Enabling technology : disabled people, work and new technology / Alan Roulstone.

Buckingham : Open University Press, 1998.

xi, 159 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. Issues in enabling technology. 1. Disability and new technology: a barriers approach. 2. The promise of new technology. 3. Researching new technology: the road to nowhere? 4. Unpromising environments: structured employment and technology. 5. The Special Aids to Employment scheme: an enabling force? -- pt. 2. The experience of disabled workers using new technology. 6. Disabled workers and new technology. 7. Pathways to work with new technology. 8. Enabling technology: the benefits of new technology. 9. Resilient barriers: continued limits to enabling technology -- pt. 3. Conclusions and policy points. 10. Conclusions. 11. Enabling technology policy and social rights.