Evaluating, Selecting and Using Appropriate Assistive Technology

This paperback publication is appropriate to the current home health care field where outcomes and quality are emphasized. The first chapter introduces the reader to the outcomes and quality measurements that are important to the use of assistive technology within the health care setting. Technology aids are then broken down into the many segments of this important supportive service. Chapter 2' deals with the less complex and more of a do-it-yourself approach to improved activities of daily living (ADLs). Chapters 3 and 4 address mobility in the form of wheeled devices and vehicular adaptations. Both chapters are important to any community reentry program. The impairments and correlative assistive devices are outlined in chapters 5, 6. and 7, and include speech and communication systems; loss of vision and visual assistive techniques and devices; deafness; anatomy and physiology of the differing types of deafness; and. subsequently, which assistive devices would prove beneficial. The next two chapters focus on the recreational assistive devices, motivation and play. These approach the topics with an explanation of the value of recreation and the need for play for all individuals.