rehabilitation engineering

Rehabilitation engineering - Design of devices and systems used to aid the disabled.

This area deals with research related to clinical psychology, speech language therapy, health services, and rehabilitation engineering.

Kinova works in the domain of health care and is particularly specialized in rehabilitation engineering.

The study of gait allows diagnoses and intervention strategies to be made, as well as permitting future developments in rehabilitation engineering.

Many of the Veterans Administration Rehabilitation Research & Development Centers conduct rehabilitation engineering research.

Functional areas addressed through rehabilitation engineering may include mobility, communications, hearing, vision, and cognition, and activities associated with employment, independent living, education, and integration into the community.

Rehabilitation engineering is the systematic application of engineering sciences to design, develop, adapt, test, evaluate, apply, and distribute technological solutions to problems confronted by individuals with disabilities.

Rehabilitation Engineering Research Centers conduct research in the rehabilitation engineering, each focusing on one general area or aspect of disability.

RESNA (Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America)

Human Accessibility and Rehabilitation Engineering (Engenharia de Reabilitação e Acessibilidade Humanas)

Occupational therapists and driver educators comprise the two largest groups of professionals, with other professionals from the fields of rehabilitation counseling, physical therapy, kinesiotherapy, rehabilitation engineering and psychology.

It includes 90 staff members who work in such research areas as neuropsychology, neuroscience, outcomes assessment, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, stroke, rehabilitation engineering, gait analysis and motor control.

Prosthetics and Orthotics International is aimed at all professionals who have an interest in the medical, clinical, rehabilitation and research aspects of prosthetics, orthotics and rehabilitation engineering and their related topics.

While some rehabilitation engineers have master's degrees in rehabilitation engineering, usually a subspecialty of Biomedical engineering, most rehabilitation engineers have undergraduate or graduate degrees in biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, or electrical engineering.

The Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center for Wireless Technologies found that, no matter what type of warning was first sent, another second type of warning was needed before people would trust the warning and do something because of it.

Beginning in the 1950's, Dr. Mann was an early practitioner in the field of rehabilitation engineering and helped guide students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the design of sound, vision and navigation systems to unfetter the handicapped.