Children and young people’s attitudes to their prosthesis

This conference held on the 28th June at the University of Southampton was the culmination of two years of research which explored children and young peoples' attitudes to their prostheses. This was the dissemination part of the research project which was quite unique as the conference was designed to be an interactive event to publicise the findings of the research project. Unique because health professionals, parents and carers and children and young people were all involved in hearing about the research and then participating in workshops which explored how they might want to take the research forward. There were also fun workshops involving making plaster casts of arms and legs.

You can download the presentations by clicking on the right hand column:

• Key Note Speaker, Helen Smith talking about her experience of living through meningococcal septicaemia
• Young people's views of prosthetic limbs - the study results, Maggie Donovan-Hall & Suryana Mohamad
• Implications of the study on the wider community, Sue Banton
• The Role of the Clinician, J. A. Lindsay, FRCSEd.; A. G. Sharpe, MBAPO

In the evening children and their families were invited to attend a  party as a thank you for supporting the research. Many of these families are now keen to be ambassadors for the findings of the research and many friendships were formed.

Partners in the Research Project are:
STEPS
The Meningitis Trust
University of Southampton
West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

This event was funded by the Big Lottery Fund

We would like to thank the sponsors’ of the Children’s activity programmes and party. Please visit their websites on the links on the right.
Otto Bock Healthcare PLC
Opcare Ltd
Dorset Orthopaedic Company Ltd
Ossur UK Ltd