cover image - Cook and Hussey's Assistive Technologies - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 3rd Edition
ISBN: 9780323062282
Copyright: 2008
Publication Date: 09-19-2007
Page Count: 592
Imprint: Mosby
List Price: $98.99

Cook and Hussey's Assistive Technologies - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 3rd Edition

by Albert M. Cook, PhD, PE (ret) and Janice Miller Polgar, BScOT, PhD, FCAOT

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cover image - Cook and Hussey's Assistive Technologies - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 3rd Edition
ISBN: 9780323062282
Copyright: 2008
Publication Date: 09-19-2007
Page Count: 592
Imprint: Mosby
List Price: $98.99
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    • Focus on clinical application guides you in applying concepts to real-world situations.
    • Human Activity Assistive Technology (HAAT) framework demonstrates assistive technology within common, everyday contexts for more relevant application.
    • Review questions and chapter summaries in each chapter help you assess your understanding and identify areas where more study is needed.
    • Assistive Technology for Cognitive Augmentation chapter gives you a foundation in the growing use of assistive technology to enhance human cognitive processes.
    • Technologies that Aid Transportation familiarizes you with the many options of transportation assistance available and helps you determine which are right for your clients.
    • Separate chapters on sensory aid for visual and auditory impairment provide additional strategies in these key assistive areas.
    • Bound-in companion CD-ROM features videos of assessment and device use that helps you visualize procedures and reinforce your clinical application skills.
    • Evolve resources test your understanding of terms and concepts and link you to supplemental sources for further research.
    • Additional case studies throughout the text prepare you for practice with realistic client scenarios.
    • Expanded evidence-based content supports concepts with real-world research data.
    • Additional photographs, illustrations, tables, and boxes provide clear visual references and quick access to important information.
  • Part 1: Introduction and Framework

    1. Introduction and Overview

    2. A Framework for Assistive Technologies

    3. The Disabled Human User of Assistive Technologies

    Part 2: Service Delivery in Assistive Technologies

    4. Delivering Assistive Technology Services to the Customer

    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. The Human-Assistive Technology Interface

    8. Sensory Aids for Persons with Visual Impairment

    9. Sensory Aids for Persons with Auditory Impairment

    Part 4: The Activities: Performance Areas

    10. Assistive Technology for Cognitive Augmentation

    11. Augmentative and Alternative Communication Systems

    12. Technologies that Enable Mobility

    13. Technologies that Enable Transportation

    14. Technologies that Aid Manipulation and Control of the Environment

    Part 5: The Contexts for Assistive Technology Applications

    15. Assistive Technologies in the Context of the Classroom

    16. Assistive Technologies in the Context of Work

    Appendix: Resources

    Glossary
  • Albert M. Cook, PhD, PE (ret), Professor Emeritus, Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and Janice Miller Polgar, BScOT, PhD, FCAOT, Professor Emerita, School of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
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