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| - | == '''Brigadoon''' ==
| + | [[Brigadoon]] - an island and support group to help people with Asperger's Syndrome. |
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| - | A Second Life community to support people with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger#Asperger.27s_Syndrome Aspergers Syndrome].
| + | [[healthinfo]] island - Part of the info islands - a collection of sites supporting health information. |
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| - | The [http://braintalk.blogs.com/brigadoon/2005/01/about_brigadoon.html Brigadoon Blog] includes background information about Brigadoon, although it appears that the blog has been dormant since about April 2006.
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| - | The concept of Brigadoon is that it provides a safe place for people with Asperger's Syndrome to meet and interact with one another on-line. The benefit of Second Life is that the AS sufferer has difficulty in reading visual and other non-verbal clues during interaction with others. Within SL, avatars don't have the richness of expression and gesture found in Real Life, and so there are fewer distractions to worry about.
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Revision as of 15:46, 17 January 2007
Brigadoon - an island and support group to help people with Asperger's Syndrome.
healthinfo island - Part of the info islands - a collection of sites supporting health information.
