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(b) Occupational Therapy - Handicapped
The services continue to operate from the Occupational
Therapy Centre at 104 Westbury Road, New Maiden, and the classes that
were held until the end of April when a senior occupational therapist
resigned for personal reasons, were as follows:
Number of persons
attending
Tuesday (all day) 16-18
Wednesday (morning) Art Class 6
Wednesday (afternoon) 12
Thursday (afternoon) 10
Friday (afternoon) 12
After this date, there was a variation in the classes and
the Thursday afternoon craft class had to be discontinued, but an
outwork class was substituted.
Another occupational therapist resigned for personal reasons
at the end of October which meant a further curtailment of the craft
classes, but in their places were substituted outwork classes.
The small number of handicapped persons who attended for
craft classes continued to produce articles that were saleable through
the trade and orders have continued to be received.
A wide range of crafts continued to be taught at this centre,
(c) Aids and Adaptations
The senior technical instructor was off sick for some
considerable time and the assistant technical instructor carried on
with the work of dealing with the aids and adaptations, and during the
year a total of 120 aids and adaptations were completed and this total
included the backlog of 22 which was outstanding at the 31st December
1967. The completed aids were as follows;
Bathroom aids (special seats, rails etc.) 65
Ramps for invalid chairs 11
Structural alterations to premises 7
Others (walking aids, lifting poles etc.) 37
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