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Facilitating child participation through power mobility
- Authors:
- CASEY Jacqueline, PALEG Ginny, LIVINGSTONE Roslyn
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 76(3), 2013, pp.157-159.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Wheeled power mobility can fulfil an intrinsic desire to be mobile, to explore one's environment and to be active and participate in occupations regardless of age. This opinion piece briefly presents the potential of power mobility for children with physical impairments, the recent evidence base, an exploration of the readiness and training of children in the use of power mobility, and current United Kingdom prescription practice. This mode of intervention should no longer be considered as the final option but, rather, as a tool to prevent passivity and dependence and to enable children to optimise their participation in childhood occupations. (Publisher abstract)
Occupational therapy targeting physical environmental barriers in buildings with public facilities
- Authors:
- IWARSSON Susanne, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 67(1), January 2004, pp.29-38.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Evaluates an occupational therapy based intervention aimed at increasing the accessibility to buildings with public facilities in a Swedish town centre, which targeted physical environmental barriers. The intervention was occupational therapy based on the environmental assessments of each facility, given to the facility owners in order to ease the removal of environmental barriers. Another aim was to elucidate the attitudes towards and the practical obstacles to the implementation of accessibility measures among public facility owners. Systematic on-site observations of environmental barriers were administered in five buildings with different facilities, at baseline and at follow-up 18 months later, and were complemented by semi-structured interviews with the facility owners at follow-up. At baseline, environmental barriers were found in all five facilities, such as at entrances, and at follow-up only minor improvements were identified. Two of the facility owners had made use of the occupational therapy advice, but the results also revealed scarce knowledge of or negative attitudes towards accessibility measures. Concludes that active occupational therapy, as described in this study, can influence the situation only to a limited extent.