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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Voice Amplifier

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This project uses a hyper-directional microphone, connected to a small amplifier and loudspeaker, to help the client, who has very quiet speech, be understood whilst in bed. If this helps the client dictate into her mobile phone that will be... View Details

Intravenous Pump – Alarm Monitor

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The client is a mother of one living a with young son estimated at 10-12 years old. She is deaf but can hear well with the aid of hearing aids during daytime. At night she does not wear the hearing... View Details

Fly-by-wire kids tractor

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Reaching the steering on your toy tractor is very frustrating if you are a 20-month old boy. If only you could have a small steering wheel close to your hand that would steer the tractor electrically, like a modern automated... View Details

Sensory woodland bird boxes

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Nidderdale Children’s Resource Centre in Killinghall near Harrogate offers short breaks to children and young people with special needs.  The facility has a sensory garden already, which Remap has helped with in the past, but the dedicated team who run... View Details

Game for Blind or Partially Sighted

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The Essex branch of the charity Deafblind UK found it very difficult to entertain blind or partially sighted people, singularly or in groups, they were aware of a games console made by Essex Central Remap for people with disabilities, but... 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

MaMa T4CE

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The simple domestic oven presents particular design challenges for the engineer.  No more so when the design has to allow for the individual capabilities of a client who is differently abled. The latter means that no one solution will fit... View Details

Positioning Alert

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The client, who has cerebral palsy, did not have the core stability to maintain an upright posture whilst seated. This resulted in the client overcompensating by leaning heavily on her left forearm, placing excessive load through the left shoulder. The... View Details

Talking Archery Target

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  The client is a 10 year old boy who has been totally blind since birth.  He is very determined and has learnt to play a keyboard instrument and to ride a bike in the playground apparently using echo location... View Details

Air Mask Microphone

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The client needs to wear a positive air pressure mask which covers her nose and mouth at all times, but the mask makes it difficult for others to hear her when she speaks. View Details

Child’s voice amplifier

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[caption id="attachment_15643" align="alignleft" width="188"] James using his amplifier[/caption] James is 4 years old and has vocal chord palsy which means that he can only speak with a very quiet voice, due to a paralysed vocal chord. It is less of... View Details

Audible target for blind child

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[caption id="attachment_15245" align="alignleft" width="187"] Throwing ball at sound target[/caption] A blind child requires a target that he can practice throwing a ball at, to develop his ability to identify the direction and distance of sounds in everyday life. View Details

Speech communicator

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The client was introduced to our panel by her OT, she is blind and has exaggerated hand movements and wants to press a buttonto initiate a pre-recorded spoken message as her speech is not always clear.This will improve her ability... View Details

Sip/Puff Guitar Splitter Box

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Client played bass guitar in a band but had MS and had lost the use of his legs, and thus couldn't use the conventional foot operated effects pedal. On discussion all the client needed to do was to switch between... View Details

Vibration seat

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The clients have hearing, learning and some severe agitation problems. A sound vibration seat was constructed. This contains an amplifier and loudspeaker that can be fed from a sound source such as a CD player. When operating, low frequency sounds... View Details

Telephone dialling system for the blind

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An almost blind client, unable to read even large telephone buttons, required a simple dialling system with pre-programmed numbers. The telephone was electrically connected to a commercial pre-programmable speech-recording device mounted in a metal box which houses the control electronics,... View Details

Musical toilet

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The client needed encouragement to use the toilet. Controlled by an ultra-sonic sensor, a battery powered solid state unit was constructed to play appropriate music (the client requested Cliff Richard or Elvis Presley) when the client uses the toilet. A... View Details

Music player

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The client was a totally blind youth with severe learning difficulties. He enjoyed music, and wanted a player that he could control. The equipment was supplied by the client’s parents. It was modified so that it could be powered from... View Details

Modified recorder

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A little girl wanted to learn to play the recorder along with the rest of her class. She dearly wanted to take part, but was unable to as, sadly, she has some fingers missing from each hand. The panel’s engineers... View Details

Manual cellphone switch – ‘Nudger’

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A quadraplegic client has minimal movement in his left hand and would like to be able to independently switch his phone on/off. The ‘Nudger’ consists of a removable holder that attaches to the wheelchair or bedframe, in a position that... View Details

Electronic aid for deaf client

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The client could not tell when he was shouting in a normal conversation. The solution was an electronic belt-mounted aid, which measures the difference between the client’s voice and the ambient noise level. It vibrates when this difference exceeds a... View Details

Door intercom

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Rob, who has multiple sclerosis, lives in a multi-level ground floor house. When not in his wheelchair with ramps down callers assume, due to the time taken to reach the door, that he is out. He needed to communicate easily... View Details

Coin donation box

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The local branch of a national charity asked if we could produce a coin slot device for attracting and accepting donations at fairs, exhibitions etc. The result was a box big enough to hold a plastic bucket which had an... View Details