SpecialEffect | Paul plays using mouth and head movement
Meet Paul, who's playing and winning thanks to ongoing support from our specialist therapists. Paul has very limited movement due to a spinal injury, and uses an assistive technology gaming setup that combines head control, mouth control and carefully-placed switches next to parts of his body.
"SpecialEffect has just completely changed my life, and it's really sort of the best medicine that I've got," he said. "It's something that helps you just completely forget about everything and all the pains of the day seem to go away."
"When you're playing a battle royale against 99 other players and you know that you've won with just your mouth and your head movement, it's just such a good feeling."
Huge thanks to Paul, and our grateful thanks to
The Science Museum Group
and
for their kind permission
to use this video which they created for The Science and Media Museum in Bradford, UK.
SpecialEffect is a UK-based charity that's helping people with physical disabilities to play video games around the world.
Founded in 2007, we provide lifelong face-to-face support on an individual basis to hundreds of people across the UK each year. We’re also answering thousands of enquiries from around the world and having an increasing global influence through our collaboration with hardware and software developers. Our own freely available accessibility utilities are bringing the magic of gaming within reach of thousands more.
We don’t charge for anything we do. We simply aim to do whatever it takes to raise the quality of life of as many disabled gamers all over the world as possible. Consider supporting our work by becoming a regular giver: https://specialeffect.enthuse.com/donatemonthly#!/
Discover more about our work at https://www.specialeffect.org.uk/
SpecialEffect is a registered UK charity (1121004).