Dr. Dorothy Strickland heads a government funded research group that focuses primarily on using Virtual Reality (VR) to teach children with Pervasive Developmental Disorders such as autism.
http://wwwx.cs.unc.edu/Research/assist/et/notes/strickland/index.shtml
During her research she developed this clever VR java applet to help children with autism associate facial expressions with emotions.
http://www.do2learn.com/games/facialexpressions/face.htm
Also, second life is being used as a platform to practice socialization for people with Asperger's Syndrome (also from the Autistic spectrum of disorders).
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7012645/
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I think this is such a great thing!
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