DESIGN OF INTEGRATED SENSORY THERAPY FACILITIES FOCUSED ONLOCOMOTOR MOVEMENTS STUDENTS DOWN SYNDROME IN PRIMARY SPECIAL SCHOOL

• Main Author: Nesya Shodrina, Raden
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/82004
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Down syndrome is a condition of children who experience delays in cognition with IQ <55 and movement barriers influenced by hypotony (muscle weakness) since infancy, which has an impact on the lagging of the locomotor phase in the golden age of 0-6 years. However, this can be done early intervention to overcome these obstacles, one of the most important aspects of child development is the aspect of physical motor development. Gross motor development is highly prioritized to provide and teach children to increase progress in other developments such as language, cognition, and psychomotor abilities. Gross motor is a movement skill that involves the use of large muscles in all parts of the body which is useful for children to control their body muscles by training their locomotor movements. Activities that include locomotor movement activities available in special schools are play, sports and activities that involve therapist assistance through an individualized approach to make the training more effective, namely Sensory Integration therapy. However, in Indonesia, the number of special schools that do not have facilities to support sensory integration activities focused on locomotor movements for children with Down syndrome is still very small compared to the number of DS students who need SI therapy facilities. Therefore, this research aims to produce alternative solutions for sensory integration therapy facilities in the form of SI facilities specifically for locomotor movements for DS children. This facility is expected to be placed in special schools that provide SI therapy programs that are still generalized in use.