Give Kids Games provides entertainment and activities to make the stay at children’s hospitals more pleasant and also help in the healing process.
You may help by providing electronic video games for the patient’s use. Currently, 65 systems and 295 games have been provided to Children’s Hospital at OU Medical Center. The goal is a continued mission to provide additional gaming systems, carts, televisions, and security for the provided systems.
Nintendo’s Wii, with games such as virtual boxing, golf, and bowling are just examples as to how some hospitals in our nation are beginning to use the systems as not only a form of mental healing power but also a form of physical therapy. In addition, many games are designed to help in the learning process and assist with rapid eye and hand movement. Dr. Grigore Burdea, a world leader in computer-based virtual reality techniques in rehabilitation therapies, believes that in five years every hospital and rehab clinic will have embraced the gaming technology for their patients.
Please be a part of a continued effort to encourage and support doctors who are currently researching the power of games for healing. Your donation and support is truly appreciated.