Rehabilitation Engineering Professions

Rehabilitation Engineering

Rehabilitation Engineering means the systematic application of engineering sciences to design, develop, adapt, test, evaluate, apply, and distribute technological solutions to problems confronted by individuals with disabilities in functional areas, such as mobility, communications, hearing, vision, and cognition, and in activities associated with employment, independent living, education, and integration into the community.

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• - Based at the University of Illinois-Chigago, this group focuses upon research into recreation and recreational technologies for disabled persons.
  
• - This Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center's primary research examines preventing disability associated with musculoskeletal disorders and aging. The center is located at the University of Michigan.
  
• - General site with recent relevant news reports.
  
• - Institude of rehablitation science and technology, National Yang Ming University, Taiwan.
  
• - National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research links to Rehabilitation Engineering Research Centers in the United States
  
• - The Cambridge University Engineering Department's research activities encompass many areas of Human-Computer Interaction, from the design of novel input systems to the development of mechatronic assistive devices, and Design for All.
  
• - An interdisciplinary association for the advancement of rehabilitation and assistive technologies (AT).
  
• - This Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center is located at Northwestern University and is dedicated to the improvement of prostheses and orthoses, fitting and manufacturing processes, and increasing basic understanding of human-machine systems.
  
• - The center provides services to people with disabilities and academic programs in Biomedical and Rehabilitation Engineering in Hong Kong.
  
• - Kings College London unit offering taught courses and undertaking research into Rehabilitation Engineering.
  
• - Contains useful information on the subject as well as its importance and relevance.
  
• - Student led research into rehabilitation technology for cartilage degradation
  
• - Discussion forums for the orthotic and prosthetic industry
  
• - The Trace Center at the University of Wisconsin is a rehabilitation engineering research center focusing on computer and other IT accessibility studies.
  
• - This Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center studying alternative and augmentative communication is located in Durem, North Carolina.
  
• - An internationally recognized Centre specializing in advanced Orthotic Care, Prosthetic Care, Pedorthic Care, Mastectomy Care, and Rehabilitation Engineering Services.
  
• - Contains designs and experiences of a graduate rehabilitation engineer. Information on job accommodations, augmentative communication, and assistive technology.
  
• - Organisation concerned with communication of the subject's goals and objectives.
  
• - Conducts research programs that promote technological solutions to problems confronting people who are deaf or hard of hearing.
  
  

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