Independent Living Institute

by I. Oldenkamp, Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology

(Permission has been kindly given by I. Oldenkamp, Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology to allow the Independent Living Institute to present this excert from the Tricycle Production Manual.)

The Tricycle Production Manual has been developed for basically skilled and equipped workshops in developing countries. The manual is, as much as possible, adjusted to the knowledge and experience of workshop workers in these countries. It contains mostly drawings and minimal text to keep the manual accessible to a large group of users.

Paper prepared by Yukiko Oka, Programme Specialist, Social Development Division
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
presented at the Post Congress Seminar on Social Rehabilitation
Rehabilitation International 10 -11 September 1988 Hamamatsu, Japan

Klassisk pianomusik.

Man: Vad fint du har gjort, och vad gott det luktar.

Kvinna: Tack. Hoppas du gillar det här vinet också. Kan du förresten tända ljusen?

Man: Javisst.

Kvinna: Sådär, skål och välkommen då.

Man: Skål…. Mmmm….

Kvinna: Det var inte illa. 

Man: Nej.

Kras! av glas. 

Man: Oj, akta, vänta. Jag hämtar nåt att torka med.

Kvinna: Åh, nej, ljuset! Nu brinner duken också. 

Persons with extensive disabilities need assistance by other people in their everyday lives with such activities as getting bathed and dressed or going to the toilet; with shopping, preparing meals, cleaning or doing the laundry; with such responsibilities within the family as doing the practical tasks involved in raising small children or assisting one' s aging parents. Assistants help the user at work, about town and on travel. They assist in communicating or in structuring the day, as the case might be. In brief, assistants help with those activities which the user would have done by himself or herself, had it not been for a physical, sensory, mental or intellectual disability.

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© The Norwegian State Council on Disability
Translation:
Ingrid Bugge from Norwegian

Photos:
Olav Rand Bringa
Edel Kristin Heggem
Anders Dahlquist, Autofill Europe AB, Stockholm
Kjell Norvin

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