Adapting "Portage" for neurological patients.
Portage is a home-based teaching technique for mentally handicapped children. It would also appear to be useful for some neurologically impaired people. This paper describes how Portage has been adapted for brain-damaged adults. Three examples are given of Portage type programmes. The first describes the use of checklists for assessment of a blind aphasic woman who had suffered anoxia. The second describes part of the treatment of a woman who developed encephalitis which left her with quadriplegia. The final example outlines the treatment of a patient who had a subarachnoid haemorrhage which resulted in a fear of walking alone.
D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D001925:Brain Damage, Chronic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans