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Title: Assistive technology for students who are blind or visually impaired : a guide to assessment / Ike Presley and Frances Mary D'Andrea.
Author: Presley, Ike, 1953-
D'Andrea, Frances Mary, 1960-
Polgar, Jan Miller, author.
General Notes: Preceded by: Cook & Hussey's assistive technologies : principles and practice / Albert M. Cook and Jan Miller Polgar ; author emerita, Susan M. Hussey. 3rd ed. c2008., Preceded by: Cook & Hussey's assistive technologies : principles and practice / Albert M. Cook and Jan Miller Polgar ; author emerita, Susan M. Hussey. 3rd ed. c2008.

Publisher: AFB Press,
Publication Place: New York, NY :
ISBN: 9780891288909
0891288902
9780891288916
0891288910
Subject: People with visual disabilities -- Education -- United States.
Teaching -- United States -- Aids and devices -- Evaluation.
Computerized self-help devices for people with disabilities -- United States.
Students with disabilities -- Services for -- United States.
Self-Help Devices.
Blindness -- rehabilitation.
Education of Visually Disabled.
Needs Assessment.
Sensory Aids.
Computerized self-help devices for people with disabilities.
People with visual disabilities -- Education.
Students with disabilities -- Services for.
Teaching -- Aids and devices -- Evaluation.
Visueel gehandicapten.
Hulpmiddelen.
United States.
Contents: Technology for learning and literacy -- Technologies for accessing print information -- Technologies for accessing electronic information -- Technologies for producing written communication -- Technologies for producing materials in alternate formats -- Getting ready for the assessment -- Performing an assistive technology assessment -- Writing the recommendations report -- Follow-up: implementing the recommendations.
Introduction and framework -- Technologies that assist people who have disabilities -- Activity, human, and context : the human doing an activity in context -- Ethical issues in assistive technology -- Delivering assistive technology services to the consumer -- Making the connection : user inputs for assistive technologies -- Control interfaces for assistive technologies -- Accessing mainstream information and communication technologies: the technology and the web -- Enabling function and participation with seating technologies -- Technologies that enable mobility -- Technologies that aid transportation -- Technologies that aid manipulation and control of the environment -- Sensory aids for persons with visual impairments -- Sensory aids for persons with auditory impairment -- Assistive technologies for cognitive augmentation -- Augmentative and alternative communication systems.

Physical Description: xvii, 528 pages : illustrations ;

Location/SubLocation: HU /HU_MAIN
Publication Date: �2008.

	Agency:	Collection:	Call No.:	Item Type:	Status:	Copy:	Barcode:	Media Type:
	Hashemite Main Library	General	681.761 P934	Normal Circulation	Available	1	HU283148	Book