Sitting Aids

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HealthWiki > Disabled Village Children > Chapter 62: Developmental Aids > Sitting Aids

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In this chapter:

A wide variety of early sitting aids are included in the chapter on cerebral palsy. Special seating adaptations for chairs and wheelchairs are in Chapter 65. Here we include a few more ideas:

seat for child with spasticity who has knock-knee contractures (one of many possibilities)

strap for keeping legs apart (one around each leg and tied through holes in sides and seat)

holes for straps

	Tire seat or swing bends head, body, and shoulders forward to help control spasticity.
A log or roll seat helps the child with spasticity or poor balance sit more securely with legs spread. Log should be as high as the knees. Leave a little room between the cut-out circle in the table and the child’s belly.
		seat for a child with spasticity whose body stiffens backward

Design from Handling the Young Cerebral Palsied Child at Home.

OTHER IDEAS FOR HOLDING LEGS APART

From Don Caston and Healthlink Worldwide

from other parts of this book
"Making Therapy Functional and Fun"		"A ‘Playground for All’ Built by Children — Projimo, Mexico"

"Prevention and Early Management of Contracture"s	"How Can We Help?"	"General Position"	"Prevention and Early Management of Contractures"

A seat and table like this in the form of a fish on the ocean makes sitting in a special seat fun. So do the village-made toys (PROJIMO, seat design by Don Caston).	The seat can be used for straight leg sitting, or put on top of the table for bent-knee sitting. Other designs include 'squirrel' seats on 'tree' tables.

This page was updated:19 Jan 2018