For people with severe/profound and multiple disabilities,
managing the basic necessities of daily life often poses myriad
challenges. Despite great odds, advances in assistive technology
are making a difference in these individuals' lives. Advances in
microswitches, voice outcome communication aids, and computer-based
systems are creating new opportunities for living independently,
improving basic life skills, and reducing problem behaviors among
individuals with combined motor, sensory, and intellectual
disabilities.
This unique volume examines how education and rehabilitation can
improve the lives of even those individuals most affected by
severe/profound and multiple disabilities. Interventions currently
in use and in experimental stages are surveyed in terms of how they
work and their applicability to clients with various needs. In
addition, it examines the characteristics of developmentally
disabled populations and offers guidelines for choosing suitable
technologies. It presents empirical evidence on the advances in
improving interaction with caregivers, control of the home
environment, handling self-care tasks, and other core skills.
"Assistive Technology" examines interventions that are
innovative, respectful of the dignity of clients, and practical for
ongoing use, including:
Microswitches in habilitation programs.
Speech-generating devices for communication and social
development.
Instructional technology for promoting academic, work, and leisure
skills.
Assistive technology for promoting ambulation.
Orientation systems for promoting movement indoors.
Assistive technology for reducing problem behaviors.
A state-of-the-art guide to a growing field, "Assistive
Technology" is an invaluable resource for researchers, clinicians,
graduate students as well as clinicians and allied professionals in
developmental psychology, rehabilitation and rehabilitative
medicine, learning and instruction, occupational therapy,
speech-language pathology, and educational technology."
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