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Assistive technologies : principles and practice / created by Albert M. Cook and Jan Miller Polgar.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Elsevier/Mosby, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Edition: Fourth editionDescription: xi, 480 pages : Illustrations ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780323096317 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 032309631X (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • RM698 COO
Contents:
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.
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Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Medical School Open Shelf RM698 COO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 153951 Available BK141017
Book Book Medical School Open Shelf RM698 COO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 153952 Available BK141026
Book Book Medical School Open Shelf RM698 COO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 153953 Available BK141014

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.

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