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Assistive technologies : principles and practice / Albert M. Cook, Janice M. Polgar.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: St. Louis, Missouri : Elsevier/Mosby, 2014Edition: Fourth editionDescription: 1 online resource (497 pages) : illustrations (some color)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780323291019 (e-book)
Uniform titles:
  • Cook & Hussey's assistive technologies
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 617/.033 23
Online resources:
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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Preceded by: Cook & Hussey's assistive technologies : principles and practice / Albert M. Cook and Jan Miller Polgar ; author emerita, Susan M. Hussey. 3rd edition 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.

Description based on print version record.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.