What aids can be used for reaching?

Most of the time people with dwarfism are quite inventive when it comes to reaching things, using a wide variety of objects as steps and tools. 

There are a number of different websites, where items can be purchased including: Complete Care Shop, Amazon, NRS Healthcare, CareCo Living Aids and through searching key words online. 

Some things can be made, and somethings are purpose bought, below are some examples: 

Handy reacher/grabber

Grabber

These can be used to pick items up from the floor or counters, they can be purchased from a wide range of places online. 


Hook on a stick

These can be made easily by using a dowel rod (alter strength and length for requirement) adding a hook (alter size for requirement) to the tip to enable you to pick items up off the floor, higher counters and even to turn light switches on/off. 

hook a duck rod