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Every individual's body is different in size, weight, build, then add to this that every child with cerebral palsy is physically affected in many different ways. Then consider the rate at which children grow, the environment in which many disabled children live and that many are dependent to some extent on help in everyday life from a carer, you may then start to understand the complex design that is essential to ensure that these children can to grow healthily, learn and play.
Motivation's design of supportive seating enables children with cerebral palsy to do just that: to be active, healthy and learn just as any other child. The first supportive seating wheelchair was designed in Russia in 1994 called the Moti. Following its success it was introduced in Lithuania as well and since then it has been further developed by both Motivation and by our local partners in Eastern Europe because of its appropriateness to that environment. In 1998 Motivation developed of a new Moti for the UK market; it is now called the Moti Activ and is being produced and sold by a British manufacturer.
Motivation has since then worked in Bangladesh in 1998 and Sri Lanka in 2000 to introduce supportive seating designs that are appropriate for each countries. We trained staff to prescribe and fit the products for each child and to adjust the chair as the child grows. We are presently working in Sri Lanka to introduce a clip-on, clip-off design that will be distributed through a network of community clinics. This will enable Motivation reach out to the many impoverished families who cannot travel to centre-based services.