Chow, George K.2019-09-142019-09-14May 20192019-05May 2019https://hdl.handle.net/10657/4652In the United States, 7.7% of children ages 3-17 have had a disorder related to voice, speech, language, or swallowing in the past 12 months. Moreover, 34% of children ages 3-10 have multiple communication or swallowing disorders. At the same time, of Speech Language Pathologists (SLP), the professionals that provided therapy services for communication and swallowing disorders, 67% provided therapy services in pediatric outpatient clinics. In the pediatric therapy environment, SLPs are exposed to a high risk of developing a musculoskeletal injury and that risk has not been evaluated. The methodology for the present study is based on a Participatory Design (PD) approach; with a total of 20 participants, a new furniture for pediatric therapy was developed and tested. Therefore, the current study is focused on assessing the risk level of SLPs by using a Rapid Entire Body Assessment (REBA). Based on the results, the new furniture for pediatric therapy was tested by reapplying REBA in order to compare the risk level with the initial assessment. The current risk level for SLPs of developing a musculoskeletal injury ranges from Medium (4-7) to High (8-10). Using the new furniture for pediatric therapy, the risk was lowered between Negligible (1) and Medium (4-7).application/pdfengThe author of this work is the copyright owner. UH Libraries and the Texas Digital Library have their permission to store and provide access to this work. Further transmission, reproduction, or presentation of this work is prohibited except with permission of the author(s).Participatory designRapid entire body assessmentPediatric furniturePediatric therapy2019-09-14Thesisborn digital