Community Based Rehabilitation

One of the most difficult parts of doing therapy in a community setting is quickly finding the one or two things that you can teach the caregiver or finding one adjustment you can make to improve the child with a disability’s quality of life.

Positioning and proper support for children with cerebral palsy is crucial to their development and also to interacting and engaging with their environment.

These small acts of independence are difficult for Ali to achieve and we are encouraged by his and his aunt’s following through with our advice and persevering.

“Look Mom I can see out the window now!” said little Marat* as he sat in a chair that our CBR team is creating for him especially. 

Members of our team in Kazakhstan, in partnership with others in Almaty, have been using their occupational therapy and caring skills with people with disabilities.

Both organizations continue to work in partnership with the mom and her son and we are seeing positive changes in their lives.

Anna is always going to need a lot of help, but if we can make small changes like how she is positioned at home, it’s going to have big long term effects on how tight her muscles become and how much movement and quality of life she has in the future.

This was also a turning point for the team, as training others to recognise the needs of children with disabilities and to identify the ways in which they can help is one of its main aims and goals.