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

Author/creator Cook, Albert M., 1943- author.
Other author Polgar, Jan Miller, author.
Format Book
EditionFourth edition.
PublicationSt. Louis, Missouri : Elsevier/Mosby, [2015]
Descriptionxi, 480 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Subjects

Uniform titleCook & Hussey's assistive technologies
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.
General notePreceded by: Cook & Hussey's assistive technologies : principles and practice / Albert M. Cook and Jan Miller Polgar ; author emerita, Susan M. Hussey. 3rd ed. c2008.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2014039969
ISBN9780323096317 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN032309631X (hardcover : alk. paper)

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