Main description:

Master the assistive strategies you need to make confident clinical decisions and help improve the quality of life for people with disabilities with the latest edition of this comprehensive text. Based on the Human Activity Assistive Technology (HAAT) model developed by the authors, the book provides detailed coverage of the broad range of devices, services, and practices that comprise assistive technology and focuses on the relationship between the human user and the assisted activity within specific contexts. This new edition has been expanded and updated, and features new multimedia components that further demonstrate how to apply the concepts you've learned to real-world practice.

Contents:

Part 1: Introduction and Framework
1. Introduction and Overview
2. Framework for Assistive Technologies
3. Disabled Human User of Assistive Technologies
Part 2: Service Delivery in Assistive Technologies
4. Delivering Assistive Technology Services to the Consumer
5. Funding Assistive Technology Services and Systems
Part 3: The Activities: General Purpose Assistive Technologies
6. Seating Systems as Extrinsic Enablers for Assistive Technologies
7. Human/Assistive Technology Interface
8. Sensory Aids for Persons with Visual Impairments
9. Sensory Aids for Persons with Auditory Impairments
Part 4: The Activities: Performance Areas
10. Assistive Technologies for Cognitive Augmentation
11. Augmentative and Alternative Communication Systems
12. Technologies That Enable Mobility
13. Technologies That Aid Transportation
14. Technologies That Aid Manipulation and Control of the Environment
Part 5: Contexts for Assistive Technology Applications
15. Assistive Technologies in the Context of the Classroom
16. Assistive Technologies in the Context of Work
Glossary
Resources
Index