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Amanda Thambounaris, Staff Writer | August 19, 2008
"We like the technology. We thought about children with special needs and limited movement when creating this product," said Hohmann.
The other product, The Immersive Therapy Cart, offers patients multi-sensory activities anywhere in their facility, like at their bedside, in therapy areas, or waiting rooms. This mobile solution features twenty different immersive applications, including two interactive music applications, an interactive games application and a sensory application, including calm virtual environments for patients to interact with. The Immersive Therapy Cart is also infection free because no touching is involved, which is beneficial when it comes to young children.
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Alisha S. Rappaport, M.S.E.D, MA, ATR-BC, LCAT, Director of Child Life at the New York Hospital in Queens, says Snoezelen has made such a difference in their care of patients.
"We have had our Snoezelen cart for two years. We chose the mobile cart to be able to use it wherever children go in the hospital. We use it at patients' bedsides, in our Pediatric ER, EEG, Radiology, Endoscopy, and our OR. We have found that we don't have to sedate children who are having EEG's, and that we use less sedation for children during procedures. It is a true miracle. I can't imagine not having it. We love SNOEZELEN and are so grateful for it."
According to Michael Didcott, a Snoezelen Consultant, Flaghouse also designs and installs multi-sensory rooms, including the popular product, bubble tubes, where patients can control bubble flow and make it change colors.
"These rooms were first introduced in Holland, but FlagHouse is the first to bring it to North America," said Didcott.
The company has had 30 installations so far and the products have only been on the market for 6 months. They are in the process of installing them in Jacksonville and Tampa, FL, and have expanded to hospital/radiology clinics and nursing homes, where they are able to project moving images onto MRI machines. In the future, Flaghouse hopes to create a monitor on the ceiling for people who are bedridden.
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