23 December
2005
I am sorry not to have replied sooner to
your e-mail about the CBR empowerment website. I find it very
clear and creative. The whole AIFO website is a very useful
resource and tool for me. Keep up the good work!
Warm regards,
Gehane Sharkawy, Cairo, Egypt
20 November
2005
Congratulations on the development of the
excellent training package on "Promoting Empowerment
Through Community-Based Rehabilitation". The use of
stories and drawings to to emphasize key points is brilliantly
done, and can be understood by those with limited formal
education.
My only concern is that the pictures, the
originals of which appear to be very well and carefully done, appear
on the site in a foggy, ghost-like manner. Can something be
done about this? In some of the other "courses" the
drawings come out very sharp and clear.
Keep up the good work. Best wishes,
David Werner
14 July 2005
Your courses on line are very
interesting. It would be useful to have a pdf version on the
website to dispatch them as tool kits. I would like to save your
documents on my PC but it's not possible with the Htm version.
Can you please send me the CBR
courses in PDf version ( if you have), if not, I would be
interested by the CR-ROM.
Thanks, Alexandra Bauloye,
Perwez, Belgium
Comments: Thank
you for your message. At present we do not have the PDF or the
CD rom version of the online courses. I hope that the PDF
version of the courses can be prepared and put on the internet
in the next few months.
May 2005:
id21.org
The importance
of AIFO online resources on disability and rehabilitation was
acknowledged by id21.org managed by Institute of
Development Studies in Sussex (UK) in its newsletter
"id21 insights".
Link to website
of id21.org
20 February
2005
I've just had a
chance to look at the AIFO webpage, especially the 4 CBR
learning courses - excellent! I found the one on surveys to be
very well done and plan to refer others to it. The ones
concerning children are also very useful, but out of the ILO
mandate. However, the photo images in the one on CBR basics
didn't come up as I clicked through the pages. Also, please
review the link on the second page concerning the UN agencies
CBR Joint Position Paper. When one clicks on the link one goes
to the Helsinki International Consultation website, where only
the 2001 draft of the CBR JPP is listed. As you know, there is
now the final version, published in 2004. I can send you both
hard and electronic copies of it if you don't have it. It is
also available electronically in French, Spanish and Arabic. We
would kindly request you to make a direct link to it when
referring to the CBR JPP. Also kindly note that the JPP is only
agreed on by WHO, ILO and UNESCO - not the five agencies
mentioned in the course text. Congratulations on excellent additions
to the body of CBR training materials!
Best regards. Bob
Robert Ransom,
ILO, Geneva
Comments:
Thanks for the clear and precise comments. The corrections will
be made as soon as possible.
20 February
2005
At last I am
able to send my comments in relation to the AIFO CBR
Training Courses. Congratulations on developing a most useful
tool for CBR training. I hope that when the CD-ROM is
completed, I will be able to get a CD. I would definitely like
to use the material in our CBR training programme, as well as
on the training programme for the Rehabilitation Assistants.
General
Comments
The material is
well presented and easy to follow. The pictures used enriched
the descriptions or explanations of the different sections. As a general
suggestion, is it possible to include a list of all the slides
at the beginning of the course. This can assist in supporting the
interactive style, as persons would have opportunity to move
easily from one slide to another as they may feel the
need. I
must say that I was particularly pleased to see that examples
from the Guyana Programme were included in the material.
Specific
comments
Play
Activities for Child Development
Presenting the
material in the context of human rights was important in
getting the user of the material to get a sense of the value
of play and the importance of recognising it as a right for
all children including children with disabilities. Only slide 23 seem to
be numbered. Please disregard comment, if I overlooked the
other numbers. In slide 4, mention is made ......."these
organs and senses sre present as germs and seeds to be
nurtured......etc." . Maybe germs could be deleted,
as I am not sure about nurturing them. In slide 8, the child
seems to clumsy - 'be' was omitted. In that same
section, ......'aware of its body parts' could read
'aware of his or her body parts'.
Delays in Child
Development
Just a few
typographical errors: Slide 3 - let's first look, Slide 10 - reasons
for delays, instead of reasons of delays, Slide 11 - Opportunity
and support are given
Readers can be
given some tasks in this course e.g. observe developmental
milestones in children of different ages. Such an exercise
would support the interactive style of the presentation of the
material
Basics
of CBR
The information
was very succintly presented. The explanations and examples
given were very easy to follow. However, I was not able
to open the pictures. This did not take away from the
display of the information.
Conducting
Surveys
This course sets
out very clearly, key points related to conducting disability
surveys. Again, maybe some exercises can be included e.g. ask
readers to try mapping of community or to try using the form.
Hope that these
comments are of some value. Warmest regards, Sincerely Geraldine
Geraldine
Mason Halls
Consultant, National CBR Programme, Guyana
Comment: These
are very useful comments - precise and clear. The idea of
putting a course index at the beginning of a course is very
interesting.
2 February
2005
Thank you for
sending these pages to me, my congratulations, They look very helpful indeed. I
particularly like the one on CBR and on surveys. I don't think the
repetition matters AT ALL. I think things need to be repeated and I think
users may only use one section at a time, so repetition from section
to section does not matter at all.
Concerning
ideas on improvements ... Perhaps some assignments might add to their value for
instance... go out into your community and observe children playing and
then try to categorize what they may have learnt from this experience..... or
look at you CBR programme and decide which model your programme fits
best? Medical social etc... Could your programme be improved by including
activities that reflect a different (additional model approach) If so how?
Some of the discussion questions that we used in the CBR book from the Uganda
conference might also be helpful and you are very welcome to use them. I
think that an interactive approach would generate more participation and
great usage of the information that you are presenting.
With your
permission I will try to arrange a session to share your page with our current
students and then we can spend some time looking at them together and give you
feedback. Would you like us to do that?
Sally Hartley,
ICH, London
Comment: Sally's suggestions
are very useful and will be added to the courses very soon.
Feedback from students will also be appreciated. Sunil
24 January
2005
I would like to congratulate
you and AIFO on this this very nice and useful initiative! I
will need to go through the course in more detail, but going
through it in 'scan mode', it looks excellent! Would you have an
offline version available by any chance, for people whose
internet access is not good enough (or too expensive!) to do
this online?
Wim van Brakel, Senior Public
Health Advisor, Royal
Tropical Institute (KIT), Leprosy
Unit, Amsterdam
Comment: Offline versions are
being planned.
18
January 2005
I wish to circulate it among staff
and parents and get feedback for more detailed comments. I would
request for a hard copy of all courses with photographs, if it
is possible for you to send by mail. As taking a print out will
utilize lot of printer's ink due to photos. (sorry, but we are
so tight with resources that we try to save each rupee. This
will save us about Rs 6,000)
Best regards.
Farhat, Pakistan
13 January 2005
Congratulations on
some fabulous material! Do you have a file you could send to me? I'd
love to use some of these play ideas for the book on Helping
Children with Emotional and Behavioral Problems, that I am now
working on,
Cheers,
Darlena
Note: Following this comment, the whole course has
been added as text file on the last page of the course.
