2nd Life and autism
Reference: http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2008/03/31/2008033101588.html
Summary: This is an article from Chosun Ilbo about 2nd life and Autism on Tuesday, 01 April 2008. Professor Justin Cassell of North Western University, who is linguist and psychoanalyst, recently proved that virtual really can help people with autism from his experiments. For instance, an autistic could talk with a real child after he/she talked with a child in a virtual space. Another good example mentioned on this article was training for medical school students.
Yoon-Joo LEE’s opinion: Conventionally, it is said that because of the development of cyber-space people are tend to be more introvert. However, according to this article, Second life helps people with autism. I think that is a very decent idea that people can practice in a virtual space where it doesn’t cost that much and no need to arrange a meeting with shrink…Virtual world teaches real-world skills… I was so glad to read this article that virtual space can be more of a people tool :)
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Cyber space has changed a lot from a just the room for chatting to the space that enables people to feel that they are in the real world. Anyway, it's good to see the new change that is actually helpful to people.
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