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Tony:
The Road to Power Mobility
Process Story |
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Lessons
Learned:
- Team collaboration
was vital – lots of competing
concerns needed to be identified, addressed before being
overcome.
- Securing
the funding can be expected to be a lengthy process requiring
dogged persistence.
- The EI team
concluded they should have consulted an AT team available in
the area to make the process more
informed and more
efficient.
- The EI Team
recognized as a key flaw that they had applied no coherent
logical decision making process.
They concluded
that the
process could have been greatly improved by use of
a decision framework throughout the process – from
considering power mobility through power chair evaluation,
to specification, pursuit of funding,
user
training, daily use, and maintenance.
- In retrospect,
the EI team concluded that there might have been other easier
ways to get started, for
example
adapting a
motorized
kids’ toy car.
- The need
for advocacy was continuous from start to finish. Members of
the EI team, the
PT and OT
in particular,
had
to promote their
vision of Tony’s capabilities (cognition,
communication, his desire for independent mobility,
developmental
appropriateness) every
step of the way. Their willingness and ability to
be his vocal advocates was essential and powerful.
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