Dining with Dignity

Novel Utensils Allow Physically Challenged to Dine in Style - with Maura Graber, dining authority, "etiquette sleuth" & Director of The RSVP Institute of Etiquette. Discussion of "The What-lery of Cutlery" (more)

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Howto & Style

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• etiquette
• dining
• physically
• challenged
• stroke
• victims
• spinal
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[gastondufus]

Glad to see the longer version with more gadgets.  Pretty cool!

[daxyoaky]

This is very useful information! I'll pass it along to friends. Thanks.

[bingbangbonification]

These are truly wonderful! Thanks for letting others know these are available.

[rescuegalful]

This is really wonderful information! It is great you are educating people about these utensils. :)

[forkergirl]

Just wonderful! A big concern of Limited Fork Theory is access; I am particularly interested in aesthetic forms that offer multiple modes of sensory engagement so that there is a rich, full, complex experience for any of the senses

(though I have a long way to go with olfactory considerations; smell is incidental instead of an essential part of my work so far, other than meals at home, but typing this now, I'm getting ideas).

I am a big fan of adaptive approaches.

[kimgolfwidow]

This is a great video. I had never seen the one handed eating utensil that cuts. Very cool. I'm an occupational therapist and we order stuff like this for our patients quite often. The cup with the cut out that is shown is demonstrated incorrectly. The cut out is for the nose. You would place your mouth on the normal looking edge of the cup and when you tilt the cup up to drink from it, the cut out is to clear your nose. It is used for those with neck immobility, etc. Loved this video!

[PBfromoc]

Really Interesting! Thanks for the help identifying that potato fork too.

[mangoesintoabar]

Showed this to my dad. He loved it!

[ginger909]

Love that you did this. I am sending this link on to a friend who has MS.

[rareutensil]

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! The nurses here loved this information!