Disabled Village Children: A Guide for Community Health Workers, Rehabilitation Workers, and Families
At the Center on Disability Studies at the University of Hawaii, we use Disabled Village Children to teach teachers and family members how to support the related services needs of children with severe disabilities... The book works well for us because it supports simple English with wonderful drawings. Everyone whom we train speaks English as a second language, and everyone appreciates the pictures that illustrate the written concepts. The book clearly explains the most common disabilities and provides good examples of interventions that can be done using locally available materials. We have made wooden and PVC equipment adapted from designs in the book, and used many of the ideas in the book to support the needs of children on very remote islands. The ideas are creative and address basic needs of children with disabilities all over the world. ----Katherine Ratliffe, PhD, PT. , Center on Disability Studies, University of HawaiiDisabled 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 GroupDisabled Village Children is the benchmark manual on community-based rehabilitation... (Hesperian's) new series of books on early intervention for children with disabilities are beautiful as well as extremely useful. -- --US Agency for International DevelopmentDisabled 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 GroupDisabled Village Children is the benchmark manual on community-based rehabilitation... (Hesperian's) new series of books on early intervention for children with disabilities are beautiful as well as extremely useful. -- --US Agency for International DevelopmentDisabled 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 GroupDisabled Village Children is the benchmark manual on community-based rehabilitation... (Hesperian's) new series of books on early intervention for children with disabilities are beautiful as well as extremely useful. ----US Agency for International Development