Master the assistive strategies you need to make confident clinical decisions and help improve the quality of life for people with disabilities. Based on the Human Activity Assistive Technology (HAAT) model developed by Albert Cook, Sue Hussey, and Janice Polgar, Assistive Technologies:: Principles and Practice, 6th Edition, provides detailed coverage of the broad range of devices, services, and practices that comprise assistive technology. This 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. New to this edition is updated and expanded content on autonomous features of wheelchairs and vehicles, electronic aids to daily living, robotics, sustainability issues related to assistive technology, and much more.
1. Principles of Assistive Technology 2. The Human Activity Assistive Technology Model 3. Global Perspectives on Assistive Technology 4. Ethical Issues in Assistive Technology 5. Assistive Technology Service Delivery 6. Human-Technology Interface 7. Access to Mainstream Information and Communication Technologies 8. Mobility Technologies: Seating 9. Mobility Technologies: Personal Mobility 10. Mobility Technologies: Transportation 11. Manipulation Technologies: Aids to Daily Living 12. Manipulation Technologies: Robotics 13. Cognition Technologies 14. Augmentative and Alternative Communication Systems
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