{"id":27648,"date":"2016-07-09T09:32:27","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T16:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/microsoft-uses-bbc-micro-bit-and-virtual-reality-to-prepare-autistic-kids-for-jobs"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:08:29","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:08:29","slug":"microsoft-uses-bbc-micro-bit-and-virtual-reality-to-prepare-autistic-kids-for-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/microsoft-uses-bbc-micro-bit-and-virtual-reality-to-prepare-autistic-kids-for-jobs","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft uses BBC Micro Bit and virtual reality to prepare autistic kids for jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nNED8UQvS9k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Good work by Microsoft.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Autism is a spectrum disorder, meaning not all people that meet the classification have identical behaviors. Some of these folks are very functional, while others may struggle more to socialize, or not be able to hold jobs.<\/p>\n<p>According to Microsoft, 85 percent of those with Autism do not hold full-time employment. This is unfortunate, as some of those with the classification are likely falling through the cracks \u2014 capable of work, but not equipped. Luckily, the Windows-maker, in association with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caspabromley.org.uk\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">CASPA<\/a> and Dennis Publishing, is aiming to change this with some unlikely tools \u2014 the BBC Micro Bit and HTC Vive virtual reality solution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe participants \u2014 aged between seven and 19 \u2014 were taught to code using the BBC micro: bit \u2014 a programmable mini-computer that features an LED display, accelerometer, compass, micro USB plug and external battery pack. They learned to light up the LEDs, and change that display by moving and turning the micro: bit\u201d, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/en-gb\/2016\/07\/08\/26950\/\" target=\"_blank\">says<\/a> Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/betanews.com\/2016\/07\/08\/microsoft-virtual-reality-bbc-micro-bit-autistim\/\">http:\/\/betanews.com\/2016\/07\/08\/microsoft-virtual-reality-bbc-micro-bit-autistim\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good work by Microsoft. Autism is a spectrum disorder, meaning not all people that meet the classification have identical behaviors. Some of these folks are very functional, while others may struggle more to socialize, or not be able to hold jobs. According to Microsoft, 85 percent of those with Autism do not hold full-time employment. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,32,1878,47,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-education","category-employment","category-neuroscience","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27648"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61257,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27648\/revisions\/61257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}