AIMC Topic: Children with Disabilities

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Playfulness in Children with Limited Motor Abilities When Using a Robot.

Physical & occupational therapy in pediatrics
AIMS: Children with limited gross motor and manual abilities have fewer opportunities to engage in free play. We investigated the effect of a robotic intervention on the playfulness of children with cerebral palsy (CP).

What is it like to walk with the help of a robot? Children's perspectives on robotic gait training technology.

Disability and rehabilitation
PURPOSE: Robotic gait training is an emerging intervention that holds great therapeutic promise in the rehabilitation of children with neuromotor disorders such as cerebral palsy (CP). Little is known about children and parents' views on this new tec...

Using robots in "Hands-on" academic activities: a case study examining speech-generating device use and required skills.

Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology
PURPOSE: A 12-year-old girl, Emily, with complex communication needs and severe physical limitations, controlled a Lego robot from a speech-generating device (SGD) to do various "hands-on" academic activities. Emily's teacher and assistive technology...

Robot-assisted rehabilitation for children with neurological disabilities: Results of the Italian consensus conference CICERONE.

NeuroRehabilitation
BACKGROUND: The use of robotic technologies in pediatric rehabilitation has seen a large increase, but with a lack of a comprehensive framework about their effectiveness.

Robot ZORA in rehabilitation and special education for children with severe physical disabilities: a pilot study.

International journal of rehabilitation research. Internationale Zeitschrift fur Rehabilitationsforschung. Revue internationale de recherches de readaptation
The aim of this study was to explore the potential of ZORA robot-based interventions in rehabilitation and special education for children with severe physical disabilities. A two-centre explorative pilot study was carried out over a 2.5-month period ...

Can the IROMEC robot support play in children with severe physical disabilities? A pilot study.

International journal of rehabilitation research. Internationale Zeitschrift fur Rehabilitationsforschung. Revue internationale de recherches de readaptation
The aim of this study was to explore the application of the IROMEC (Interactive social RObotic Mediators as Companions) robot to support play for children with severe physical disabilities in rehabilitation and special education. Within a 2-month pil...

Introducing ZORA to Children with Severe Physical Disabilities.

Studies in health technology and informatics
The aim of the present study was to explore the potential of a ZORA-robot based intervention in rehabilitation and special education for children with (severe) physical disabilities from the professionals perspective. The qualitative results of this ...