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 |
| Edition | Fourth edition. |
| Publication | St. Louis, Missouri : Elsevier/Mosby, [2015] |
| Description | xi, 480 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | Cook & 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 note | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2014039969 |
| ISBN | 9780323096317 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 032309631X (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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