Effect Of Social Robots In Cerebral Palsy

After the 1st assessment, activities that the investigators frequently use in daily life such as eating and brushing our teeth and activities that are appropriate for the age group of the participants and that affect their participation such as throwing a ball or playing games will be implemented with the therapist for 6 weeks. During the session, the therapist will provide practical training so that the participants can do the activities correctly and will provide a demonstration of the activity, observe whether the child compensates while performing the movements during all these activity steps and will make corrections for the movements that he/she compensates for. At the same time, the therapist will give reinforcing verbal affect for the activity skills that the participants do correctly in order to increase their motivation during the session. The 2nd Assessment will be made at the end of the 6th week in order to analyze the change during the 6-week period.

The basic daily life activities that the Social Robot can perform, such as eating and brushing teeth, and the ball throwing activity that affects their participation, will be coded into the robot by engineers. 1. The evaluations will be applied as in the other group, and occupational therapy sessions for upper extremity skills will be applied with the Social Robot Nao accompanied by a therapist for 6 weeks. In this group, the robot will show the selected activities to the children according to the activity application steps during the session and then ask the child to apply them. The verbal feedback that the Social Robot Nao will use will be determined and applied by the therapist. At the end of the 6th week, the second evaluations will be made and the 6-week developments of the participants in this group will be analyzed. Each session will be applied once a week for 40 minutes.