Dear Colleagues

In collaboration with local universities we are looking at establishing a trust to developed a web-based, open access movement therapy manual, The aim of the project is to provide occupational and physical therapists with access to resources about the assessment and treatment of children with developmental disabilities, especially those working in countries where access to continuing professional development is not readily available and information in the standard textbooks does not cover the particular circumstances of therapists working in developing countries.

We are looking for input from paediatric therapists from around the world to guide us in what content people would like to see in a textbook. What are your CPD needs? What areas of practice would you like improve? What practical skills would you like to acquire? What sort of patients do you see?

Please take some time to post you ideas about what you would like to see in a web-based manual.


Pam Versfeld
Project Co-ordinator
Cape Town, South Africa
Additional Comment I forgot:
More about the web-manual project

The Paediatric Movement Therapy Web-manual Project aims to create an open-access, web-based, collaboratively-written, interactive manual for occupational and physical therapists working with children with disabilities.

Effective clinical decision making in paediatric occupational and physiotherapy is not possible without an extensive knowledge of the differences in cognitive, emotional, language and motor skills at different ages, as well as the short term and long term impact of the social and physical environment, injury and disease on the child’s developing systems.

Students and newly qualified physical and occupational therapists also have difficulties in linking the information they gather about a child’s family circumstances, age, impairments and functional limitations to decisions about assessment and intervention strategies.

The Web-manual Project aims to provide free, easily accessible and interlinked information (and links to information) that will improve the therapists’ skills in working with children and their families to enhance function and participation in a way that is appropriate to the child, the family and the social context.

Pam Versfeld
Project coordinator



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