Full title: Assistive technology : matching device and consumer for successful rehabilition / Marcia J. Scherer, editor.

Author/creator: Scherer, Marcia J. (Marcia Joslyn), 1948-.

Call Numbers: N617.03019/1

Record Identifier: 74VvQwRAv6Ol

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: xiii, 325 p. : ill. ; 27 cm., Machine generated contents note: I. THE CONTEXT OF ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY SERVICE -- DELIVERY-- Chapter 1: Evolving Legislation and Public Policy Related to -- Disability and Assistive Technology -- Steven Mendelsohn and Heather Roberts Fox-- -- II. THE USER OF ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY DEVICES AND -- SERVICES-- Chapter 2: Understanding the Person Behind the Technology -- Denise L. Brown-Triolo-- Chapter 3: Personality Assessment in Medical Rehabilitation -- Timothy R. Elliott, Monica Kurylo, -- and M ichele N. Carroll-- Chapter 4: Pain and Its Influence on Assistive Technology Use -- David R. Patterson, Mark Jensen, -- and Joyce Engel-Knowles-- Chapter 5: Satisfaction and Comfort -- Rhoda Weiss-Lambrou-- Chapter 6: Gender and Ethnoracial Differences in the Ownership -- and Use of Assistive Technology -- Diana H Rintala-- Chapter 7: Assistive Technology in the Home and Community -- for Older People: Psychological and Social -- Considerations -- Laura N Gitlin-- Chapter 8: Coping and Adjustment -- Allen W. Heinemann and Theresa Louise-Bender Pape-- Chapter 9: Educating the Consumer and Caretaker on Assistive -- Technology -- Jan C. Galvin and Chandra M. Donnell-- Chapter 10: Enhancing the Appropriate Use of Assistive -- Technology Among Consumers and Caretakers -- Denise G. Tate, Barth Riley, and Martin Forchheimer-- -- III. THE PROVIDER OF ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY DEVICES -- AND SERVICES-- Chapter 11: Assistive Technology and Retraining Under the -- Rehabilitation Act -- Rochelle Balter-- Chapter 12: Telehealth: The New Frontier in Rehabilitation and -- Health Care -- Robert L. Glueckauf, Jeffrey D. Whitton, -- and David W Nickelson-- Chapter 13: Assistive Technology On-Line Instruction: -- Expanding the Dimensions of Learning Communities -- Caren L. Sax-- Chapter 14: The Counseling Process in Assistive Technology -- Evaluation and Selection -- Serenella Besio-- Chapter 15: Partnership and Assistive Technology in Ireland -- Gerald Craddock-- -- IV. A LOOK AHEAD-- Chapter 16: Future Directions in Assistive Technologies -- Albert M Cook-- APPENDIX Tools for Enhancing the Skills of Rehabilitation -- Professionals: Professional Training and Certification -- of Occupational Therapy Practitioners -- Aimee J. Luebben.d Care.

Publishers: Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, c2002.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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DDC: 617.03019

MMS ID: 991014385369702626