From the Washington Post:

Online environments are increasingly allowing people with disabilities to develop skills or gain confidence.

Susan Brown, who had a stroke four years ago, has regained use of her legs thanks in part to encouragement she gets from an online “virtual world” where she can walk, run and even dance. Other people use online avatars to help them learn to deal with agoraphobia, autism, cerebral palsy, depression, paralysis, cystic fibrosis and other conditions.

“We’re at a major technical and social transition with this technology. It has very recently started to become a very big deal, and we haven’t by any means digested what the implications are,” said William Sims Bainbridge, a social scientist at the National Science Foundation.

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