Playing video games allows children with disabilities and life-limiting conditions to feel independent, maintain relationships with others and gain a sense of achievement and normality that may be difficult to find in everyday life, the Guardian reports. The charity Lifelites provides technology products and staff training to every children’s hospice in Britain, including adaptive technology that enables patients to continue using the equipment as their illness progresses. A child with special needs, a disability, you have to plan everything, you have to go about it slightly differently, but so be it. “Children who are able to play computer games, such as Minecraft, can have an amazing impact on their lives,” said Andrew Smith, director of Lifelites.
Playing video games allows children with disabilities and life-limiting conditions to feel independent, maintain relationships with others and gain a sense of achievement and normality that may be difficult to find in everyday life, the Guardian reports. The charity Lifelites provides technology products and staff training to every children’s hospice in Britain, including adaptive technology that enables patients to continue using the equipment as their illness progresses. “Children who are able to play computer games, such as Minecraft, can have an amazing impact on their lives,” said Andrew Smith, director of Lifelites.