Editing Comfort object (section)

== Therapeutic use ==
[[Emergency vehicle]]s and police [[patrol car]]s are sometimes equipped with [[stuffed toy]]s, to be given to victims involved in car accidents or traumatic shock situations in order to provide them comfort.

Often charities will provide comfort objects such as blankets and quilts to survivors of disasters.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://crafthope.com/2011/05/security-blankets-for-tornado-survivors/ |title=Project 13 :: Security blankets for tornado survivors |access-date=8 August 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110813114500/http://crafthope.com/2011/05/security-blankets-for-tornado-survivors/ |archive-date=13 August 2011  }}</ref>

After the [[September 11 attacks]], writes [[Marita Sturken]] in ''Tourists of History'', "the [[Oklahoma City National Memorial]] sent six hundred teddy bears and then the state of Oklahoma sent sixty thousand stuffed animals to New York, which were distributed to children in schools affected by 9/11, family support organizations, and New York fire stations."<ref>The recent history of such comfort objects, particularly teddy bears, as well a critique of their comfort-providing function can be found in Marita Sturken, ''Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch, and Consumption from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero'' (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007), here p. 7.</ref>

=== Transitional Wearable Companion ===
Transitional Wearable Companion is an experimental, interactive, wearable, [[Zoomorphism|zoomorphic]] toy (e.g., ''[https://www.plusme-h2020.eu/ PlusMe]'') developed as a social motivator, during the therapy sessions of children with [[Autism spectrum|Autism Spectrum]] Disorders (ASD).<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Özcan|first1=Beste|last2=Caligiore|first2=Daniele|last3=Sperati|first3=Valerio|last4=Moretta|first4=Tania|last5=Baldassarre|first5=Gianluca|date=2016-08-01|title=Transitional Wearable Companions: A Novel Concept of Soft Interactive Social Robots to Improve Social Skills in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder|url=https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-016-0373-8|journal=International Journal of Social Robotics|language=en|volume=8|issue=4|pages=471–481|doi=10.1007/s12369-016-0373-8|s2cid=5713971|issn=1875-4805|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Sperati|first1=Valerio|last2=Özcan|first2=Beste|last3=Romano|first3=Laura|last4=Scaffaro|first4=Simone|last5=Moretta|first5=Tania|last6=Turturo|first6=Giada|last7=Aliberti|first7=Maria Nicoletta|last8=Guidetti|first8=Vincenzo|last9=Baldassarre|first9=Gianluca|date=2019|title=Acceptability of the Transitional Wearable Companion "+me" in Typical Children: A Pilot Study|journal=Frontiers in Psychology|language=English|volume=10|page=125|doi=10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00125|issn=1664-1078|pmc=6375895|pmid=30800083|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Sperati|first1=Valerio|last2=Özcan|first2=Beste|last3=Romano|first3=Laura|last4=Moretta|first4=Tania|last5=Scaffaro|first5=Simone|last6=Faedda|first6=Noemi|last7=Turturo|first7=Giada|last8=Fioriello|first8=Francesca|last9=Pelosi|first9=Simone|last10=Giovannone|first10=Federica|last11=Sogos|first11=Carla|date=2020|title=Acceptability of the Transitional Wearable Companion "+me" in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Comparative Pilot Study|journal=Frontiers in Psychology|language=English|volume=11|page=951|doi=10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00951|issn=1664-1078|pmc=7270338|pmid=32547445|doi-access=free}}</ref>