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Introductory book principles of assistive technology: Introducing the human activity assistive technology model; 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 impaiments; sensory aids for persons with auditory impairment; assistive technologies for cognitive augmentation; augmentative and alternative communication systems.