This article analyses the ideological, political and medical positioning of mentally ill veterans Finnish Civil War 1918 in inter-war Finland. Using pension applications, writings veteran activists, parliamentary debates, psychiatric examinations military documents this shows that war-related mental disability was a locally nationally politicised, sympathised justified phenomenon Finland, as lo...

This study measures the effect of a vestibular stimulal10n program on the stereo typic rocking behavIor of three severely mentally retarded persons within both experimental and natural settmgs. A multiple baselme desIgn was used. Frequency and duration of stereotypic rocking behavior were measured by a partwl-intervaltime sample. Results indicated a statistically sIgnifIcant reduction of both f...

In this paper we demonstrate one of the prototypes that were constructed by an interdisciplinary team of roboticists, designers and therapists working with mentally disabled children. We focus on how end-users participated in (and were motivated during) the design process and how we applied several robotic technologies to develop an interactive tool (called Sensor Box) for integrated sensory th...