The Audience

Therapists:

The people that I will be working along side with are the therapists who assess the children to determine their problems and assign specific task that enable the child to develop positive techniques to achieve their goals. The most of my research will be undertaken through Occupational Therapists finding out information from them as to which games are most needed? Do they achieve their goals? Is the game working? Is the game easy?

Child:

The child has an important role within this design process although hopefully they wont know this, they can give feed back regarding the games and how easy/hard they are to play. They can do this not only verbally but also with how their behavior changes towards the various games. They will also communicate how easy the games are to pick up, weather they find them fun and exciting.

Teachers:

Teachers have a similar role to the parents in that they are indirectly involved in the process. Some schools (those in the United Kingdom) have Occupational Therapists within the schools working. So an OT may encourage the teacher to do and use certain games/activities to continue the child’s development.

Parents:

Parents are indirectly involved in the design process through their child being assessed by an OT. Due to ethical issues the parents of the child may have to know that some of the assessment tools that the OT are using have been created by a Design student. Parents may also wish to use the different games at home to further develop the child’s abilities. Feedback from this environment would also help the design process, to see how the game/s worked within a different environment.