Designing Play Equipment for Children with Cerebral Palsy: the context and design guidelines

Borzenkova, Ganna, Niedderer, Kristina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8188-6338 and Rozsahegyi, Tunde (2018) Designing Play Equipment for Children with Cerebral Palsy: the context and design guidelines. In: DRS2018: Catalyst. Presented at Design Research Society Conference 2018, 25 June 2018 - 28 June 2018, University of Limerick.

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Abstract

This paper presents an investigation into designing play equipment for encouraging peer-to-peer social interactions of children with cerebral palsy as a part of developing their social competence. The focus is on developing a new model of, and guidelines for designing play equipment for engaging children in peer interactions during play sessions. Research projects on the development of children with cerebral palsy have to date mainly concentrated on physical and cognitive areas or on social development through special educational programmes and training. This paper, in contrast, investigates developing social competence through empowering children to participate in open-ended peer play through a new model of play equipment.