DEVELOPMENTAL AIDS
Sitting Aids
A wide variety of early sitting aids are included in the chapter on cerebral palsy (see
p. 97 and 98). Special seating adaptations for chairs and wheelchairs are in Chapter 65.
Here we include a few more ideas:
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CP
seat for child
with spasticity
who has
knock-knee
contractures
(one of many
possibilities,
see p. 5)
holes for straps
A log or roll seat helps
the child with spasticity
or poor balance sit
more securely with legs
spread. Log should be
as high as the knees.
Leave a little room
between the cut-out
circle in the table and
the child’s belly.
strap for
keeping legs
apart (one
around each
leg and tied
through holes
in sides and
seat)
Tire seat
or swing
bends head,
body, and
shoulders
forward to
help control
spasticity
(see p. 421).
seat for a
child with
spasticity
whose body
stiffens
backward
Design from Handling the Young Cerebral Palsied
Child at Home (see p. 638).
OTHER IDEAS FOR HOLDING LEGS APART
From Don Caston and Healthlink Worldwide
from other parts of this book
A seat and table like this in the form of a
fish on the ocean makes sitting in a special
seat fun. So do the village-made toys
(PROJIMO, seat design by Don Caston).
p. 5, 416
p. 5
p. 7
p. 81, 97 p. 98 p. 609
p. 829
The seat can be used for straight leg
sitting, or put on top of the table for
bent-knee sitting. Other designs include
‘squirrel’ seats on ‘tree’ tables.
For more ideas on adapted seating, see Chapters 9, 35, and 65. Also, see scooters
and walkers with roll seats, p. 98.
disabled village children