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Assistive Technologies

Principles and Practice

  • 4th Edition - November 14, 2014
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Albert M. Cook, Janice Miller Polgar
  • Language: English

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It’s here: the latest edition of the one text you need to master assistive strategies, make confident clinical decisions, and help improve the quality of life for people with disabilities. Based on the Human Activity Assistive Technology (HAAT) model, Assistive Technologies: Principles and Practice, 4th Edition 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. Updated and expanded, this new edition features coverage of new ethical issues, more explicit applications of the HAAT model, and a variety of global issues highlighting technology applications and service delivery in developing countries.

Key features

  • Human Activity Assistive Technology (HAAT) framework
    •  demonstrates assistive technology within common, everyday contexts for more relevant application.
  • Focus on clinical application guides you in applying concepts to real-world situations.
  • Review questions and chapter summaries in each chapter help you assess your understanding and identify areas where more study is needed.
  • Content on the impact of AT on children and the role of AT in play and education for children with disabilities demonstrates how AT can be used for early intervention and to enhance development.
  • Coverage of changing AT needs throughout the lifespan emphasizes how AT fits into people’s lives and contributes to their full participation in society.
  • Principles and practice of assistive technology provides the foundation for effective decision-making.

Table of contents

1. Principles of Assistive Technology: Introducing the Human Activity Assistive Technology Model

2. Technologies That Assist People Who Have Disabilities

3. Activity, Human, and Context: The Human Doing an Activity in Context

4. Ethical Issues in Assistive Technology

5. Delivering Assistive Technology Services to the Consumer

6. Making the Connection: User Inputs for Assistive Technologies

7. Control Interfaces for Assistive Technologies

8. Accessing Mainstream Information and Communication Technologies: The Technology and the Web

9. Enabling Function and Participation with Seating Technologies

10. Technologies That Enable Mobility

11. Technologies That Aid Transportation

12. Technologies That Aid Manipulation and Control of the Environment

13. Sensory Aids for Persons with Visual Impairments

14. Sensory Aids for Persons with Auditory Impairment

15. Assistive Technologies for Cognitive Augmentation

16. Augmentative and Alternative Communication Systems
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Product details

  • Edition: 4
  • Latest edition
  • Published: December 4, 2014
  • Language: English

About the authors

AC

Albert M. Cook

Professor Emeritus Albert M. Cook, Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emeritus, Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

JP

Janice Miller Polgar

Professor Emerita Janice Miller Polgar works at the School of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emerita, School of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

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