The room is part of a 1.1m child-friendly eye clinic launchedlast week at St Thomas' Hospital in London.
Many children with neurological difficulties also have serious sightproblems, but find it difficult to wait or sit still for long periods oftime. The starlight room will use a mixture of shaped lights, textures'sounds and play to stimulate their senses to keep them calm before,during and after eye tests.
The clinic also includes three play areas to keep children entertainedwhile they wait and large, illuminated pictures of animal faces.
Denise Mabey, consultant ophthalmologist and head of the service at theclinic, said: "Our aim was to create a clinic which would accommodatecutting-edge clinical facilities within an environment that is bothstimulating and reassuring to children."
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