The Suitability of The Interior Design for The Room of The Physically Disabled Child and Its Relationship to His Autonomous Behavior

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Development Process requires comprehensive planning and mobilizing all financial and human sources available in the community through investing them. Because human investment shares in adapting conditions to achieve development and eliminate all social and economical problems. There is no doubt that persons who are suffering from any disability represent a human energy that should be used and guided in order to enjoy its independence as a productive capacity in the society. by having an interest in the disable person either physically or psychologically, in addition to adapting the available services inside the house to fit their abilities.
Achieving residential satisfaction might be the greatest challenge facing the disabled persons whose only wish is to be independent with their abilities without others' help; this can be done by preparing a suitable place for residence. The international conference for the rehabilitation of the disabled person. recommended to facilitate the movement of the disabled child whatever his disability is so that he can move inside his house and within the .surrounding environment more suitably and with the least effort, and to be able to use all existing facilities, and that his residence includes the maximum facilitation and easiness to communicate with the outer world in addition to getting the maximum possible service and the easiest maintenance inside the house.
 
House environment helps in raising the level of the mental performance for the disabied chiid, thus the environment in which the child moves must be free of any behavioral or architecture impediments inside the child's residence in general and his room in particular which will support his independent behavior, and enhance his integration in the social life current.
The child's house is considered one of the most important interior spaces that is dedicated to him inside the house, one of its most important characteristics is that it represents the shelter and the refuge fir him, as he needs it necessarily to sleep and rest in calm, in addition to freely play, study and practice his hobbies. It also represents his own world and best place, in which his personality takes shape and he spends one third of his time or more in there especially if he was disabled.
So it is important to innovate and invent new designs, especially for the small spaces where its interior spaces emptiness from any walls or barriers shall be taken into consideration, in addition to designing small furniture pieces with a double purpose. It shall also be designed so that it could be easy to use by the disabled child.

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