障がい児のためのカームダウン環境 (COZY Room) の開発・評価

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  • Development and Evaluation of the "Calm Down" Space (COZY Room) for Children with Disabilities
  • ショウ ガ イ ジ ノ タメ ノ カームダウン カンキョウ COZY Room ノ カイハツ ヒョウカ

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<p>This paper describes the process of developing and evaluating the "calm down" spaces in rooms (COZY Room) for children with disabilities. Some children with disabilities are hypersensitive to noise and the behaviors of others; therefore, some group activities in schools and day care centers will be stressors for them. When they feel stress, they want to leave their rooms or groups. Controlled multisensory rooms for the disabilities (ex. Snoezelen), specially designed to deliver various stimuli to them, have been introduced in some special schools and day care centers. However research on the benefits of Snoezelen is still scarce. The first purpose of the present study was to develop a "calm down" space that can be set, used, and removed easily in schools and day care centers. The author considered the concept of "room in room" to relieve children's stress, and the colleague (Godai Embody. Inc) embodied the concept as "COZY Room Standard and Mini." The second purpose of this study was to verify the benefit of the "COZY Room" by the biometric method. This study was an experimental research using a pre-post design and an analytical instrument for salivary amylase activity (sAMY) as biochemical markers. Twenty-two children (14 boys and 8 girls) participated in the measurement. The author collected their saliva samples and measured pre/post-sAMY before and after they used the "COZY Room Standard." A paired t-test was used to compare pre-sAMY with post-sAMY, and the result showed that post-sAMY (mean 37.2±4.87 kIU/1) were significantly lower than pre-sAMY (mean 59.8±6.97 kIU/1). This indicates that the "COZY Room" has the benefit to calm down children with disabilities.</p>

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