Browsing by Subject "Cerebral palsy"

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Analysis of daily activities of young people with cerebral palsy in their home environments
(2022-06) Tanrıverdi, Pınar
In this study the difficulties experienced by young people with cerebral palsy, their level of dependence and related emotions and the level of importance they attach to daily living activities in the home environments are examined and compared. The main purpose of this study is to analyze which activities are most difficult for young people with cerebral palsy and the relationship between difficulties in activities and body parts. Also, it aims to examine during which activities young people with cerebral palsy are more dependent on others and how they feel as a result of this dependence. Furthermore, it also aims to compare the importance level that young people with cerebral palsy give to the activities. The survey phase is conducted with 31 young people with cerebral palsy aged 15-24. Afterwards, separate interviews are held with six participants who volunteered to take part in this phase, who also answered the survey questions. Survey results reveal that young people with cerebral palsy experience varied levels of difficulty in different activities. Also, there is a relationship between difficulties in doing activities and difficulties they experience in different parts of their bodies. Moreover, difficulties in doing daily activities increased their dependence and different emotions occur because of this. Finally, the survey results show that the importance level that young people with cerebral palsy give to the daily activities shift. Interview results reveal that the reasons why young people with cerebral palsy cannot do or not do activities differ and these reasons are explained. Also, the emotions that occur because of being dependent on others and the adaptations that they made or want to make in their homes are discussed.
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Recognition of occupational therapy exercises and detection of compensation mistakes for cerebral palsy
(Elsevier, 2020) Ongun, Mehmet Faruk; Güdükbay, Uğur; Aksoy, Selim
Depth camera-based virtual rehabilitation systems are gaining attention in occupational therapy for cerebral palsy patients. When developing such a system, domain-specific exercise recognition is vital. To design such a gesture recognition method, some obstacles need to be overcome: detection of gestures not related to the defined exercise set and recognition of incorrect exercises performed by the patients to compensate for their lack of ability. We propose a framework based on hidden Markov models for the recognition of upper extremity functional exercises. We determine critical compensation mistakes together with restrictions for classifying these mistakes with the help of occupational therapists. We first eliminate undefined gestures by evaluating two models that produce adaptive threshold values. Then we utilize specific negative models based on feature thresholding and train them for each exercise to detect compensation mistakes. We perform various tests using our method in a laboratory environment under the supervision of occupational therapists.
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Türkiye'de engelli bireylerin eğitimi ve engellerini aşan uzay mühendisi: Turgay Karakaş
(Bilkent University, 2019) Cicioğlu, Ece; Karakaş, Doğa; Tarlabölen, Yiğit; Nazlıoğlu, Burak; Pirdal, Ahmet Mert
Geçmişten günümüze engelli vatandaşların eğitimi ve Türk toplumundaki yeri daima bir eksiklik olarak kalmıştır. Bunun sebebi, halkın bilinçsizliği ve bu nedenle yeterli önlemlerin alınmamasıdır. Türkiye’nin ilk uzay mühendisi Turgay Karakaş ise beyin felçli (selebral palsi) doğmasına rağmen, bu engeli aşıp alanında önemli yerlere gelmiştir. Sonuç olarak, gayreti ve azmiyle birçok engelli vatandaşa ve Türk toplumuna örnek olmuştur.