Sammons is slowly dropping the items they carried to help spinal cord injury clients 
with no grip.  For example, they used to make a quadknife that they stopped carrying a 
few years ago.  It still is pictured in the catalog  under the Automatic Faucet 
Control.  It shows the person washing it.  Page 554 in the 2002 catalog.  It can be 
worn as shown in the picture or turned the other was on the hand so that the knife 
side is by the 5th digit(for those lacking pronation).  Since I work in SCI we used it 
all the time.  Now there is not a knife available that is sharp enough to cut 
anything.  
I can not remember what the other item that they dropped for SCI clients this last 
year.
We also use splinting material that we attach to various items for example:  electric 
screw driver.  
When I was in school we had local therapists recommend a client who needed something 
made for him that was not available in catalogs or too expensive to buy.  We worked in 
small teams to make the items for the client.  Each team had a different person and 
different item to make.  We made adaptive fishing poles, made it possible for someone 
to be able to hunt again with equipment, made a bathing seat for a child with severe 
deformorties and positioning problems, etc.

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