High Technology Aids for the Disabled

Part I Assessment of Disability

Introduction


1 Assessment of Function, Disability and Cost of Joint Replacement


2 Evaluating the Mobility of Blind Pedestrians


3 Assessment of Disability Due to Hearing Impairment


4 Assessing Audiovisual Speech-Reception Disability


5 A Video Aid to Assessment and Retraining of Standing Balance


6 New Aids for the Blind and Deaf-Blind

Discussion

Part II Replacement of Function

Introduction


7 Neural-Implantation Techniques for Disability


8 Life, Size and Complexity in Neurological Prostheses


9 The Potential for Percutaneous Optical Control of Implants for Therapeutic Stimulation


10 Dorsal-Column Stimulation in Multiple Sclerosis


11 A Wrist-Worn, Sensory Electrical Substitution Aid for the Profoundly Deaf


12 Strategies for High-Technology Hearing Aids to Compensate for Hearing Impairment of Cochlear Origin


13 Speech-Signal Presentation to the Totally Deaf


14 Problems in Realizing the Potential of Integrated Circuits in Future Aids for the Hearing-Impaired

Discussion

Part III Reduction of Handicap Using Computer Technology

Introduction


15 Microprocessor Computing and Interface Systems for the Severely Physically Disabled


16 Design Criteria for the Development of Dedicated Communication Aids


17 Voice-Operated Control for High-Level Tetraplegia


18 The Newcastle 'Handisystem'


19 Software-Adaptable Input Controls to a Microcomputer System for Physically Handicapped Children


20 Computer-Based Speech-Training Aids for the Deaf


21 The Sonic Pathfinder - a New Travel Aid for the Blind


22 Microcomputer Aids for the Disabled


23 Autism — Using a 'Turtle' to Establish Communication


24 Teaching Writing Skills to Handicapped Children


25 Computer Aids for Rehabilitation and Education (CARE)

Discussion

Part IV Collaboration with User Organizations in the Development of Technological Aids

Introduction

General Considerations of the Way Ahead

Subject Index