Vol. 39 No. 6, November/December 2002

VA Rehabilitation Research & Development Service RR&D Main Page

Cover JRRD 2002 About the Art

Guidelines for Contributors

Guest Editorial: How to succeed in rehabilitation engineering with a great deal of effort Michael J. Rosen, PhD Director, Rehabilitative Engineering Service, National Rehabilitation Hospital; Director, RERC on Telerehabilitation

Masthead

---

Recollections and Perspectives

---

1 Development of rehabilitation engineering over the years: As I see it

Dudley S. Childress, PhD
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation,
Northwestern University; Research Health Scientist, VA Chicago Health Care
System—Lakeside Division

11 How and when did the rehabilitation engineering center program come into being?

James B. Reswick, ScD, DE
Retired Associate Director, National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research,
U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC

17 Reflections on rehabilitation engineering history: Are there lessons to be learned?

Douglas A. Hobson, PhD
Associate Professor Emeritus, Associate Director, RERC on Wheelchair Transportation Safety, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

23 Engineering design education and rehabilitation engineering

Robert W. Mann, ScD
Whitaker Professor Emeritus, Biomedical Engineering, Department of Mechanical
Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

39 A journey through early augmentative communication and computer access

Gregg C. Vanderheiden, PhD
Professor, Industrial Engineering and Biomedical Engineering; Director, Trace R&D
Center, University of Wisconsin at Madison