FEEDING DEVICE

Design Concept by
Shaju V Cherian & Dipu K C
 HOW A PERSON WITH UPPER LIMB
INABILITY / ABSENCE CAN BE FEEDED
ACTIVITY OF DAILY LIVING STARTS
FROM HOME
 IT REQUIRE …...............

...HELP OF OTHERS
…..SPECIAL ADAPTIVE DEVICES
…....MORE TRAINING
…............CLEANLINESS
…..............MORE FREEDOM FOR FEEDING
AVAILABLE ADAPTIVE DEVICES
FOR FEEDING
This includes plates and bowls that will not allow food to
fall off or out of the container and will not slide around
and simple as a clip on guard that attaches to any
normal plate or bowl
Plates with lip on the edge that prevents food from
coming off the plate. Other designs do not slide around
on the table.
Commonly keep the plates and bowls on the table are
mats and grip bottoms.
But individual in question has tremors, special bowls and
plates that have a suction base that will attach to the
table. This base will prevent the dinnerware from getting
knocked around when the container or table is bumped
WHICH DEVICE SUITS YOUR CHILD ?
No single device
can serve
apart
from your
care
 PROBLEMS
•Often a person with disability have lack of ability in
eating can turn into a power struggle, even when
the initial underlying cause of the difficulty is
disability.

•A person with disability have inability to eat can

cause great stress for parents and care-givers.
Parents worry that their poor eating will lead to
illness, malnutrition, weight loss and life-long
problems.
 PROBLEMS CONTD….

• In addition, often parents or care givers work

very hard to prepare a nutritious meal for their
child, or any other person in the home with
disability in operating and coordinating hand
and understandably feel angry and upset
when they take more time to feed them.
 RESULT OF PROBLEMS?

These situations can result in parents pleading,

urging, criticizing, threatening or punishing them
in taking time for eating.

Unfortunately persons with disability may then

learn that this is a way of controlling or getting a
reaction from parents or care givers.
 RESULT OF PROBLEMS CONTD…..

• When eating becomes a battle of wills,

parents or care givers cannot win by forcing
them to eat. Force will only aggravate the
problem and children may even choose to
end anger their health rather than give in.
Also geriatric patients feel same as children
 Need of eater device in our case

We had a referred patient who had been disabled by

an accident. Whenever we are visiting him at home,
scene was heartbroken that the person was eating
pieces of banana by his mouth like an animal.
This case lead us to think about an eater device.
Searched on Google for getting any device which helps
to eat this type of disabled. But devices are not suits this
purpose because patient can’t move his shoulders and
flex his elbows.
DISHA FEEDING DEVICE
 WHO CAN USE IT?

Can use by people with involuntary hand function due

to cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, motor neuron
disease, head injuries, spinal injuries, rheumatoid
arthritis, muscular dystrophies, limb amputations,
ataxia, strokes, Parkinson’s disease, learning difficulties
and many others.
FIRST PROTOTYPE
FETURES
 ADVANTAGES

• Interchange from left to right

• Adjustable for person to person
• Light in weight
• Aesthetic acceptance
• Provide independence
 REQUEST TO
CARE GIVERS &
REHABILITATION PROFESSIONALS

• This is a design concept for the feeding of

persons with disability. We request your feed
back to improve the function, adaptability
and use.
 CONCLUSION
Designing a device for persons with
disability is not be generalized and keep in
mind that every differently abled person
requires individual attention and specially
designed devices apart from common
designs. Humanitarian concepts and
evidence based practice can help to design
and give attention to help the PwDs.
 THANK YOU

Shaju V Cherian Dipu K C

B.P.O, Dip(Assistive Devices) MA (sociology),
Fellowship in Hand Splinting in Rehabilitation Dip(Assistive Devices), CPO
Cosmetic Restoration ( Anaplastology) B.Ed (SPECIAL EDUCATION)
RCI Registered Prosthetist Orthotist RCI Registered Rehabilitation Professional
Reg No. A 36439 Reg No. A49024