This article presents an overview of some of the problems of handicapped people and the challenge they represent to human factors specialists and engineering psychologists. It focuses, as does the entire issue, on several types of handicapping conditions (impaired vision and hearing, paralysis, missing and malfunctioning limbs, mental retardation) and their implications for several aspects of normal life (mobility and transportation, manipulation and control, communication, employment, and independent living).
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