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Bringing Max’s hands into play
Here’s a stick-swap with a difference! Our specialist assessment team have helped foot-control expert Max to discover just the right combination of equipment and positioning for controlling joysticks with her hands as well as her feet. Max’s cerebral palsy makes using a standard controller with her hands tricky, but her flying feet had enabled her…
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“I’m able to play so much more!”
We couldn’t be more thankful for your all your support and generosity, and THIS is the kind of life-changing impact it’s making for so many people around the world. Meet Oliver. He has Tourette’s syndrome and his physical tics making gaming very challenging: holding a gamepad is painful and he often presses the wrong buttons…
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SpecialEffect win Ukie Diversity and Inclusion Award
We were delighted and humbled to receive the Diversity and Inclusion Award at the 2024 Ukie Video Game Awards in Birmingham on Thursday 7 March. The award recognises a UK organisation or individual working within the UK games industry that encouraged meaningful diversity and inclusion within the games industry in 2023, and the shortlist included…
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“The benefits are beyond our expectations”
Last year, the manufacturers of the small remote-controlled AV1 desktop robots that we use for our BubbleBusters project asked if we would be able to help a child in a Scottish primary school. The pupil was receiving chemotherapy treatment and would be off school for at least a year, missing out on lessons and vital…
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“No matter what MND throws at me, SpecialEffect come up with solutions”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmkPKstOMdo It’s a privilege to be supporting Sam with his gaming journey. He has motor neurone disease, and our specialist assessment team first helped him to play games with an adapted gaming controller setup that included a chin-controlled joystick and leg-operated button switches. Take a look at the short video of his story below. As…
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When UpIsNotJump visited SpecialEffect
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0J9PG57sak For GameBlast24, we were visited by a wonderful new friend of the charity, UpIsNotJump (Matt), his wife Emma and videographer Milo, to film a video all about SpecialEffect’s work into making gaming more accessible for physically disabled gamers. An entire day’s filming full of accessible games, cake, ridiculously strong coffee and stories resulted in…
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