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Paediatric Rehabilitation Engineering From Disability to Possibility © 2011 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC Rehabilitation Science in Practice Series Series Editors Marcia Scherer, Ph.D. Dave Muller, Ph.D. President Executive Institute for Matching Person and Technology Suffolk New College Professor Editor-in-Chief Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation Disability and Rehabilitation University of Rochester Medical Center Founding Editor Aphasiology Published Titles Paediatric Rehabilitation Engineering: From Disability to Possibility, edited by Tom Chau and Jillian Fairley Forthcoming Titles Multiple Sclerosis Rehabilitation: From Impairment to Participation, edited by Marcia Finlayson Assistive Technology Assessment Handbook, edited by Marcia Scherer and Stefano Federici Rehabilitation Goal Setting: Theory, Practice and Evidence, edited by Richard Siegert and William Levack Ambient Assisted Living, edited by Nuno M. Garcia, Joel Jose P. C. Rodrigues, Dirk Christian Elias, Miguel Sales Dias © 2011 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC Paediatric Rehabilitation Engineering From Disability to Possibility Edited by Tom Chau Jillian Fairley Boca Raton London New York CRC Press is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2011 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group 6000 Broken Sound Parkway NW, Suite 300 Boca Raton, FL 33487-2742 © 2011 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC CRC Press is an imprint of Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa business No claim to original U.S. Government works Version Date: 20131021 International Standard Book Number-13: 978-1-4398-0851-1 (eBook - PDF) This book contains information obtained from authentic and highly regarded sources. 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Visit the Taylor & Francis Web site at http://www.taylorandfrancis.com and the CRC Press Web site at http://www.crcpress.com © 2011 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC This book is dedicated to Eric Wan, who as a bright and musically gifted 18-year-old was rendered a quadriplegic without the ability to ventilate independently as a consequence of transverse myelitis secondary to vaccination. Although his life was turned upside down, Eric never lost his love for learning nor his enormous sense of service to his neighbour. A year after his injury, Eric returned to finish high school and in 2010 completed his bachelor’s degree in computer engineering. He will be commencing graduate school in the fall of 2010. Over the last 5 years, Eric has devoted his energies to augmenting possibilities for children and youth with disabilities, by applying his superior software engineering skills and know-how to develop virtual reality therapy applications, assistive technologies, and embedded systems for paediatric rehabilitation. He is an inspirational example of the defiant power of the human spirit and a testimony to the engineering of possibilities from disability. © 2011 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC © 2011 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC Contents Acknowledgements ...................................................................................................ix Contributors ..............................................................................................................xi Chapter 1 Introduction ..........................................................................................1 Tom Chau and Jillian Fairley Chapter 2 Microswitch-Based Programs for Children and Youth with Multiple Disabilities: An Overview of the Responses and Technology Adopted ..........................................................................13 Giulio E. Lancioni, Nirbhay N. Singh, Mark F. O’Reilly, Jeff Sigafoos, Doretta Oliva and Gabriella Basili Chapter 3 Access Technologies for Children and Youth with Severe Motor Disabilities ..........................................................................................45 Natasha Alves, Stefanie Blain, Tiago Falk, Brian Leung, Negar Memarian and Tom Chau Chapter 4 Advances in Technologies to Support Children with Communication Needs .......................................................................85 Gail Teachman and Cynthia Tam Chapter 5 Optimal Web-Based Survey Design in the Youth Population: Enabling Access for All ...................................................................117 T. Claire Davies and N. Susan Stott Chapter 6 Paediatric Seating .............................................................................155 Eric Tam Chapter 7 Upper and Lower Extremity Prosthetics for Children and Youth ....189 Elaine Biddiss and Jan Andrysek Chapter 8 Innovations in Robotic Devices for Autism .....................................241 Tamie Salter and Francois Michaud vii © 2011 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC viii Contents Chapter 9 Virtual Reality Therapy in Paediatric Rehabilitation ......................291 Patrice L. (Tamar) Weiss, Naomi Weintraub and Yocheved Laufer Index ......................................................................................................................329 © 2011 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC Acknowledgements The editors are deeply indebted to CRC Press/Taylor & Francis for the opportu- nity to assemble this contributed volume. It has been both an educational and an immensely rewarding journey. This work would not have been possible without the tremendous editorial assistance of Tasnim Kamani, who spent countless hours formatting references, retrieving information for incomplete references, tracking different versions of manuscript files for the various chapters, and coordinat- ing timely communications with the contributing authors. We are also grateful for the efforts of Xiao Jin Chen, who helped to distribute initial materials and instructions to the authors and collect signed agreements. We would also like to acknowledge the graphic and visualization creativity of Steven Bernstein, who collaborated with the various authors to develop the chapter roadmaps. ix © 2011 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC © 2011 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
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