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Assistive Technology Assessment Handbook

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Assistive Technology Assessment Handbook explores the crucial role of assistive technology in promoting social inclusion for individuals with various disabilities. It offers a detailed overview of assessment tools and the collaborative work of multidisciplinary teams in technical aid centres. The book highlights professional profiles, their interactions, and examines recent technological advancements such as brain-computer interfaces and microswitches.
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Ideal for healthcare professionals, technologists, and researchers specialising in assistive technology and rehabilitation, as well as students pursuing related fields.

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Assistive technology plays a key and fundamental role in facilitating the social integration of people with physical, sensory, communication, and cognitive disabilities. This book presents the scientific power of matching assistive technology along with assessment tools that are essential in a center for technical aid. It describes the skills and functioning of the multidisciplinary team by providing a detailed account of the professional profiles and their mutual interaction. The authors identify the need for professionals of psychotechnology and assessment and review the most recent technological products, including the brain computer interface and the microswitch.

Series: Rehabilitation Science in Practice Series

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781439838655

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 26 March 2012

Country: United States

Imprint: CRC Press Inc

Illustration: 26 Tables, black and white; 67 Illustrations, black and white

Contributors:

  • Edited by Stefano Federici
  • Edited by Marcia Scherer

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 178.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 1060g

Pages: 484

About the Author

Marcia J. Scherer is the President of the Institute for Matching Person and Technology and a Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the University of Rochester Medical Center, New York, USA. Stefano Federici is Associate Professor of Human and Educational Science at the University of Perugia, Italy.

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