enable Mobility11. Technologies That Aid Transportation12. Technologies That Aid Manipulation and Control of the Environment13. Sensory Aids for Persons with Visual Impairments14. Sensory Aids for Persons with Auditory Impairment15. Assistive Technologies for Cognitive Augmentation16. Augmentative and Alternative Communication SystemsGlossaryIndex
