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Edited By
Don Olson, PhD, Associate Professor, Department Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern University Medical Schools; Director, Dixon Education
and Training, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Frank DeRuyter, PhD, Director and Associate Professor, Speech Pathology and Audiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
Description
This useful resource is designed to offer healthcare professionals specific information about the diverse area of assistive technology.
It covers the variety of technology available and explains the adaptations of the technology, as well as how different devices work together.
The first section provides the fundamentals of assistive technology, discussing issues such as life span considerations, environmental
context, and funding and public policy. The next section delves into topics especially relevant for patient care, including computer
access and alternative communication. Sections on manipulation, ambulation, and locomotion technologies are discussed next, concentrating
on devices that assist with upper and lower body function. This text ends with a discussion of technologies for environments in the real
world.
Audience
Allied health professionals, occupational & physical therapists, speech-language pathologists, recreational therapists, social workers,
nurses and nurse practitioners, individuals working with prosthetics/orthotics.
Contents
Section I: Assistive Technology Principles
Introduction
Chapter 1 Matching Consumers Across the Life Span with
the Most Appropriate Assistive Technologies
Chapter 2: Contexts: Assistive Technology at Home, School, and Work, and in the
Community
Chapter 3: Human Factors and Environmental Access
Chapter 4: Assistive Technology Service Delivery
Chapter 5: Outcomes
Chapter
6: Funding and Public Policy
Section II: Technologies for Information, Communication and Access
Introduction
Chapter 7: Computer Access
Chapter 8: Information Technologies
Chapter 9: Augmentative/Alternative Communication
Chapter
10: Integrated Systems
Chapter 11: Sensory Aids: Vision
Chapter 12: Sensory Aids: Hearing
Section III: Technologies
for Manipulation
Introduction
Chapter 13: Seating Intervention and Postural Control
Chapter 14: Upper Limb Orthotics
Chapter
15: Adaptive Aids
Chapter 16: Upper Limb Prosthetics
Chapter 17: Robotics/Manipulators
Section IV: Technologies
for Ambulation and Locomotion
Introduction
Chapter 18: Lower Limb Prosthetics
Chapter 19: Wheelchair Mobility
Chapter
20: Spatial Orientation and Wayfinding
Chapter 21: Driver Evaluation and Vehicle Modification
Chapter 22: Lower Limb Orthotics
Section
V: Technologies for Environmental Access
Introduction
Chapter 23: Environmental Access in the Workplace
Chapter 24:
Home Environments, Automation, and Environmental Control
Chapter 25: Adaptive Aids for Self-care and Child-care
Chapter 26: Recreation/Play
Environments.
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 485 pages, publication date: SEP-2001
ISBN-13: 978-0-8151-4601-8
ISBN-10: 0-8151-4601-9
Imprint: MOSBY
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Last update: 30 Nov 2009
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