I work in a school system so money is not always available for low tech items. We are lucky enough to have a person in the county who does make items for our department of approximately 45 people (10 PT's. 35 OT's) but her time is valuable so sometimes we make our own things. Things I have made include weighted pencils using bolts and electrical tape on a regular pencil; slant boards out of cardboard boxes or use of a large binder, weighted snakes and blankets (the weight comes from either rice or beans) and other built-up devices. That's what I can think of right now; hope it helps. If anything else comes to mind I will let you know. Sandy
----- Original Message -----From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 1:33 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: question about fabricating low tech devices
Hi everyone, I am an educator in an OTA program looking for information on
what types of adaptations or low tech assistve technology OT's are doing
out there...we are trying to figure out how to still give students the
experience of working with various media, encourage problem solving and
creativity, and create something useful that they may actually need to
fabricate again. For smaller projects we already have them making U cuffs,
simple splints, built up handles, a one handed nail clipper attached to a
board,etc. Bigger things included adapted cutting boards, lap trays,
positioning devices for children, etc. These are cumbersome and graduate
feedback is that they never need to make the bigger projects again after
they leave here. So we are hoping to incorporate some new smaller projects
that better reflect the types of problem solving and creativity that might
be required of them in a variety of practice settigns. Any suggestions?
It seems like there is so much available now to the public that a lot of
the things we have come up with are things people just buy for themselves
now instead of having the OT create...thanks in advance for any suggestions
you may have!
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