Caring for People with Multiple Disabilities: An Interdisciplinary Guide for Caregivers

by Robin Tapp Gonzalez, Jan Tronson-Simpson, Cindy French, et al.

Caregivers can make a marked difference in a clients life, particularly if they are well informed & can actively participate in therapeutic intervention. Caring for People with Multiple Disabilities is designed as a manual to give caretakers an understanding of therapeutic principles & their application. The direct-care staff can then apply this information to specific programs or activities of daily living with their clients. This information is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0884503941
• ISBN13: 9780884503941
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Therapy Skill Builders
• Length: 145 Pages

Customer Reviews

For the Caregiver who needs to know what to do how, and why.

I am an early childhood special education teacher, who was recently transferred to a severe and profound disabled classroom full of beautiful kids with intense needs. Teaching them is as much physical and occupational therapy as it is anything else. This book gives a great amount of useful information that any parent, caregiver, teacher, or other person responsible for helping anyone with severe disablities needs and can use. It covers proper positioning, feeding, and dozens of other practical and necessary things to know. This book has enabled me to feel much more knowledgeable, competant, and confident that I am doing "the right things" at the right times for the right reasons. That is worth much more than the price of this book. I couldn't recommend it enough.