Disabled Village Children

00 Front Matter Credits, Table of Contents, About this Book
01 Introduction - Making Therapy Functional and Fun
02 Ideas for Sharing Information from This Book
03 Prevention of Disabilities
04 Examining and Evaluating the Disabled Child
05 Simple Ways to Measure and Record a Child’s Progress
06 Guide for Identifying Disabilities
07 Polio
08 Contractures - Limbs That No Longer Straighten
09 Cerebral Palsy (difficulty with movements because of brain damage)
10 Muscular Dystrophy - Gradual - Progressive Muscle Loss
11 Club Feet, Flat Feet, Bow Legs, and Knock-knees
12 Common Birth Defects (cleft lip, extra or joined fingers, incomplete limbs, and arthrogryposis
13 Children Who Stay Small or Have Weak Bones (includes Rickets, Brittle Bone Disease, and Dwarfism)
14 Erb’s Palsy - Arm Paralysis from Birth Injury
15 Painful Joints (includes How to Use Aspirin)
16 Juvenile Arthritis
17 Rheumatic Fever
18 Hip Problems
19 Bone Infections
20 Spinal Curve and Other Back Deformities
21 Tuberculosis of the Backbone - Pott’s Disease
22 Spina Bifida (babies born with a defect over their backbone)
23 Spinal Cord Injury
24 Pressure Sores
25 Urine and Bowel Management - With Spinal Cord Injury and Spina Bifida (includes Urinary Infections)
26 Leprosy
27 Amputations
28 Burns and Burn Deformities
29 Seizures - Epilepsy
30 Blindness and Difficulty Seeing
31 Deafness and Communication
32 Mental Slowness - Down Syndrome, Hypothyroidism, and Other Causes
33 The Child With Several Severe Disabilities
34 Child Development and Developmental Delay
35 Early Stimulation and Development Activities
36 Feeding
37 Dressing
38 Toilet Training
39 Bathing (includes Care of the Teeth and Gums)
40 Ways to Improve Learning and Behavior
41 ‘Learning Disabilities’ in Children with Normal Intelligence
42 Range-of-motion and Other Exercises
43 Crutch Use, Cane Use, and Wheelchair Transfers
44 Disabled Children in the Community
45 Starting Village-based Rehabilitation Activities
46 Playgrounds for All Children
47 CHILD-to-child - Helping Teachers and Children Understand Disabled Children
48 Popular Theater
49 A Children’s Workshop for Making Toys
50 Organization, Management, and Financing of a Village Rehabilitation Program
51 Adapting the Home and Community to the Needs of the Disabled
52 Love, Sex, and Social Adjustment
53 Education - At Home, at School, at Work
54 Work - Possibilities and Training
55 Examples of Community-Directed Programs
56 Making Sure Aids and Procedures Do More Good than Harm
57 A ‘Shop for Making Aids’ Run by Disabled Villagers
58 Braces (Calipers)
59 Correcting Joint Contractures (with casts or braces)
60 Correcting Club Feet (with tape or plaster casts)
61 Homemade Casting Materials
62 Developmental Aids (for lying, sitting, standing, balance, and communication)
63 Walking Aids (bars, crutches, walkers, canes)
64 Decisions about Special Seats and Wheelchairs
65 Adaptations for Wheelchairs and Other Sitting Aids
66 Designs for 6 Basic Wheelchairs
67 Artificial Legs
68 Where To Get More Information
69 Glossary
70 Index


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