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"This project started over ten years ago with a study designed to determine whether virtual reality (VR) could help two children with autism learn the beginning skills of street crossing. The children were placed in a virtual world and practiced correctly observing and responding to the virtual world situations. The results indicated that these children could and did accept learning in a virtual world. Based on these results, we developed and tested home fire and street safety virtual reality programs to help children with autism practice dangerous safety skills in safe environments. We have extended these applications by interfacing videos to virtual reality to show that children ages 8-16 could benefit from computer simulated practice scenarios when learning real world social skills. In designing these programs, we also developed a series of related tools, which we have made available on this web site" [website].
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