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Mangan, Katherine – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
Asperger's patients have been treated by role-playing with real-life therapists. The virtual-reality town at the medical center is a new twist. The University of Texas at Dallas uses a platform from Second Life, the popular virtual world, in which patients go to an "island" customized for therapeutic purposes. The island was built by…
Descriptors: Medical Services, Cues, Computer Simulation, Patients