"Keeping up with school work and maintaining the everyday activity of going to school gives hospitalized kids a reassuring sense of routine," says an educational technology coordinator for Stanford Children's Hospital's CHARIOT program, which has partnered with the Palo Alto Unified School District to offer virtual reality school lessons to kids too ill to attend the hospital's in-person Hospital School.
The in-person School School has been offered to patients at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford since 1924, allowing them to keep up with their learning throughout their hospitalization, per an Aug.
23 news release from Stanford Medicine.
However, the VR lessons for patients who are too ill or immunocompromised to learn alongside the other children in the in-person School School are the first to be offered to kids who are too ill or immunocompromised to attend the in-person School, according to the release.
The Stanford CHARIOT program, which stands for Childhood Anxiety Reduction through Innovation and Technology, launched the VR lessons through its immersive technology education program, allowing the children unable to attend Hospital School to learn with a VR headset offering various subjects and lessons.
"Keeping up with school work and maintaining the everyday activity of going to school gives hospitalized kids a reassuring sense of routine," says
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