Piloting Virtual Reality Therapy for Additional Learning Needs

Piloting Virtual Reality Therapy for Everyday Anxiety

Vision Fountain are dedicated to working with diverse communities and people with more complex needs.

Through our recent project partnerships with Additional Learning Needs (ALN) hubs across Wales, we have seen first-hand how, immersive technology (both immersive video and environments built on gaming engines), can bring benefits.

Building on community projects, often with people with neurodivergency, featuring VR experiences and immersive video, we were approached by Methyr-based charity, Legacy In The Community, to consider the potential potential of creating everyday immersive environments for school children with complex needs.

These simulations enable individuals to practise real-world situations, in a safe, controlled settings.

We are now in the final stages of deploying realistic shoppping environments and interactive environments modelled on a typical convenience store.

The scenario supports graded exposure so people can progress at their own pace.  By introducing anxiety-provoking elements gradually. Virtual Reality helps desensitise users and build effective coping strategies – without the immediate pressures of the real world.

We will shortly be delivering the project and together we’ll trial and test immersive real-world experince with people who suffer with anxiety.

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Peilotio Therapi Amlygiad Rhith-realiti ar gyfer Pryder Bob Dydd

Mae Vision Fountain wedi ymrwymo i weithio gyda chymunedau amrywiol a phobl sydd ag anghenion mwy cymhleth. Trwy’n partneriaethau â hybiau Anghenion Dysgu Ychwanegol (ADY) ledled Cymru, rydym wedi gweld o brofiad uniongyrchol yr hyder a’r tawelwch y gall rhith-realiti (VR) eu datgloi.

Gan adeiladu ar brosiectau cymunedol sy’n cynnwys profiadau VR a fideo trochiadol, cawsom ein cysylltu gan elusen a gydnabu’r potensial i greu amgylcheddau trochi bob dydd. Mae’r efelychiadau hyn yn galluogi unigolion i ymarfer sefyllfaoedd byd go iawn—megis ymweld â siopau, banciau, neu deithio ar drên—mewn lleoliad diogel a rheoledig.

Rydym bellach yn y camau olaf o ddatblygu amgylchedd siopa syml, realistig wedi’i fodelu ar siop gyfleustra nodweddiadol. Mae’r senario’n cefnogi amlygiad graddol fel y gall pobl symud ymlaen ar eu cyflymder eu hunain. Drwy gyflwyno elfennau sy’n sbarduno pryder yn raddol, mae VR yn helpu i ddadsensiteiddio defnyddwyr ac adeiladu strategaethau ymdopi effeithiol—heb bwysau uniongyrchol y byd go iawn.