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cover image - Cook and Hussey's Assistive Technologies - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource,4th Edition
ISBN: 9780323096324
Copyright: 2015
Publication Date: 12-04-2014
Page Count: 496
Imprint: Mosby
List Price: $90.95

Cook and Hussey's Assistive Technologies - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 4th Edition

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

Elsevier eBook on VitalSource

cover image - Cook and Hussey's Assistive Technologies - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource,4th Edition
ISBN: 9780323096324
Copyright: 2015
Publication Date: 12-04-2014
Page Count: 496
Imprint: Mosby
List Price: $90.95
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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.

    • 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.
    • NEW! Global issues content broadens the focus of application beyond North America to include technology applications and service delivery in developing countries.
    • NEW! Ethical issues and occupational justice content exposes you to vital information as you start interacting with clients.
    • NEW! More case studies added throughout the text foster an understanding of how assistive technologies are used and how they function.
    • NEW! Updated content reflects current technology and helps keep you current.
    • NEW! Explicit applications of the HAAT model in each of the chapters on specific technologies and more emphasis on the interactions among the elements make content even easier to understand.
  • 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
    Glossary
    Index
  • Albert M. Cook, PhD, PE, 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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