Assistive Technology
Table of Contents
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
Michele 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 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
PROJECT PERSONNEL
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