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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Car Wheel Changing Teaching Aid

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A school in Derby, which specialises in teaching students with learning difficulties and special needs, asked the Derby Remap panel to provide an unusual teaching aid. The students are much more comfortable learning about practical rather than academic subjects and... View Details

Cot Adaptation

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The client is a young dad, he wants to be able to get his child in and out of the cot from a sitting position. drawing of cot side, overlay frame and sliding doors. Finished overlay frame with doors fitted. Overlay... View Details

Adjustable wheelchair controller bracket

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Client with short arms requires an adjustable bracket for the controller of her wheelchair to make it easier to reach and to move out of the way when not needed. View Details

Tandem buggy

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Client has a disabled child in a disabled buggy and a new born baby in a standard buggy. She wishes to have some means to take them out together. View Details

Reading stand

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A child with spina bifida  also has difficulties with eye sight and neck pain and he struggles to look down at what he is reading. He finds it much more comfortable to look directly in front of him.  He requires... View Details

Book stands

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A special needs school required book stands for its pupils, but found that those from the preferred school supplier too expensive. View Details

One-handed ponytail tie

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The client is a young stroke patient who wished to tie her hair up into a pony tail using just her non-dominant left hand. View Details

Bed controller access control

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Client is 18 years old with learning difficulties and uses a profiling bed with a wired controller. His carers need a method to prevent him from misusing the controller. View Details

Wheeled garden tool holder

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[caption id="attachment_15623" align="alignleft" width="206"] Wheeled trolley[/caption] A gardening charity needed a means for a volunteer with severe back pain to carry documents and small gardening tools etc around the gardening site. View Details

Electric grabber

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[caption id="attachment_15515" align="alignleft" width="188"] Zoe enjoying her new grabber[/caption] Zoe required a grabber to be able to pick things up from the floor or other places.  The grabber had to be able to grasp large items, such as her teddy... 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

Jack for wheelchair archer

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A wheelchair user wishes to return to archery. To avoid the bow clashing with one of the wheelchair wheels, he removes one wheel and supports the chair on a jack. A change of wheelchair means the jack no longer fits... View Details

Push Button Sewing Machine Control

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He employed his full time assistants to operate the foot pedal of the sewing machine.   He wished to control the sewing machine himself.Additional benefits would include:Timed interval between pushing the button and stitch (so he can prepare the work and... 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

Mud kitchen

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The special needs school required an outdoor mud kitchen for children in wheelchairs to play. View Details

Blind Go board

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A blind person wished to play the ancient Chinese game of Go. View Details

Modify sit-to-stand aid

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[caption id="attachment_15218" align="alignleft" width="141"] Modified ReTurn7400 sit-to-stand aid in use[/caption] The client's feet are splayed and this means she cannot position herself far enough forward to safely stand on the platform of her ReTurn7400 sit-to-stand aid. View Details

Transfer Board

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Reuben has no legs, and prosthetics are not possible. He needs assistance to get into his wheelchair, and he needed assistance to get to the toilet. Commercial transfer boards are available, but they are too small and unstable for Reuben's... 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

Christmas wrapping station

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Radio push-button controls

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The client's advancing dementia made it difficult to operate the baffling array of buttons on his new DAB radio.  View Details

Short child’s access steps

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Fold out standing platform

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Margaux has skeletal dysplasia (dwarfism) and struggles to use bathroom facilities, particularly the washbasin, as a result. Her parents have tried various steps but they are very difficult for Margaux to use and lack sufficient stability. She really needed a... View Details

Mountain climbing wheelchair

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The “Snowdon Push” is a fund-raising challenge organised by Back Up Trust – a charity that supports people with a spinal cord injury. Teams of between 10 and 16 people aim to conquer Mount Snowdon, which at over 3,500 ft... View Details