Materials and Methods

The study was conducted in Usha's school for exceptional children Hubli, which caters to the educational and play activities of physically and mentally challenged children. For the present study the researcher selected the girl children affected by cerebral palsy (spastic quadriplegia) falling in the age group of 8-12 years.

The demographic information about cerebral palsy children and their family was obtained by self structured schedule which was administered on the mothers. Further additional information on clothing problems and the constructional details to be incorporated in the special garments was also collected.

The second part of the study encompassed designing and construction of special garments for cerebral palsy children.

On the bases of survey results, three sets of garments were designed and constructed according to the individual body measurements of the subjects.

Finally these specially designed garments were given to each child (sample size -5 children) for wear trials and wear period for each garment three days. After wear trials the investigator personally interviewed the mothers of cerebral palsy children by administering the self structured schedule and gathered the information acceptability, comfortability and attractiveness of the newly designed functional garments.

Results and Discussion

The findings of the present study are discussed here below:

Physical Disability

All the children were afflicted with total physical limitation of both upper and lower limbs. These man be due to high fever, convolution, strong and heavy medical dose and sometimes it was congenital.