Is assistive equipment liberating or labelling?

Strategies can help make life easier for a disabled person and the family. For instance arranging the furniture in a room and leaving it that way can make it easy for a person with visual impairment to move around.

  As well as strategies, using tools for living  can help. Many can be made simply and cheaply without needing large factories. These can be made in developing countries and low-income areas without huge start-up costs.

These include:

• furniture such as supportive or positioning seating or standing frames,
• everyday living devices such as handgrips on kitchen tools
• simple mobility assistive devices such as a ride-on horse or walking frame.

People Potential does training in designing and making these. Assistive equipment that can be made locally in centres, at home or in small workshops, can be maintained and adapted as improvements or change happens. The user can have important input in the process.

So....... the assistive equipment   will be liberating!