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.

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Assistive technology principles. Matching consumers with appropriate assistive technologies -- Contexts : assistive technology at home, school, work and in the community -- Human factors and environmental access -- Service delivery in assistive technology -- Outcomes and performance monitoring -- Funding and public policy -- Technologies for information, communication, and access. Computer access -- Information technologies -- Augmentative and alternative communication -- Integrated systems -- Sensory aids : vision -- Sensory aids : hearing assistive listening aids and signaling devices for the hearing impaired -- Technologies for manipulation. Seating intervention and postural control -- Upper limb orthotics -- Adaptive aids for accessing technology -- Upper-limb prosthetics -- Robotics and manipulators -- Technologies for mobility and locomotion. Lower limb prosthetics -- Wheelchair mobility -- Spatial orientation and individuals with visual impairments -- Driver evaluation and vehicle modification -- Lower limb orthotics -- Technologies for environmental access. Environmental access in the workplace -- Home environments, automation, and environmental control -- Adaptive aids for self-care and child care at home -- Recreation and play environments.

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