Assistive technologies: Principles and practice

Assistive Technologies: Principles & Practice provides detailed coverage of the broad range of devices, services, and practices that comprise assistive technology. This new text offers a systematic process for ensuring the effective application of assistive technologies and focuses on the relationship between the human user and the assisted activity within specific contexts.

Assistive technologies: Principles and practice

Cook, Albert M.

Elsevier

2015

Abstract

Assistive Technologies: Principles & Practice provides detailed coverage of the broad range of devices, services, and practices that comprise assistive technology. This new text offers a systematic process for ensuring the effective application of assistive technologies and focuses on the relationship between the human user and the assisted activity within specific contexts. It features over 30 new photos and illustrations, as well as, updated chapters and case studies that reflect current technology.

Introductory book principles of assistive technology: Introducing the human activity assistive technology model; 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 impaiments; sensory aids for persons with auditory impairment; assistive technologies for cognitive augmentation; augmentative and alternative communication systems.

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Cook, Albert M.. Assistive technologies: Principles and practice. Elsevier, 2015.

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