Disabled Books

As a local family support council member, I was interested in what was happening across the nation in regards to family support. Items such as states that had passed legislation with or without funding attached, copies of surveys used to gather information regarding family support status provided some good insight. Thanks for writing this book.

This text was helpful and gave interesting examples of theory and practice. It is also user friendly.

Good reference for teachers in dealing with students with mild disabilities. Explanations and case studies presented. Very helpful for those taking the ABCTE in compliance with the No Child Left Behind.

Great collection of letters which helps you understand what an officer went thru during the Civil War.

It is an unfortunate paradox that the advances in medical therapy and care and the increased life expectancy results in an expanding population of physically disabled persons. Many physically disabled suffer from neuronal damage (e.g., stroke or spinal cord injury) that prohibits or disturbs the control of movements; others are amputees that lack a limb or part of a limb. The challenge to assist these patients with artificial motor control and artificial limbs is enormous; it requires a multidisciplinary expertise in medicine and engineering.

From a control engineer perspective, the biological motor control system is amazing. Even the very basic ability to produce a stable walking pattern in rough unknown terrain, which is naturally generated by the biological motor control system, is an extremely difficult engineering endeavor, as any student who tried to stabilize an inverted pendulum can testify. The authors, Popovic and Sinkjaer, are both trained as engineers and are well known for their research in this field. In this book they cover an extremely large portion of the state of the art technology and theories in the field of motor control for the physically disabled. Other books contain more quantitative and qualitative examples about motor control. However, they do not thoroughly address the issues of rehabilitation technology.

My main criticism is aesthetic; this book uses a "wide survey" style, which includes rapid transitions from one model to another and from one result to the other. This style occasionally prevents full appreciation of each model and result. In addition there are a number of poor quality figures and several cumbersome sentences especially in the very first chapter. As a result, the book is rather difficult to read in certain sections. In spite of these shortcomings, the book provides a comprehensive reference source, and it is certainly the definitive reference book in this field. I strongly recommend it for the biomedical engineering shelves of any medical and engineering library and for the researchers and students of this field.

This is a short version of a detailed review. For further details see the June 2001 issue of Automatica, 37 (6) pp. 964-967. (Elsevier Science Ltd).

A good book for rehabilitation practitioneers, although it can get a little too much over the place. Cook likes to explain things with tons of detail which may be good if you need a quick handbook, or bad if you need a course reader

Bolger writes well. Sometimes he writes too well. Take the very first paragraph of the book and you'll come across not one but two strong, beautiful metaphors. Only they demand to be read twice, so you read them twice, then wonder at their proximity and then worry that things are going to be moving rather slowly. On the whole, they don't. Part of the book is about a couple on the run from an unnamed crime, part a poetic confession from beyond the grave and part an account of how it all came about. Of the three separate tales, only the latter is truly riveting. The description of Hano and Shay's friendship is spot-on, revelling in its aimlessness, energy and displacement. Dublin comes alive and seems at odds with the other parts of Ireland that Bolger displays. It's Ireland on the move, only its inhabitants haven't figured out where yet. The Old Ireland, the green sod, is gone. The Celtic Tiger hasn't yet arrived and that's what makes this novel, written in 1990, amazingly prescient. Its only weakness comes from the dialogue placed in the mouth of sixteen year old Katie, who never rises above being a two dimensional mouthpiece for the author. She stops in the middle of her escape, again and again, to deliver thoughtful, wordy descriptions of her place, or lack thereof, in the world. There's much to be impressed with and 'THe Journey Home' is worth the read, but this is a book with a distracting streak of purple prose and a single character bent on undermining the solidity of those who share the page.

I ordered this book through Amazon because my university bookstore did not have any copies. It came in a really timely manner and I was the only one in class besides the professor that had it. I have recommended Amazon every since.

I think the suggestions of the four elements in curriculum adaptation are wonderful and it did help teachers a lot in daily teaching. Very often , teachers have focused on the content only and ignore the other three elements ,especially the strategies and the students' self management skills. To reorganise the physical setting of the clasroom has long been a challenge to schools and teachers when lecture/ direct instruction is the only one way to deliver the lesson. I thnk i was set free from my past teaching history and again find teaching interesting and challenging. Finally, I just want to say, it is a wonderful book. And I want to say thank you to Hoover ans Patton. Thanks!

I'm presently using this book as the textbook in my undergraduate college course. It offers a practical guide to understanding inclusion and delivering assessment/curriculum. I recommend it for classroom teachers faced with serving all children including those with special needs. It would also interest parents determining the best curriculum for their child with special needs.