The above attachment will link you to instructions for building any adaptive piece of furniture for children and people with physical disabilities out of CARDBOARD...yes...CARDBOARD. Adaptive devices, OT, and engineering go hand in hand. My Tuesday night seminar with Jennifer Buxton, an Assistive Technology Practitioner at Tufts has become one of my favorite classes this semester. I look forward to a design project in engineering in the local community toward the end of the semester.
Tufts OT and Engineers have only 1 class available to them as of right now to partner for building technology to help people with learning, physical and mental disabilities. To me, that seems ridiculous--especially since Robotics in OT has been given grant money, research, and success at an institutional level that I witnessed at the Medical University of South Carolina.
