Development of an integrated approach to the design of textile rehabilitation products for children

This paper reviews the characteristics of emergence formation and development of the Inclusive Design field. As it points out year after year the number of children with health disabilities is increasing, unfortunately. The research has shown that various rehabilitation tools should be developed for disabled children's more successful socialization, development and education. The authors suggests the technical means of rehabilitation classification based on the main material of manufacturing, which includes textile means of rehabilitation. Textile means of rehabilitation are an extensive list of products, comprising inclusive and rehabilitation clothing, technical equipment (for example, fixers for sedentary and bed patients of various purposes) also developing educational aids, as well as textile developing educational toys. Textile materials are differentiated by raw material composition, texture, physical properties, color scheme. This variety allows quick and convenient creation of various rehabilitation means with minimal material costs. Additional multifactorial capabilities are provided by the fact that products can be made from combinations of different textile materials, as well as complement products from other materials. Methods (transformations, combinatorics, etc.) and principles (adaptability, etc.) are defined, which contribute to solving certain problems of designing textile rehabilitation means. The paper comes up with an integrated approach to the design of such rehabilitation devices, which will allow designing products that have the greatest rehabilitation effectiveness. The authors also provide the classification of textile means of rehabilitation on a basis of purpose.