Publisher's Synopsis
This work provides information from a team of specialists experienced in working with infants through to young adults who are ventilator-assisted. This guide's chapters contain example forms, checklists, and charts to assist professionals and families with rehabilitation, community re-entry, and community integration issues.;Topics addressed include: equipment used with tracheostomy/ventilation; PT/OT/SLP concerns; feeding/swallowing issues; transition from hospital to home; psychosocial issues; personal accounts of life with ventilation; community and national resources for supports; and ideas for normalizing the life of the child. It also contains specific guidance to aid in organizing care and planning for therapy intervention and activities, rounded out by persectives on the adjustment of the child and community integration.
