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Disabled Village
Children is a guide for community health
workers, rehabilitation workers, and families. With
more than 4,000 line drawings and 200 photos, this
is an exciting book of information and ideas for all
who are concerned about the well-being of disabled
children. It is especially for those who live in rural
areas where resources are limited. But it is also
for therapists and professionals who assist community-based
programs or who want to share knowledge and skills
with families and concerned members of the commnunity.
The book gives a wealth of clear, simple, but detailed
information about most common disabilities of children:
many different physical disabilities, blindness, deafness,
fits, behavior problems, and developmental delay.
It gives suggestions for simplified rehabilitation,
low-cost aids, and ways to help disabled children
find a role and be accepted in the community.
Above all, the book helps us to realize that most
of the answers for meeting these children's needs
can be found within the community, the family, and
in the children themselves. It discusses ways of starting
small community rehabilitation centers and workshops
run by disabled persons or the families of disabled
children.
The book is divided into three parts:
- Part 1: Working with the child and family
- Part 2: Working with the community
- Part 3: Working in the shop
Disabled Village Children is
not a book just for children, or just for use in villages,
or only for the Third World:
This book contains "...many thought-provoking rehab
ideas which run counter to the traditional Western rehab
approach, yet which are eminently appropriate in many
areas of the non-Western world."
Newsletter of the Cross-Cultural and
International Physical Therapy Interest
Group
"...it is equally useful to people of all ages living
in any sized community."
Community Resource Network, Inc.
"I have been a paraplegic for nearly four years and
since then have been deeply immersed in all the issues
of spinal cord injury... Your book speaks to me in a
fresh and practical manner... It is going to be an important
reference book for my everyday life..."
Nancy Aunapu, activist
Occidental, California, USA
Order
a copy for your organization now!
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