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Combating Social Isolation Through Play

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HOW WE ARE CHANGING LIVES

Creating opportunities that enable play in order to combat social isolation, foster inclusive communities, and improve the quality of life for people with disabilities.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, people across the globe have realized the threat of social isolation. But for people with disabilities, social isolation has been an ongoing epidemic. While things have undoubtedly gotten worse as the pandemic has progressed, 35-45% of people with disabilities were profoundly socially isolated even before COVID.

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Our Focus

Play is a powerful weapon against the epidemic of social isolation. Play, specifically via gaming, gives people an accessible way to reach beyond the physical confines of their homes, connect with other players all over the world.

Five Pillars

The world of games and gaming provides people with disabilities an opportunity to build rich social engagements, lifelong friendships, and connect with players who share similar experiences. Simply put, AbleGamers believes in using the power of play and inclusion to connect players, build communities and combat social isolation.

Peer
Counseling

Providing 1-on-1 guidance to assess player needs in order to enable play

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Engineering
Research

Creating assistive technologies that provide solutions to barriers to play

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Community
Development

Fostering opportunities for camaraderie to forge lifelong relationships.

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User
Research

Discovering barriers and solutions to facilitate accessible player experiences

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Professional
Development

Guiding Industry philosophies to promote an inclusive and accessible future.

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AbleGamers Appoints New Director of Peer Counseling

Today we announced the appointment of Dr. Andy Wu as our new Senior Director of Peer Counseling. Bringing with him over a decade of expertise in occupational therapy and a deep understanding of program development, Dr. Wu will directly manage…

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Building the capacity to do more good.

Steve Spohn wasn’t supposed to live past 2. He rang in 40 by raising $1 million for AbleGamers Charity Article by JOSHUA AXELROD Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Turning 40 means more than a midlife crisis to Steve Spohn. The Bethel Park resident…

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The AbleGamers Foundation

Check out the Forza Horizon 4 car design that will be used in the AbleGamers Brazil live stream fundraiser tomorrow, September 25th.

Streaming from noon (EST) until 8 PM (EST) raising money ...for AbleGamers Brazil on our Twitch channel. https://www.twitch.tv/ablegamers
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The AbleGamers Foundation

AbleGamers has certified more than 200 developers through our 2-day Certified APX Practitioner training program gives game designers the deep knowledge to really move the needle on accessibility in ...their studios.
Learn more at https://Accessible.Games
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