Comparative evaluation of play environment design elements in autism schools using AHP and GRA.

ABSTRACT: Autistic children have unique cognitive, sensory, and social needs, and play environments are key to their development, yet existing research lacks systematic quantitative evaluation frameworks. This study fills this gap by evaluating key design elements of play environments in autism schools within the Yangtze River Delta Region through an integrated Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Grey Relational Analysis (GRA) framework-an innovative methodological attempt in this field. Focusing on developmental outcomes for autistic children, the research systematically prioritizes ten critical design elements across four autism-specific institutions using structured expert evaluations. AHP assigned objective weights to each element, while GRA enabled a comparative assessment of environmental per

SUBMITTER: Chen J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12680714 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature