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-. --- . 0 "Im" Mcm r,»f1Qà wrnwv1.QT% Av TTTN1& 1988R Pi Prevention and intervention assist the'handicapped By Debbie Luchuk Dr. Jeanne Wilcox, associate professor at the school of speech pathology and audiology at Kent- State lUniversity, spoke at the annual meeting of the Durham Rehabilitation and Treatmnent Centre of Durham Region last Wednesday. Wilcox presented a talk on "Prevention and Intervention" in assisting handicapped children te a fuller li fe. Therapists and those who work with these children might say "hiow can prevention play a role?" when it is evident that they have an unalterable condition, Wilcox said. Wilcox'has developed a concept of alterable and unalterable factors in assessing the needs of these children. Unaltearble condi- tions include brain damnage, chromosomal disorders and cer- tain types of congenital malfor-' mations. But, she pointed out te the large group at the meeting, these things "do not necessarily inake hel impossible."icld verbal communications problenis, functional sensory abilities, func- tional motor abilities, cognition (retardation), psycho-social abili- ties, and self-help abilities. Once the alterables and unalterables of a- situation are identified, early work with the child to reduce the *effects of various disabilities will make their life almost "normal." Wilcox gave the example of two children, the same age, with profound hearing loss. One child, age 10, had unintell igible speech. The other, the sanie age, had virtually unimpired speech. The second girl had early intervention before the impairment becamne a handicap, whereas the other had not. Prevention is to prevent unalterable factors from beconi- ing an impairinent by early assis tance,' Wilcox said. "Sometimes there is an abso- lute inipairment. Prevention in this case is preventing this fromn becoming a handicap (a handicap interferes with ability ta fully participate)." Handicapped children can have barriers removed to raise their ability to an "impirent" level, or as close to "oma"as possible, Wilcox said. Because of a handicap, some- times there are things a child cannot do at ail. In order to prevent *the handicap from becoming a disability (inability ta participate i daily activities), obstclsnrally overcome by the average child have to be removed. The goal of the therapist and centres such as Grandview should be to try to move chilciren froin the cisability level to that of a mild inipairment to normal life, Wilcox said. 'We have a very large task to do to educate pepl about these children. If they'relogvea normal setting, they will not be normal," Wilcox said, referringto the attitude that inipaired cUl- dren should be kept together and should not be encouraged to overcome the obstacles of every day life. '"We're dealing with preven- tion, accessing children into these services, even those only, at risk. We have the dual responsibility to make community opportunities available and to help heiadapt. We can wait untithyfil and pick them up, or we can show theni how to avoid the obstacle," Wilcox concluded. The Grandview Réhabilitation Region provides outpatient care to youths to age 21; physiO- therapy, occupational therapy, and psychosocial therapy are among the services offered children with a disability. Off-facility care is also provided in local nursery school, day care and schools that have need of it for various students. The centre is located at the corner of -Bloor St. E. and Townline St. S. in Oshawa. Durhiam Regional Police are investigating the theft of money from tWo dry cleaners in Whitby on the weekend. An. unknown quantity of money was stolen when a lock to a door was spun off at Sketchely Cleaners at 1801 Dundas St. E. 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