Discover MAITS’ free, open-access training resources tailored to empower caregivers of children with developmental disabilities and eating and drinking challenges. Dive into a wealth of knowledge designed to enhance care for these special individuals. Accessible directly from this page, these resources offer invaluable insights, strategies, and tools, fostering a global community of learning and support.
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MAITS TRAINING PACKAGES & PROGRAMMES
Recycle for Rehab, by Heather Angilley
Appropriate Paper-based Technology is dedicated to the production of useful articles from waste cardboard and paper. The concept began in Zimbabwe in the 1970s with Bevill Packer, a college lecturer. It has developed and been taken on largely by Occupational and Physiotherapists and applied mainly in low- and middle-income countries. In the UK, Jean and Kennett Westmacott have been foremost in developing APT and training others in the technology.
http://www.recycleforrehab.co.uk
National Library of Medicine
Appropriate paper-based technology (APT) is used to provide postural support for children with cerebral palsy (CP) in low-resourced settings. This pilot study aimed to evaluate the impact of APT on the children’s and families’ lives.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33075236/
Other Useful Resources
USAID – Advancing Nutrition
USAID Advancing Nutrition develops, curates, packages, and shares multi-sectoral nutrition knowledge to help you stay on top of developments and evidence in global nutrition programming.
Hesperian Health Guide
Here you’ll find books and health materials in English. Hesperian publishes and distributes easy-to-understand health information as books, booklets, fact sheets, mobile apps, free online resources and more.
Source
Source is an International Online Resource Centre designed to strengthen the management, use and impact of information on disability and inclusion in development and humanitarian contexts..
David Werner’s ‘Disabled Village People’
This is a guide for community health workers, rehabilitation workers, and families. This book is an attempt to pull together basic information to help meet the needs of village children with a wide range of disabilities.
UNICEF – What Works for Children in South Asia
The main objective of this paper is to reexamine the implementation of national CHW programmes and document the evidence based-knowledge or best practices in South Asia.
THET – Making it Work- A Toolkit for Medical Equipment Donations
This toolkit provides UK-specific guidance to health partnerships to assist them in evaluating whether or not to donate, and how to do so effectively..
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine’s manual ‘Getting to know Cerebral Palsy’
The overall purpose of the project was to develop and evaluate the acceptability of a model rehabilitation training programme for families of children with cerebral palsy (CP) in rural Bangladesh..
CBM – the overseas disability charity
Working in partnership with communities, health authorities and people with lived experience of mental health conditions, CBM improves access to mental health support and tackles the exclusion faced by people with psychosocial disabilities (disabilities caused by mental health conditions).
Improving Health at Home and Abroad
This report describes how British health volunteers help to make big improvements in health in other countries whilst at the same time benefiting the UK..
Health Books International
Health workers in low income countries do not always have access to up-to-date health and medical information to help them diagnose and treat their patients..
Raising Nathan: “Every life has a story”
Raising Nathan is the heartfelt story of the struggle faced by Jamaican parents on discovering that their son would be born with a major disability – and a prognosis that he would not survive childhood..
The Framework for NHS Involvement in International Development
The Framework for NHS Involvement in International Development aims to bring greater clarity to how the NHS can contribute in a sustainable way to capacity building in developing countries..
Communication Therapy International
CTI’s mission is to support professionals, including Speech and Language Therapists from high income countries, to maximize the impact of their work with people with communication disability in low- and middle-income countries.
OT Frontiers
OT Frontiers are a UK-based network that welcomes international members, building partnerships and promoting occupational therapy in low- and middle-income countries. The aim is to develop an understanding of how occupational therapists can collaborate internationally, learn from, and support each other, and best apply occupational therapy practice in unique contexts.
British Journal of Occupational Therapy
Respecting global wisdom: Enhancing the cultural relevance of occupational therapy’s theoretical base by Karen Whalley Hammell.
ADAPT – Physiotherapists for Global Health
ADAPT is a recognised Professional Network of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP). The CSP is the professional, educational and trade union body for the UK’s 59,000 chartered physiotherapists, physiotherapy students and support workers.
Ubuntu Hub – Resources
Ubuntu hub is a non-profit research and educational team. The aim is to help improve the lives of children with developmental disabilities, and their families. Ubuntu hub is a nonprofit research and educational hub based in the International Centre for Evidence in Disability at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
CanChild – Resources
The overarching goal of CanChild is to maximize the quality of life and participation of children and youth with a variety of developmental conditions, along with their families, through evidence-based clinical and health services research.
IAACD – International Alliance of Academies of Childhood Disability – Knowledge Hub
IAACD aims to improve the life chances and participation of disabled children and young people in their people.
RECYCLE FOR REHAB, BY HEATHER ANGILLEY
Appropriate Paper-based Technology is dedicated to the production of useful articles from waste cardboard and paper. The concept began in Zimbabwe in the 1970s with Bevill Packer, a college lecturer……
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE
Appropriate paper-based technology (APT) is used to provide postural support for children with cerebral palsy (CP) in low-resourced settings. This pilot study aimed to evaluate the impact of APT on the children’s and families’ lives.