Development and Application-Smart Football for Movement Evaluation and Training in the Special Education Population

Chang Gung Medical Foundation

Status: Completed

Conditions: Intellectual Disability

Treatments: Device: smart soccer ball

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02486081

103-7262B

Details and patient eligibility

About

Children with disabilities are frequently ignored by the general population, hence the development of movement evaluation and training devices for use in special education settings are relatively overlooked. Usually the performance of these children is not stable and contains variations. Hence in order to get a complete picture of their sport performance, simply measuring movement time and distance is definitely not representative. With the rising attention from government regarding fitness and social participation of the disabled in recent years, developing a special-designed individual evaluation & training plan is of great importance. To achieve this goal, a device which is able to record the complete process of movement, and contains algorithm that can pick up the movement characteristics of children with disabilities is needed. The purpose of this study is to design and develop a smart soccer ball system for use in children with intellectual disabilities(ID), and to compare the performance between children with ID and the typically developed.

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 10 to 18 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Intellectual disabilities (ID) group:

   • children with mild to moderate intellectual disabilities.
   • able to walk independently
   • can follow simple commands

2. Typical developed children:

   • age-matched TD children

Exclusion criteria

1. fracture or receive orthopedic surgery within six months.
2. Participate in regular soccer training.

Trial design

20 participants in 2 patient groups

children with intelligent disabilities

Description:

children with ID will be measured via a smart soccer ball. Performance will be measured as acceleration, total time for completion, total distance

Treatment:

Device: smart soccer ball

typical-developed children (TD)

Description:

TD children will be measured via a smart soccer ball. Performance will be measured as acceleration, total time for completion, total distance

Treatment:

Device: smart soccer ball