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This video is about a research project led by Dr Stefan Michalski. The project uses Virtual reality or VR is a pretend world. You can see and hear it when you wear a special headset. The headset shows pictures and sounds that feel like a real place. Virtual reality can help you practise things so that you feel calm and know what to do. For example, you can practise going to the doctor using a virtual reality headset. Virtual reality or VR is a pretend world. You can see and hear it when you wear a special headset. The headset shows pictures and sounds that feel like a real place. Virtual reality can help you practise things so that you feel calm and know what to do. For example, you can practise going to the doctor using a virtual reality headset. (VR). is a headset that lets you see and hear a pretend health visit.
The video shows what you will see in the headset. It lets you practise a health visit in a safe place. This can help you feel calm and ready.
This video can help you:
- know what a health visit is like
- feel less worried
- feel more confident.
This resource was made by
National Centre of Excellence in Intellectual Disability Health
The National Centre of Excellence in Intellectual Disability Health (the Centre) works to improve health services and the health system so people with intellectual disability can live their best, healthiest lives.
The Centre was funded by the Australian Government. It is part of the National Roadmap for Improving the Health of People with Intellectual Disability.
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