The New Rifton Seating Worksheet
Rifton provides quality customer service and continually seeks ways to improve a customer’s experience when interacting with us. Recently we have improved our seating recommendation services to help...
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Feeding Chairs for Children with Special Needs
Optimal Positioning, Successful Feeding Therapists, teachers and parents are well aware that children with cerebral palsy and other disabilities can face more challenges (and pose more challenges) than...
Enabling Floor Play for Development
Floor play is an important part of physical and mental development for every child. Picture a healthy toddler, sitting independently on the floor and using his hands to discover and interact with the surrounding...
Caption Contest – And the Winner is…
The winning caption is "Sometimes a Girl Just Has to Shop" Congratulations Rosie! Our photographer captured this moment during a Rifton photo shoot at a local facility. Write a caption and submit it...
Activity Chair Success, One Child at a Time
Contributed by Amorita Durgin, Account Manager Before ten-year-old Thomas received his new activity chair much of his day was spent transferring in and out of different pieces of equipment. His feeding...
Sharing Our Abilities
I just returned from the Abilities Expo 2012 in New Jersey. Those of you who’ve been there will know the parade of families and caregivers I saw all weekend—families who are struggling against enormous...
Dynamic Seating is Important
To understand why dynamic seating is important we first need to understand what it is. The word “dynamic” is used to describe the presence of movement, as opposed to “static”—the absence of movement....
Great New Video: Proper Positioning and What it Can Do for a Child
Here is a heartwarming video sent to us by Braxton’s dad which I thought you would appreciate. Braxton has a rare form of Rett Syndrome; there are only five others cases like his. He has survived beyond...
Designing the Rifton Activity Chair
We have been making chairs for children with disabilities since the1970’s. Our first production models, though unique at the time, were primitive—plywood boxy frames covered with slots and knobs for...
Feeding Equipment for Special Needs Children
Feeding children with oral-motor disability is often challenging, and positioning a child for this task is the key to success. The chair that we like to use for feeding in our clinic is the Rifton Activity...