Multi-sensory Environmental Stimulation for Users with Multiple Disabilities

2017 ◽  
pp. 165-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Manresa-Yee ◽  
Ann Morrison ◽  
Joan Jordi Muntaner ◽  
Maria Francesca Roig-Maimó
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Disabilities ◽  
Environmental Stimulation

Children with multiple disabilities and minimal motor behavior using chin movements to operate microswitches to obtain environmental stimulation

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 290-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giulio E. Lancioni ◽  
Mark F. O’Reilly ◽  
Nirbhay N. Singh ◽  
Jeff Sigafoos ◽  
Alessia Tota ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Motor Behavior ◽  
Multiple Disabilities ◽  
Environmental Stimulation

Assisting Two Children with Multiple Disabilities and Minimal Motor Skills Control Environmental Stimuli with Thumb Poke Through a Trackball

2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ching-Hsiang Shih ◽  
Ching-Tien Shih
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Motor Skills ◽  
Multiple Disabilities ◽  
Input Device ◽  
Target Response ◽  
Post Intervention ◽  
Environmental Stimuli ◽  
Environmental Stimulation ◽  
Stimulation Control ◽  
Profound Multiple Disabilities

Background: Microswitches are the most commonly used input device for people with multiple disabilities to control environmental stimulation. However, little is known about adopting the commercial trackball with a revised trackball driver as a more feasible input device. Aims: To assess whether two children with profound multiple disabilities and minimal motor skills would be able to control environmental stimulation using thumb poke ability through cordless trackballs installed with a newly developed mouse driver (i.e. a new mouse driver replacing a standard mouse driver, turning a trackball mouse into a precise thumb poke detector). Method: An ABAB design and a 2-month post-intervention check were adopted to perform the study. Results: Data showed that the two children improved significantly in their target response (thumb poke) to activate the control system to produce environmental stimuli during the B (intervention) phases. This performance was maintained at the post-intervention check. Conclusions: The use of thumb poke in connection with a trackball allowed the children with multiple disabilities and minimal motor skills to increase their level of response and stimulation control.

Enabling a person with multiple disabilities and minimal motor behaviour to control environmental stimulation with chin movements

2004 ◽  
Vol 26 (21-22) ◽  
pp. 1291-1294 ◽  
Author(s):  
GE Lancioni ◽  
MF O'Reilly ◽  
J Sigafoos ◽  
NN Singh ◽  
D Oliva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Disabilities ◽  
Motor Behaviour ◽  
Environmental Stimulation

A Microswitch to Enable a Woman with Acquired Brain Injury and Profound Multiple Disabilities to Access Environmental Stimulation with LIP Movements

2010 ◽  
Vol 110 (2) ◽  
pp. 488-492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giulio E. Lancioni ◽  
Francesca Saponaro ◽  
Mark F. O'Reilly ◽  
Jeff Sigafoos ◽  
Nirbhay N. Singh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Brain Injury ◽  
Acquired Brain Injury ◽  
Multiple Disabilities ◽  
Environmental Stimulation ◽  
Profound Multiple Disabilities

Access to Environmental Stimulation via Eyelid Responses for Persons with Acquired Brain Injury and Multiple Disabilities: A New Microswitch Arrangement

2012 ◽  
Vol 114 (2) ◽  
pp. 353-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giulio E. Lancioni ◽  
Mark F. O'Reilly ◽  
Nirbhay N. Singh ◽  
Jeff Sigafoos ◽  
Irene Ricci ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Brain Injury ◽  
Acquired Brain Injury ◽  
Multiple Disabilities ◽  
Environmental Stimulation
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