The Need for Occupational Therapy in Cerebral Palsy Units

BJOT: Occupational Therapy with Children

“…'With her knowledge of carpentry learned during training the occupational therapist is a very suitable member of the team to adapt chairs to fit the cerebral palsied child so he can sit in the best posture possible to make use of any trunk control he has gained to maximum advantage and to prevent deformities' and finding the best medium through which he can be educated using electric typewriters and calculators. 8 The review of 'Aids to daily living for children with severe congenital limb deformities' by Nichols et al in 1968 described 43 children who could be supplied with upper and lower limb protheses." Following assessment of general functional capabilities, aids were supplied to solve individual daily living problems.…”