Assistive technologies: principles and practice
Cook, Albert M., 1943- ,
Assistive technologies: principles and practice Albert M. Cook, PhD, PE, Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Janice M. Polgar, PhD, OT Reg. (Ont.), FCAOT, Professor, School of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada. - Fourth edition. - USA Elsevier 2008 - xi, 480 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
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) 032309631X (hardcover : alk. paper)
2014039969
Self-help devices for people with disabilities.
People with disabilities--Rehabilitation.
Self-Help Devices.
Disabled Persons--rehabilitation.
RM698 / .C66 2015
617.033
WB 320
Assistive technologies: principles and practice Albert M. Cook, PhD, PE, Professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Janice M. Polgar, PhD, OT Reg. (Ont.), FCAOT, Professor, School of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada. - Fourth edition. - USA Elsevier 2008 - xi, 480 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
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) 032309631X (hardcover : alk. paper)
2014039969
Self-help devices for people with disabilities.
People with disabilities--Rehabilitation.
Self-Help Devices.
Disabled Persons--rehabilitation.
RM698 / .C66 2015
617.033
WB 320