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Master the assistive strategies you need to make confident clinical decisions and help improve the quality of life for people with disabilities with the latest edition of this comprehensive text. Based on the Human Activity Assistive Technology (HAAT) model developed by the authors, the book provides detailed coverage of the broad range of devices, services, and practices that comprise assistive technology and focuses on the relationship between the human user and the assisted activity within specific contexts. This new edition has been expanded and updated, and features new multimedia components that further demonstrate how to apply the concepts you've learned to real-world practice.

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• Part 1 Introduction and Framework
• 1 Introduction and Overview
• 2 A Framework for Assistive Technologies
• 3 The Disabled Human User of Assistive Technologies
• Part 2 Service Delivery in Assistive Technologies
• 4 Delivering Assistive Technology Services to the Customer
• 5 Funding Assistive Technology Services and Systems
• Part 3 The Activities: General Purpose Assistive Technologies
• 6 Seating Systems as Extrinsic Enablers for Assistive Technologies
• 7 The Human-Assistive Technology Interface
• 8 Sensory Aids for Persons with Visual Impairment
• 9 Sensory Aids for Persons with Auditory Impairment
• Part 4 The Activities: Performance Areas
• 10 Assistive Technology for Cognitive Augmentation
• 11 Augmentative and Alternative Communication Systems
• 12 Technologies that Enable Mobility
• 13 Technologies that Enable Transportation
• 14 Technologies that Aid Manipulation and Control of the Environment
• Part 5 The Contexts for Assistive Technology Applications
• 15 Assistive Technologies in the Context of the Classroom
• 16 Assistive Technologies in the Context of Work
• Appendix: Resources
• Glossary

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Professor Emerita Janice Miller Polgar works at the School of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada.