Saturday, February 7, 2015

Ch.2 Summary Change Agent


The Human Activity Assistive Technology System is a guideline that provides a understanding process of assistive technology in the lives of persons with disabilities. The model is defined as having elements of human, activity and assistive technology forming a collective that is nested within a physical, social cultural and environmental context which shows the dynamic interaction between three factors which are activity, human and assistive technology. Activities can be broken down into three different categories which are activities of daily living, work, and productivity, play and leisure activities. It means what works for one individual in a particular setting might not be successful for another person. A person can have multiple roles simultaneously  and roles change throughout a person’s life span; first one must determine the difference between a person’s skills and abilities. It gives a dynamic understanding of human abilities and how a person changes and adapts to his or her engagement in activity in response to the environmental demands, to determine whether or not if the human behavior is good.

 

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