Master the assistive strategies you need to make confident clinical decisions and help improve the quality of life for people with disabilities with the latest edition of this comprehensive text. Based on the Human Activity Assistive Technology (HAAT) model developed by the authors, the book 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. This new edition has been expanded and updated, and features new multimedia components that further demonstrate how to apply the concepts youve learned to real-world practice.
1. Principles of Assistive Technology: Introducing the Human Activity Assistive Technology Model 2. Technologies That Assist People Who Have Disabilities 3. Activity, Human, and Context: The Human Doing an Activity in Context 4. Ethical Issues in Assistive Technology 5. Delivering Assistive Technology Services to the Consumer 6. Making the Connection: User Inputs for Assistive Technologies 7. Control Interfaces for Assistive Technologies 8. Accessing Mainstream Information and Communication Technologies: The Technology and the Web 9. Enabling Function and Participation with Seating Technologies 10. Technologies That Enable Mobility 11. Technologies That Aid Transportation 12. Technologies That Aid Manipulation and Control of the Environment 13. Sensory Aids for Persons with Visual Impairments 14. Sensory Aids for Persons with Auditory Impairment 15. Assistive Technologies for Cognitive Augmentation 16. Augmentative and Alternative Communication Systems Glossary Index