Table of Contents

 

 

 

PART 1

INTRODUCTION AND FRAMEWORK

1

1

Introduction and Overview

3

2

Framework for Assistive Technologies

34

3

Disabled Human User of Assistive Technologies

54

PART 2

SERVICE DELIVERY IN ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGIES

89

4

Delivering Assistive Technology Services to the Consumer

91

5

Funding Assistive Technology Services and Systems

143

PART 3

THE ACTIVITIES: GENERAL PURPOSE ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGIES

177

6

Seating Systems as Extrinsic Enablers for Assistive Technologies

179

7

Human/Assistive Technology Interface

213

8

Sensory Aids for Persons with Visual Impairments

274

9

Sensory Aids for Persons with Auditory Impairments

310

PART 4

THE ACTIVITIES: PERFORMANCE AREAS

335

10

Assistive Technologies for Cognitive Augmentation

337

11

Augmentative and Alternative Communication Systems

370

12

Technologies that Enable Mobility

408

13

Technologies that Aid Transportation

443

14

Technologies that Aid Manipulation and Control of the Environment

460

PART 5

CONTEXTS FOR ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY APPLICATIONS

497

15

Assistive Technologies in the Context of the Classroom

499

16

Assistive Technologies in the Context of Work

525

 

Glossary

545

 

Resources

556

 

Index

559