Hesperian Health Guides
Thanks
The entire book has been carefully reviewed by specialists in related fields: physical therapists (PTs), occupational therapists (OTs), orthotists, prosthetists, wheelchair designers, rehabilitation engineers, and leaders from the disabled community. We cannot include the names of all those who have helped in so many ways, but the help of the following has been outstanding:
Sophie Levitt, PT; Ann Hallum, PT; Terry Nordstrom,PT; Anne Affleck, OT; M. Miles, rehab planner and critic; Christine Miles, special educator; Farhat Rashid, PT; Bruce Curtis, peer disabled group counselor; Ralf Hotchkiss, wheelchair rider/ engineer; Alice Hadley, PT; Jan Postma, PT; Jean- Baptiste Richardier, prosthetist, Claude Simonnot, MD/prosthetist; Wayne Hampton, MD/prosthetist; Jim Breakey, prosthetist; Wally Motlock, orthotist; Valerie Taylor, PT; Dr. P. K. Sethi, orthopedic surgeon/ prosthetist; Pam Zinkin, pediatrician/CBR expert; Paul Silva, wheelchair builder; David Morley, pediatrician; Elia Landeros, PT; Teresa Paez, social worker; Rafiq Jaffer, rehab specialist; Kris Buckner, parent of many adopted children with disabilities; Barbara Anderson, PT; Don Caston, rehab engineer; Greg Dixon, Director, Partners’ Appropriate Technology In Health; Susan Hammerman, Director, Rehabilitation International; Carole Coleman, specialist in sign language; Suzanne Reier, recreation therapist; Sarah Grossman, PT; Donal Laub, plastic surgeon; Jean Kohn, MD in rehabilitation; Bob Friedricks, orthotist; Katherine Myers, spinal cord injury nurse; Grace Warren, PT in leprosy; Jean M. Watson, PT in leprosy; David Sanders, pediatrician; Jane Neville, leprosy expert; Stanley Browne, MD, leprosy; Alexandra Enders, OT; John McGill, prosthetist; Victoria Sheffield, Rita Leavell, MD, Jeff Watson, J. Kirk Horton, Lawrence Campbell, Helen Keller International; Owen Wrigley, IHAP; Roswitha and Kenneth Klee, Winfried Lichtemberger, Jeanne R. Kenmore, Christoffel Blindenmission; Judy Deutsch, PT; Jane Thiboutot, PT; R.L. Huckstep, MD; Linda Goode, PT; Susan Johnson, PT; David Hall, child health consultant; Ann Goerdt, PT for WHO; Mira Shiva, MD; Nigel Shapcott, seating specialist; Ann Yeadon, educator; Charles Reilly, sign language consultant; Eli Savanack, Gallaudet College; John Gray, MD; Molly Thorburn, MD; Lonny Shavelson, MD; Margaret Mackenzie, medical anthropologist; Rainer Arnhold, MD, Gulbadan Habibi, Caroline Arnold, Philip Kgosa a, Garren Lumpkin, UNICEF.
Above all, we would like to thank the team of rehabilitation workers with disabilities in Project PROJIMO, Ajoya, Sinaloa, Mexico, along with the hundreds of children with disabilities and their families. Their involvement and interaction in exploring, testing, inventing, and discovering simplified alternatives has led to the formation of this book. Key among the PROJIMO team are: Marcelo Acevedo, Miguel Álvarez, Adelina Bastidas, Roberto Fajardo, Teresa Gárate, Bruce Hobson, Concepción Lara, Inés León, Ramon León, Polo Leyva, Armando Nevárez, María Picos, Adelina Pliego, Elijio Reyes, Cecilia Rodríguez, Josefa Rodríguez, Concepción Rubio, Moisés Salas, Rosa Salcido, Asunción Soto, Javier Valverde, Florentino Velázquez, Efrain Zamora, Miguel Zamora.
For this book we have borrowed information, ideas, illustrations, methods, and designs from many sources, published and unpublished. Often credit has been given, but not always. If you notice we have ‘borrowed’ from your material and neglected to give you credit, please accept our unspoken thanks and apologies
For their excellent and dedicated work in preparing the manuscript for publication, special thanks go to: Jane Maxwell, editing, page design, and art production; Irene Yen, editing and paste-up; Kathy Alberts, Elizabeth de Avila, Martín Bustos, Mary Klein, Carlos Romero and Marjorie Wang, paste-up; Martin Bustos and Anna Muñoz-Briggs, Spanish translation; Myra Polinger, typing; Lynn Gordon, Bill Bower, Phil Pasmanick and Dan Perlman, general review; Alison Davis, reference section research; Elizabeth de Ávila, Don Baker, Agnes Batteiger, Jane Bavelas, Leda Bosworth, Renee Burgard, Michael Lang, Betty Page, Pearl Snyder, Tinker Spar, Paula Tanous and Roger Wilson, proofreading; Lino Montebon, Joan Thompson and David Werner, drawings; Richard Parker, John Fago, Carolyn Watson, Tom Wells and David Werner, photography; Dyanne Ladine, art production; Martin Bustos and Richard Parker, photo production; Hal Lockwood and Helen Epperson of Bookman Productions, Tim Anderson and Linda Inman of Reprographex, typesetting and layout; and Trude Bock for giving so wholeheartedly of herself and her home for the preparation of this book
We want to give an extra word of thanks to Carol Thuman for coordination, typing, and correspondence and Janet Elliott for graphics, artwork, and pasteup, and to both for sharing the responsibility for the preparation and quality of this book.
The main costs of preparing this book were met with grants from the Public Welfare Foundation, whose continued friendship and support of the Hesperian Foundation’s publications is deeply appreciated. Additional funding was generously provided by the Gary Wang Memorial Fund,UNICEF, OXFAM UK, the Swedish International Development Agency, MISEREOR, and May and Stanley Smith Charitable Trust. We would also like to thank the Thrasher Research Fund, and Mulago Foundation for helping meet the costs of Project PROJIMO, from which this book evolved.
For updating this book, we thank Manisha Aryal, Asha Bajaj, Dani Behonick, John Bergez, Martín Bustos, Peg Cumberland, Darlena David, Digital Divide (Cambodia), Iñaki Fernández de Retana, Teresa Glass, Jacob Goolkasian, Shu Ping Guan, Namita Jacob, Todd Jailer, Yogesh Jain, Rosemary Jason, Aditi Malhotra, Jane Maxwell, Susan McCallister, Gail McSweeney, Elena Metcalf, Wendy Moya, Shruti Nishanth, Venkata Ranganadha Rao Pemmaraju, Naman Shah, C. Sienkiewicz, Kathleen Tandy, Dorothy Tegeler, Sarah Wallis, Amy Wilson, and Paula Worby.