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• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. Principles of Assistive Technology: Introducing the Human Activity Assistive Technology Model
• Introduction
• Constructs of Disability in Key Documents
• Definitions of Assistive Technology
• Principles of Assistive Technology Service Delivery
• The Human Activity Assistive Technology Model
• Application of the Human Activity Assistive Technology Model
• Summary
• Chapter 2. Technologies That Assist People Who Have Disabilities
• The Changing World of Assistive Technologies and Its Impact on Persons with Disabilities
• Universal Design
• A Functional Framework for Assistive Technologies
• Summary
• Chapter 3. Activity, Human, and Context: The Human Doing an Activity in Context
• Introduction
• Activity
• The Human User
• Context
• Integrating the Human Doing in Context
• Bringing in Assistive Technology
• Reassembling the Haat Model
• Summary
• Chapter 4. Ethical Issues in Assistive Technology
• Introduction
• The Ethical Context
• Application of Ethical Concepts in Assistive Technology
• Ambient Environments, Artificial Intelligence, and Robots: Impact on Care
• Equitable Assistive Technology Distribution of Assistive Technology: Who Gets What?
• Professional Ethics
• Summary
• Chapter 5. Delivering Assistive Technology Services to the Consumer
• Introduction
• Principles of Assistive Technology Assessment and Intervention
• Overview of Service Delivery in Assistive Technology
• Evaluating the Effectiveness of Assistive Technology Services and Systems
• A Final Word about Funding
• Summary
• Chapter 6. Making the Connection: User Inputs for Assistive Technologies
• Activity: Enabling Participation
• Human: Anatomic Sites for Control of Assistive Technologies
• Assistive Technology: Connecting the User to the Technology
• Speech: a Human/Technology Interface Output
• Context
• Assessment
• Outcomes
• Summary
• Chapter 7. Control Interfaces for Assistive Technologies
• Activity: Enabling Participation
• Human Skills for Control: Characteristics of Controlled Movements
• Assistive Technology: Characteristics of Control Interfaces
• Control Interfaces for Direct Selection
• Standard and Alternative Electronic Pointing Interfaces
• Using Pointing Interfaces for Direct Selection
• Control Interfaces for Indirect Selection
• Context
• Assessment
• Outcomes: is it working? Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Control Interface
• Summary
• Chapter 8. Accessing Mainstream Information and Communication Technologies: The Technology and the Web
• Activity: Accessing the Information Highway
• Assistive Technology: Input Accessibility for Mainstream Technologies
• Cross-Platform Accessibility
• Computer Access
• Access to Phones and Tablets
• Mounting
• Context
• Assessment
• Outcomes
• Summary
• Chapter 9. Enabling Function and Participation with Seating Technologies
• Introduction
• Activity
• Human
• Context
• Assistive Technologies for Seating and Positioning
• Seating Technologies
• Seating Assessment
• Intervention
• Outcome Evaluation
• Summary
• Chapter 10. Technologies That Enable Mobility
• Activity Component
• Human Component
• Context Components
• Assessment for Wheeled Mobility
• Assistive Technology
• Smart Wheelchairs
• Wheelchair Standards
• Implementation and Training for Manual and Powered Mobility
• Outcome Evaluation
• Summary
• Chapter 11. Technologies That Aid Transportation
• Activity
• Human
• Context
• Assistive Technology
• Safe Transportation of Individuals in Wheelchairs
• Technologies for Transportation and Driving
• Assessment
• Outcome Evaluation
• Summary
• Chapter 12. Technologies That Aid Manipulation and Control of the Environment
• Activity Component
• Human Component
• Context Component
• Low-Technology Aids for Manipulation
• Special-Purpose Electromechanical Aids for Manipulation
• Electronic Aids to Daily Living
• Robotic Aids to Manipulation
• Assessment for Use of Manipulation Aids
• Outcomes of Eadl Use
• Summary
• Chapter 13. Sensory Aids for Persons with Visual Impairments
• Activity Component
• Human Component
• Assistive Technologies for Vision
• Mobility and Orientation Aids for Persons with Visual Impairments
• Context Component
• Assessment
• Outcomes
• Summary
• Chapter 14. Sensory Aids for Persons with Auditory Impairment
• Activity Component
• Human Component
• Fundamental Approaches to Auditory Sensory Aids
• Aids for Persons with Auditory Impairments
• Context Component
• Assessment
• Summary
• Chapter 15. Assistive Technologies for Cognitive Augmentation
• Activity Component
• Human Component
• Disorders that may Benefit from Cognitive Assistive Technologies
• Assistive Technologies that Address Cognitive Needs
• Context Component
• Assessment
• Outcomes
• Summary
• Chapter 16. Augmentative and Alternative Communication Systems
• Activity Component
• Human Component
• Context Component
• Assistive Technologies for Alternative and Augmentative Communication
• Augmentative and Alternative Communication Evaluation and Assessment
• Outcomes
• Summary
• Resources for further information (courtesy of Gallaudet University)
• Glossary
• Index