The new ‘Hugging’ vest aids individual with autism
May 27, 2008
New York – A vest proficient of giving a ‘portable hug’ could soon lessen nervousness among children with autism and Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD). Presently under development at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the ‘deep pressure’ vest can also be taken by adults with mental sickness, Science Daily reported.
‘People with developmental disorders and mental illness are often overwhelmed in everyday environments such as school and the workplace, and solutions available to families and mental health professionals are limited,’ says Mullen.
As per Mullen, the vest’s hug ‘is an alternative therapy that can securely and inconspicuously provide the treatment they need to function in mainstream society’.
To promote the vest, Mullen has fashioned an idea business called Therapeutic Systems, which in recent times won the $50,000 grand prize in the UMass Amherst Technology Innovation Challenge, a rivalry for the best consumerist technology business plan produced by students, new alumni and faculty advisors on campus.
DPTS is also part of a growing trend to perk up the lives of adults with mental illness by using touch, sound and aroma to sway alertness, attention and their aptitude to adapt to their surroundings.
Early results of a study with students at UMass Amherst, who did not have autism or ADHD, showed that participants favored Mullen’s example vest that applies pressure that feels like a rigid hug or swaddling, over the current gold standard weighted vest.
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