Solutions

Here you will find an archive of many previous REMAP solutions. These may be pieces of bespoke equipment or adaptations that have been made by REMAP volunteers. To find out more about an item, please click view details.

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Custom Bathboard

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The client required a bathboard to assist their access to bathing facilities in a care home. View Details

Extra height for a horse mounting step

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The local Riding for the Disabled needed an additional step for their mounting platform. The young clients are getting smaller and the ponies bigger so the steps that are currently used were not quite high enough. View Details

Sensory Regulation Spinner

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Sam is the teacher of 3 to 6 year olds, with severe learning difficulties in Purple Class at The Milestone School Longlevens. He came to us with this challenge All the children in Purple Class have severe learning difficulties.  Most... View Details

Games console for people with disabilities

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Carers supporting people with dementia wanted a game that could occupy and stimulate them whilst also offering a useful way of assessing an individuals health status. View Details

Wheelchair shooting table

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To construct a rigid but foldable table adapted to shooting regulations for a lightweight manual wheelchair for a client with limited mobility who wished to enter Paralympic level competitions.   View Details

Personal location tracker

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A 16 year old with Down Syndrome and autism is unsafe out and about on his own and needs 24 hour supervision. He has a tendency to suddenly decide he needs to go out of the house on his own.... View Details

Trampoline Transfer Device

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A 23-year-old client of small stature with Autism and profound mental health problems requires 24-hour care and lives in a residential home. He uses a trampoline for recreational purposes but was having difficulty getting on and off it even with... View Details

Games for Autistic Boy

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Stan has a learning disability, autism, sensory processing disorder. Stan has an inquisitive mind and likes to predict a sequence of events and then test it. Stan needed more complex cause and effect toys than pre-school toys but they needed... View Details

I can make a hot cup of tea for my friends & I am Blind!

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To enable a blind man to make a hot cup of tea with milk without assistance. View Details

Vibration therapy for child

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A paediatric physiotherapist had been working, unsuccessfully, to improve the walking posture of a child with a rare condition. The child had become a toe walker and, despite focussed physiotherapy and targeted botox treatments, the toe walking remained.  Her previous... View Details

Lateral Anti-Tip Stabilisers

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The School OT reported: "An eleven year old boy with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), global developmental delay, and hypotonia, demonstrates some sensory processing issues, and finds it difficult to remain seated in class, which is impacting on his function and... View Details

Play Guard

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The client is a 54 year old lady with a severe learning disability, Bipolar, and lives in a residential 24 hour supported placement with two other residents. She has limited activities that she appears to enjoy or engage in, but... View Details

Modified Bike

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Olivia wanted to cycle, but has low muscle tone, so can only pedal a few turns on her own. When younger, she had a toddler bike with a push handle, whereby the parents could control direction and speed; and with... View Details

Activity Board

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An activity board was required for a special needs class of 5-7 year old children, consisting of a wall mounted panel with simple everyday activities fixed to it allowing the children to interact with them. The items are to be... View Details

Children’s Indoor Sensory Swing

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My autistic son would often seek out sensory input.He would want to rock & swing but would not want to go outside.My son would not want to wear shoes, socks coats, sunscreen or sometimes  any clothes but  would want to... View Details

Feeding pump support bracket

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Cot before the modification A young autistic child requires feeding from a feeding pump through a tube directly into his stomach overnight. He plays with the pump settings resulting in his feed being interrupted and possible hypoglycaema. A means of... View Details

Communication aid harness

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Aluminium mount with detent pin Tom’s speech therapists were keen that he should have his Communicator with him at all times. The normal arrangement of a shoulder strap meant that he could swing the device, which while he enjoyed doing... View Details

Stairgates

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Rails at top of stairs … … and with board in place Bottom of stairs A mother of three autistic children requires robust gates at the top and bottom of her stairs to prevent falls. Standard stairgates for toddlers are... View Details

Squeeze machine

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This is the third Squeeze machine Essex North has made. They are all similar being two air mattresses constrained so that a person lying between them will be squeezed once they are inflated to provide a calming effect on the... View Details

High security child gate

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The client is a child with severe autism who ‘escapes’ from his bedroom at night, disturbing the household.  The family have tried stairgates and a high ‘dog gate’ over the bedroom doorway, but he has worked out ways to scale... View Details

Monorail doorway closure

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New upper doors closed … … and open. Pole to open and close the upper doors Client has a monorail running from the bedroom to the bathroom which means that the bedroom door does not close. The client is a... View Details

Restraint harnesses

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Harness for use in vehicles Harness for use while walking – rear view … … and front Client is a very active adult with learning difficulties and uses a Model 28 Crelling restraint harness when travelling in a vehicle (in... View Details

Scooter board

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Scooter board Guard around casters to deter little fingers An autistic child needs a scooter board to aid sensory development of a size larger than commercially available ones. The board was fitted with a clear plastic cup, cut to a... View Details

Child-proof lock for fridge-freezers

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Some autistic children have a compulsion to raid the fridge, which gives rise to a need for a child-proof lock that is easily controlled by the parents. Fridge-freezers usually have provision to mount the doors on either side, so there... View Details