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SpecialEffect celebrate 20th anniversary gaze control breakthrough
This month, SpecialEffect are celebrating the 20th Anniversary of when Dr Mick Donegan, their Founder and CEO, developed the first, ground-breaking Tobii gaze control interface with coder Kirk Ewing. This was not only a watershed moment for people with severe motor challenges all over the world, but it also helped to give Mick the confidence…
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“The impact and positive change is huge”
Every year we’re grateful for the amazing One Special Day support from the global games industry in helping to bring incredible gaming moments to physically disabled gamers across the world! With this year’s event taking place on Friday 6 October, we’re again inviting the industry to partner with us in a variety of ways, through…
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Industry takes to the skies for One Special Abseil
The UK games industry and friends will take on the Anfield Abseil on 22 September in aid of SpecialEffect’s annual One Special Day campaign! Companies and studios from across the games industry including Sony Playstation, Lucid Games, Wushu Studios, Criterion Games, Escape Technology, Ripstone, Secret Mode, Playdemic, VTime, NDreams, Amiqus, Press Engine and Xbox will…
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“We have a very happy young man here!”
Chris has doubled his gaming fun thanks to ongoing support and advice from our specialist assessment team. Chris has Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and our team first helped him with a carefully-configured adapted gaming controller setup in 2020. He’s since found gaming more difficult, so his family got back in touch to see whether we could…
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Paul’s Call of Duty brotherly bond
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41Qcv34tpB4 Paul’s life-changing injury didn’t just devastate his own gaming, it had a big effect on the people he’d enjoyed playing with. A high spinal injury in 2013 left him with virtually no finger movement and very limited arm movement, and the loss of his Call of Duty camaraderie and competitiveness was particularly felt by…
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Reuniting Brenda with an old gaming friend
Brenda’s overjoyed to be back playing the game she’s loved for over 30 years thanks to an adapted controller setup devised by our specialist assessment team. She’s a huge Legend of Zelda fan, but weak muscle strength and reduced fine motor skills due to multiple sclerosis meant using a standard controller to play hadn’t been…
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