Increasing Adaptive Babycare Resources and Intervention Supports with Parents and Caregivers with Physical or Vision Disabilities (NIDILRR 90IFDV0021; 2021-2024), Megan Kirshbaum, PI

A monochrome photo of a mother pushing her child in a baby carrier modified and attached to a walker.
An adaptive babycare device.

Through the Looking Glass has been awarded a 3-year National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research Field Initiated Projects (Development) grant. This project will build on TLG’s extensive history of research and intervention work with parents with disabilities, with a goal to increase support for parents and caregivers with physical or vision disabilities to complete child caregiving tasks and routines. This project has three objectives:

  1. Increase the availability of online resources for parents with disabilities to enhance awareness of and access to adaptive babycare services and supports.
  2. Increase the availability of online resources and professional networking opportunities for occupational therapy professionals to support adaptive babycare intervention.
  3. Increase the capacity of the occupational therapy workforce to provide adaptive babycare assessment and intervention.

This project involves three sets of research and project development activities culminating in a range of resources for parents and professionals.

Our national surveys have closed. Please check this site regularly as we will be adding new resources for parents, caretakers, and professionals; and providing updates about presentations and publications. We will be posting information about the next phase of our project soon.

Questions? For more information contact TLGresearch@lookingglass.org