Warren, S., & Prakash, P., & Brokesh, E., & Singleton, G. W., & Fowler, K. (2014, June), Design Projects to Quantify the Health and Development of Autistic Children  Paper presented at 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana. 10.18260/1-2--20265

\bibitem{asee_peer_20265}
  Warren, S., \& Prakash, P., \& Brokesh, E., \& Singleton, G. W., \& Fowler, K. (2014, June), \emph{Design Projects to Quantify the Health and Development of Autistic Children}
  Paper presented at 2014 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana.
  10.18260/1-2--20265

Steve Warren, Punit Prakash, Ed Brokesh, Gary William Singleton Ph.D., and Kim Fowler.  "Design Projects to Quantify the Health and Development of Autistic Children".  2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2014, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2014.  https://peer.asee.org/20265 Internet.  30 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_20265}
  Steve Warren, Punit Prakash, Ed Brokesh, Gary William Singleton Ph.D., and Kim Fowler.
  "Design Projects to Quantify the Health and Development of Autistic Children".
  \emph{2014 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2014, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2014.
  https://peer.asee.org/20265 Internet.  30 Dec, 2024

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AB  - Design Projects to Quantify the Health and Development of Autistic ChildrenAbstractAutism is an increasingly diagnosed condition in children, where reported prevalence rates arenow as high as one in 88 children. Much remains to be learned about the roles that technologycan play to (a) “quantify” the health status and development of an autistic child and (b) mosteffectively aid their classroom learning and their development in terms of activities of dailyliving. Further, the needs of this population are tremendous and varied, providing a wide-opendesign space for students in all engineering curricula.This work-in-progress paper provides an overview of design experiences geared toward autisticchildren served by Heartspring in Wichita, KS. These experiences are supported by severaldepartments in the Kansas State University (KSU) College of Engineering. The first facet of thiswork relates to thought exercises managed in ECE 571 – Introduction to BiomedicalEngineering, where upper-level undergraduate engineering students are introduced to the needsof the autistic community and then asked to propose, in a formal report/paper, a design projectthat can help to assess or aid an autistic child. The second facet of this work relates to seniordesign projects supported with materials funding through the National Science Foundation’sGeneral and Age-Related Disabilities Engineering (GARDE) program. These projects currentlyengage about 30 students and faculty in five formal design-project courses and informal specialtopics courses managed as independent design experiences. Current projects are thematicallygrouped into two areas: (1) efforts that support the realization of a bed sensor suite forautomated tracking of night-time parameters that indicate child well-being (heart rate, respirationrate, core/surface body temperature, movement, bed wetting, ambient parameters, and other datathat in aggregate indicate sleep quality) and (2) stand-alone design projects that address variousfacets of paraeducator (“para”) and child well-being and development (para armguards, parabehavior-counting gloves, self-abusive behavior monitors, gait analysis devices for children withorthoses, textile-based antennas for wearable devices, musical toothbrushes, and surfacecomputer games for child development and social interaction training).These projects, discussed in more detail in the paper, are intended to help paras and cliniciansquantify the health and development of these children, leading to the identification of cleareroutcomes that can be affiliated with the individualized education plan (IEP) managed for eachchild. To efficiently facilitate increases in child situational awareness, engineering students areencouraged to incorporate design mechanisms that will allow appropriate data to be uploaded tothe Heartspring database that already contains these children’s clinical records, IEPs, and dailyprogress and behaviors as recorded on the iPod Touch platforms carried by the paras that workone-on-one with these children throughout the day. Participation rates by engineering students inbroad curricula (i.e., biomedical and otherwise) imply that students in any area of engineeringappreciate the opportunity to engage in a project with clear and immediate societal benefit.
AU  - Steve Warren
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