Amethod ofmeasuring and recording change in scored performance (the outcome) Is described, based on the Individual Education Programmes of mentally retarded children over time. This method Is being piloted at the Tropical Health Foundation of India with children whose handicaps are in the mild to severe categories. (The pilot excludes children with profound handicap.) This article Is adapted from a paper published in ACTIONAID Disability News 1995, Volume 6, Number 1, by kind permission of ACTIONAID, Bangalore, India.
The results of an informal inquiry into non-practising occupational therapists are presented. The inquiry was a postal one, conducted in the County of Avon and neighbouring areas; it aimed to find people who might be prepared to return to occupational therapy and to elicit the conditions they would need to facilitate that return.
It was felt that the interests of the profession, of developing therapists and of occupational therapy departments would be well served by the cross-fertilisation of ideas likely to result from six-month exchanges between Canadian and British hospitals, as a component of rotational posts. This report describes the arrangements needed for such exchanges.
The articles in this short series for associate members sketch the major features of some long-term diseases commonly encountered by health and social service workers helping people in their own homes. They provide a starting point for understanding the problems of sufferers and their carers in adjusting their lives to these disabling conditions, particularly as they affect family life. Health and social service workers will develop their own sensitivity to life issues raised by these illnesses through further reading and experience.
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