The impact of switching on family caregivers of children with cerebral palsy

Abstract

This research indicates that caregivers often have the greatest impact on whether switching will be adopted in the home. The greatest impact on caregivers is related to their perception on the competence of therapists and coordination of services provided.

Gaze-based assistive technology used in daily life by children with severe physical impairments – parents’ experiences

“…The creation of hope among parents is confirmed by other research on AT for children with severe impairments. 36,37 This finding in the present study is important as hoping for a possible good future creates meaning in people's lives, 38 and helps families manage the child's impairments day by day. 35 Professionals must therefore respect hope and dare to ask parents about their feelings, thoughts and hopes related to children's gazebased AT use, and not avoid discussing certain issues due to the professionals' own fear of not being able to provide what parents hope for.…”

Quality of Life in Mothers of Children with Cerebral Palsy

“…Th e quality of life connected with health is a subjective health condition or experience of health and refers to the impact of disease, damage, disorder, or in short of the health condition on the quality of life in order to be diff erentiated from other aspects of the quality of life. It has a signifi cant clinical interest in the case of family members involved in the treatment, especially in cases when patients are children 2 because diffi culties in the child's development require increased intensity of care, which may become a burden for parents and infl uence their physical and mental health [3][4][5][6][7][8] .…”

Stakeholders' views of the introduction of assistive technology in the classroom: How family‐centred is Australian practice for students with cerebral palsy?

“…School staff's lack of knowledge of technology and ways in which it can be implemented may lead to loss of confidence and avoidance (Egilson and Traustadottir ; Nicolson et al . ). This, then, is an extension of the finding around parents' need for general information: teachers and teaching assistants are equally in need.…”

“…As a consequence, assistive technology is often sought to compensate and provide an alternative means of performing activities in specific environments such as the classroom (Nicolson et al . ). Assistive technology is an umbrella term for any device or system that enables a person to perform a task that would otherwise be too hard to execute or that facilitates how a task can be performed (World Health Organization ).…”