Assistive technologies : principles and practice /

Cook, Albert M. 1943-

Assistive technologies : principles and practice / Albert M. Cook, Janice M. Polgar. - Fourth edition - St. Louis, Missouri Elsevier/Mosby ©2015 - xi, 480 páginas ilustraciones 29 cm

Preceded by: Cook & Hussey's assistive technologies : principles and practice / Albert M. Cook and Jan Miller Polgar ; author emerita, Susan M. Hussey. 3rd ed. c2008.

Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.

Introduction and framework -- Technologies that assist people who have disabilities -- Activity, human, and context : the human doing an activity in context -- Ethical issues in assistive technology -- Delivering assistive technology services to the consumer -- Making the connection : user inputs for assistive technologies -- Control interfaces for assistive technologies -- Accessing mainstream information and communication technologies: the technology and the web -- Enabling function and participation with seating technologies -- Technologies that enable mobility -- Technologies that aid transportation -- Technologies that aid manipulation and control of the environment -- Sensory aids for persons with visual impairments -- Sensory aids for persons with auditory impairment -- Assistive technologies for cognitive augmentation -- Augmentative and alternative communication systems.

978-0-3230-9631-7 (hardcover : alk. paper)


Aparatos de autoayuda para personas con discapacidad
Personas con discapacidad ---Rehabilitación
Recursos de autoayuda
Self-help devices for people with disabilities
People with disabilities ---Rehabilitation
Self-Help Devices
Disabled Persons ---rehabilitation

RM 698 / C66 2015