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. 2017 Jul 24;6:264. doi: 10.4102/ajod.v6i0.264
Questions asked to parents/caregivers of children with SB
-How has been the experience of taking care of your child?
-Can you share the experience of feeding your child?
-Can your child suck milk properly? Can your child chew soft foods?
-Can your child swallow food properly? Is your child able to feed itself?
-What happens when your child wants to eat or drink something? Can she/he express the need for something to eat or drink?
-Can she/he feed herself? Can your child sit during feeding and bathing? Can she/he dress and undress himself?
-How is toileting done?
-Can your child show the need to go to pass urine? Open the bowel?
-Can your child brush her/his teeth?
-Can she manage her/his shoes? Socks?
-Can your child talk? Can your child communicate?
-Can your child pick up objects?
-How is the activity in the hands? Can your child play with the hands? Can your child lift up objects?
-How is the movement in bed? Can your child turn in bed? Change positions in bed?
-How is the mobility in your child out of bed? Can your child crawl? Stand, walk, run?
-Can your child carry small things when crawling, walking?
-Is your child able to move in the home and outside the home?
-How is the balance in sitting? When bathing? When eating?
-Does your child go to school?
-Does your child go to church?
-Can your child play alone, with peers?
-Can your child play with adults?
-Does your child participate in home activities?
-Does your child recognise her/his name? respond to stimulus?
-How does your child relate with the family members and other people?
-Can your child recognise familiar faces?
-How is the sense of hearing in your child?
Questions asked to youths with SB
-How independent are you?
-How do you manage your bladder and bowel activities?
-How many times do you open the bowels in a day?
-What do you use for protection if you cannot control your bladder and bowel?
-Do you manage to clean yourself after using the toilet?
-Can you manage to prepare water for a bath if you have no tap water?
-Can you dress yourself and undress?
-Who manages your shoes? Socks?
-Can you button up your shirt?
-What are your responsibilities?
-How much do you participate in activities of the home like cooking, sweeping and drawing water?
-Do you participate in any activities outside the home?
If so, what activities?
-What roles do you play at home?
-How is the laundry done?
-Who washes and irons your clothes?
-How entrusted are you in family chores?
-Can you go to the shops to buy things?
-How is the sensation in the legs?
-Can you feel when you touch your feet?
-Do you manage to check your skin in your feet?
-Can you sweep your bedroom? Other rooms in the house?
-Can you go visiting alone?
-How involved are you in food preparation?
-Can you make your own food?
-Can you help prepare food for the family
-How mobile are you and how do you function in the home?
-How is your relationship with family members and non-family members? Do you have friends? Do you visit them?
-Do they visit you? What games do you enjoy watching? Do you play any games at all? What games do you like playing?
-Do you go to school?
-If in school, how is your experience?
-Have you been to college?
-If so, how was your experience in college?
Questions discussed with caregivers of children with SB
-Can we discuss experiences of taking care of our children
-How has been the experience of feeding the children?
-Can your child express the desire to eat and drink?
-How can you tell that your child wants something to eat or drink?
-Let us discuss issues of movement:
-Can one share how her child moves in the house from one place to another?
-How is the experience of standing, walking and running?
-Can we talk about movements the children can do:
-Is there any form of activity in the arms?
-Can anything be lifted?
-Can your child touch its mouth?
-Is there any movement in bed?
-Can your child come to sitting from lying in bed?
-Let us talk about communication and relationships
-How does your child relate with people around and those who visit in the home?
-Can your child talk?
-Can your child communicate the need to eat, drink, go to the toilet or even the need to play or others?
-Let us talk about participation of our children:
-What activities does your child do to participate in the activities of the home?
-Does your child participate in home activities? Bathing experience?
-Can your child brush her/his teeth?
-Can she/he dress himself?
-Let us talk about personal care:
-Does the child play with others?
-Can your child feel when you touch the legs and feet?
-Does your child go to school?
-Can she/he manage her/his shoes?
-Can she/he show the need to go to pass urine?
Questions discussed with youths with SB
-Can we discuss our personal experience of independence
-How independent are we in feeding?
-Can you express what you desire to eat and drink?
-Let us discuss issues of movement:
-How mobile are you? Can anyone share the experience of moving in the house from one place to another? How are the standing, walking and running?
-Can we talk about your movements:
-Is there any form of activity in the arms?
-Can anything be lifted?
-Can you touch the mouth?
-How is the movement in bed?
-Can you come to sitting from lying in bed?
-Let us talk about communication and relationships
-How easy is it for you to communicate?
-How do you relate with people around and those who visit in the home?
-Can you communicate the need to eat, drink, go to the toilet or even the need to do other things?
-Let us talk about your participation:
-What activities do you participate in? Do you participate in home activities? Bathing experience? Can you cook?
-Can you brush your teeth?
-Can you dress yourself?
-Let us talk about personal care:
-Are you able to take care of your personal needs?
-Can you manage your shoes?
-Can you tell the need to go to pass urine?
-Can you feel when you touch the legs and feet?
-Do you go to school or college?