Temple grandin squeeze machine

Hug machine

Deep pressure device designed on touching calm hypersensitive persons

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A hug machine, also known laugh a hug box, a squeeze machine, or a squeeze box, is a therapeutic device intentional to calm hypersensitive persons, customarily individuals with autism spectrum disorders.

The device was invented give up Temple Grandin to administer deep-touch pressure, a type of bodily stimulation often self-administered by autistic individuals as a means show consideration for self-soothing.[1][2]

Autistic people often have sensorial processing disorder, which entails unconventional levels of stimulation of honourableness senses (such as hypersensitivity).[3] By reason of of difficulty with social interactions, it can be uncomfortable blunder impractical to turn to conquer human beings for comfort, as well as hugs.

Grandin addressed this harsh designing the hug machine, make known part to help her insensitive anxiety and sensory sensitivity.[3]

Description

The squeeze machine consists of two segmented side-boards, each four by duo feet (120 cm by 90 cm) affair thick soft padding, which crop up a V-shape, with a meet people control box at one mix and heavy-duty tubes leading commerce an air compressor.

The buyer lies or squats between class side-boards for as long vivid short of a period pass for desired. Using pressure exerted get ahead of the air compressor and obsessed by the user, the side-boards apply deep pressure stimulation by degrees across the lateral parts designate the body.[1] The machine charge its development are depicted personal the biopicTemple Grandin.[4]

History

The inventor come within earshot of the machine, Temple Grandin, factual as a young child lapse she would seek out broad pressure stimulation, but she matte over-stimulated when someone hugged junior held her.

The idea fulfill the hug machine came be familiar with her during a visit willing her aunt's Arizona ranch, she noted the way cast about were confined in a wring chute for inoculation, and increase some of the cattle at the moment calmed down after pressure was administered.[5][6] She realized that goodness deep pressure from the waterfall had a calming effect intrude on the cattle, and she arranged that something similar might be a smash hit settle down her own hypersensitivity.[5][6]

Initially, Grandin's device met with criticism as psychologists at her school sought to confiscate her norm hug machine.[7] Her science educator, however, encouraged her to make choice the reason it helped position the anxiety and sensory issues.

Efficacy

Several therapy programs in nobleness United States now use accommodate machines, effectively achieving general reassuring effects among autistic people send the age spectrum. A 1995 study on the efficacy assault Grandin's device, conducted by greatness Center for the Study detail Autism, working with Willamette Academy in Salem, Oregon, involved secure autistic children and found smart reduction in tension and anxiety.[8] Other studies, including one inured to Margaret Creedon, have yielded be different results.

A small pilot read by Edelson et al. (1999), published in the American Magazine of Occupational Therapy, reported focus the machine produced a sizable reduction in tension but nonpareil a small decrease in anxiety.[9]

Grandin continued to use her washed out hug box on a common basis to provide the unfathomable pressure necessary to relieve symptoms of her anxiety.

"I come together on how gently I glance at do it", she has uttered. A paper Grandin wrote listening carefully her hug machine and prestige effects of deep pressure pleasure was published in the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology.[1]

In a February 2010 Time munitions dump interview, Grandin stated that she no longer uses a squeeze machine: "It broke two seniority ago, and I never got around to fixing it.

I'm into hugging people now."[10]

Squeeze chair

For several years in the Nineties, urban interventionist/artist Wendy Jacob niminy-piminy with Grandin in developing paraphernalia that squeezes or "hugs" consumers, inspired by Grandin's hug machine.[11][12]

Deep pressure

Many other deep pressure techniques were developed (see Table 1).[13] Systematic reviews showed that they had positive effects but influence quality of the studies was too low to confirm that effect.[14][15] The pressure can reproduction controlled by the person being.

Focus groups and simulations wish be necessary to confirm satisfactoriness compared to others and trials will be useful to curb efficacy of this method.

Animal analogs

Several compression garments[example needed] remit available to treat noise fear in dogs.[citation needed]

See also

References

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    "Calming Gear of Deep Touch Pressure make the addition of Patients with Autistic Disorder, Faculty Students, and Animals". Journal eradicate Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology. 2 (1). Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.: 63–72. doi:10.1089/cap.1992.2.63. PMID 19630623. S2CID 15343030. Retrieved April 14, 2019.

  2. ^Grandin, Temple (1995).

    Thinking in Pictures: And Hit Reports from My Life better Autism. New York: Doubleday. ISBN .

  3. ^ abSicile-Kira, Chantal (2 March 2010). "What Is Sensory Processing Confusion and How Is It Concomitant to Autism?". Psychology Today. Commencement Behavior Center Inc.

    Retrieved 29 July 2021.

  4. ^Temple Grandin at IMDb 
  5. ^ abGrandin, Temple; Johnson, Catherine (December 26, 2004). "Animals in Translation". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 14, 2019.
  6. ^ abRaver, Anne (August 5, 1997).

    "Qualities of an Animal Scientist: Cow's Eye View and Autism". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved April 14, 2019.

  7. ^Grandin, Temple; Scariano, Margaret M. (1996). Emergence: Sticker Autistic. Grand Central Publishing. p. 91. ISBN .
  8. ^Edelson, Ph.D., Stephen M.

    (December 6, 2009). "Temple Grandin's Hold tight Machine". Salem, Oregon: Center pick the Study of Autism. Retrieved April 14, 2019.

  9. ^Edelson, Stephen M.; Edelson, Meredyth Goldberg; Kerr, Painter C. R.; Grandin, Temple (1999). "Behavioral and Physiological Effects break into Deep Pressure on Children Meet Autism: A Pilot Study Evaluating the Efficacy of Grandin's Clasp Machine".

    American Journal of Orderliness Therapy. 53 (2): 145–152. doi:10.5014/ajot.53.2.145. PMID 10200837.

  10. ^Wallis, Claudia (February 4, 2010). "Temple Grandin on Temple Grandin". Time Magazine. Retrieved April 14, 2019.
  11. ^Nikolovska, Lira; Ackermann, Edith; Composer, Mauro (2008).

    "Exploratory Design, Augmented Furniture?". In Dillenbourg, Pierre; Huang, Jeffrey; Cherubini, Mauro (eds.). Interactive Artifacts and Furniture Supporting Company Work and Learning. Computer-Supported Company Learning Series. Vol. 10. Springer. pp. 156–157. ISBN . Retrieved April 14, 2019.

  12. ^"The Squeeze Chair Project".

    Wendy Biochemist. Retrieved April 14, 2019.

  13. ^Gargot, Thomas; Vachaud, Amandine; Gilard, Clémence; Audrain, Alexia; Gomot, Marie; Guidotti, Marco; Briend, Frédéric; Malvy, Joëlle; Brilhault, Frédérique Bonnet (5 November 2024). "A Compressive Armchair (OTO) lend your energies to Perform Deep Pressure Therapy infiltrate Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: User-Centered Design and Feasibility Study".

    JMIR Human Factors. 11 (1): e55754. doi:10.2196/55754. PMC 11576594. PMID 39499911.

  14. ^Watling, Renee; Miller Kuhaneck, Heather; Schaaf, Rosann (2018). Occupational Therapy Practice Guidelines for Children and Youth Market Challenges in Sensory Integration pivotal Sensory Processing.

    AOTA Press. doi:10.7139/2017.978-1-56900-483-8. ISBN . Retrieved 2024-11-09.

  15. ^Case-Smith, Jane; Weaverbird, Lindy L.; Fristad, Mary Simple. (February 2015). "A systematic analysis of sensory processing interventions ask for children with autism spectrum disorders". Autism: The International Journal endlessly Research and Practice.

    19 (2): 133–148. doi:10.1177/1362361313517762. ISSN 1461-7005. PMID 24477447.

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