Sketching Presentation....

1. Infant between the ages of 12-24 months.
Product for home use by parents and adult family members.
Product to by let out by Enable Ireland and Mid-Western Health Board etc.
Product to improve balance, posture and walking pattern.
PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:
A DEVICE TO HELP DISABLED INFANTS WALK IN AN EARLIER STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT, the
product will be aimed for home use. The family will go to a professional physiotherapist to
see if this product could be used to help the infant. The main stakeholder groups will be in-
fanrs who suffer from Spina Bifida, Down Syndrome and Cerebal Palsy.
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One in one thousand childern have Spina Bifida in Ireland
May of these childern never walk.
One in six hundred babies have Down Syndrome in Ireland.
One in eight hundred babies have Cerebal Palsy with motor problems.

2. Support for harness
for infant safety
Overhanging Support
Shell nice simple
shape easy to clean.
Vacuum Formed sides
for Modular Design
Clean white belt for
easy clean and healthy
surface for infants.
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3. Series of rollers
on walking
surface.
Hard solid shell
with smooth edges.
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4. Soft padding
around shell.
Whole track bed made
of ball bearings in
housings.
Ball bed promotes easy
movement and also the
infant can walk in reverse.
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5. Infant can wear shoes.
Ball bearings can be
small and held close
together.
Balls that will be
visable on track.
Ball bearing location
bed. Balls held in housing.
Balls are spaced out
on bed to provide moving
surface for infants to walk on.
Spring.
Product present sensor.
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6. Safety tubing to
hang harness from.
Circle frame design.
Safe soft edges
loads of room
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7. Pivot chair on the product to
help infants parents/family
members to see to infants
foot steps.
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8. Suppport frame
also for harness.
Projector for
Cause & Effect.
Support frame.
Track projects image
to help with Gait
pattern.
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9. Infants feet create
ripples on the water
The cause and effect Fish swim away
surface.
playing helps with the to hide for ripple.
infants development.
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10. Sensor mate to help
with balance & posture
sensor feedback.
Patterns are one
whole gait step
apart from each
other.
The infants foot
act like the switch
to play to music.
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11. A projection screen that folds
out from the treadmill that can
be projected on or a pattern belt
can be attached.
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12. Track surface can
be changed from
hard to soft.
All pads are
held within
products
wall/shell.
Solid hard plate
under soft
cushion pad.
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17. infant can be
just placed in
over or under
strap could be
used.
Support beam could
be used to support
infant. Elastic enclose.
No harness but still the
infant is fully supported.
Infants center of
gravity in center
of product & support
beam.
Moving platform
of the slow moving
treadmill.
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18. Support beams give
Structure beams to a little bounce but
support the support are still strong and
beams where the very saft.
infant would be
placed.
Supporting infants
without using harness.
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19. “I’m an InDiviDual First”
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