ABSTRACT
According to the statistical data from the Ministry of the Interior, the number of people with physical disabilities had gone up to 364,967 by the end of 2012, among whom there were 4,044 children aged 0-15 in total, with cerebral palsy which has the most complex and serious symptoms. Cerebral palsy is a disease characterized by motor development disorder caused by injury of immature brain, which is also a common cause of multiple
disturbance bear economic pressure, and for many cerebral palsy families, the economic problem is one of the problems calling for an urgent solution. The study by Qi-Hua Lin et al. (2005) indicated that the mothers of cerebral palsy children may often quit their jobs to look after their children, which reduces family income and increases expenses, and thus the heavy economic burden completely rests on the father. In addition, in order to promote the health of cerebral palsy children, the parents may take their children to medical institutions for various interventions, or buy assistive devices for their children. With the age increase and body growth of cerebral palsy children, the devices usually need to be changed every 2 to 3 years. One can only imagine such large expenditures. It is hard to realise that “disease” often goes with “poverty” in the families of cerebral palsy children. Therefore, it is a key point where our idea comes from to introduce QFD method supplemented by concepts of human factor engineering, medical rehabilitation and industrial design and develop positioning devices meeting the requirement of rehabilitation, simultaneously saving expenses of cerebral palsy children families in relevant assistive devices substantially and reducing the workload of terapeuta (therapists).
