{"id":4806,"date":"2019-05-09T16:14:10","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T15:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/?p=4806"},"modified":"2022-05-30T16:21:55","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T15:21:55","slug":"nevilles-back-on-the-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/news\/nevilles-back-on-the-pitch","title":{"rendered":"Neville&#8217;s back on the pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4807 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Neville2019large.jpg\" alt=\"Seated man playing football video game. Inset shows close-up of hands and controller\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Neville2019large.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Neville2019large-250x167.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Neville2019large-700x467.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Neville2019large-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Neville2019large-120x80.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Neville visited our Games Room, hoping to be able to play video games with his son. His spinal injury means he finds it really difficult to use a controller, especially the joysticks and the buttons on the back. Our specialist assessment team worked with him to create an alternative controller setup that matched his abilities &#8211; including a combination of a laptop tray, a Microsoft XAC, an adapted large joystick and two remapped trigger switches &#8211; and now he\u2019s back in the game!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neville visited our Games Room, hoping to be able to play video games with his son. His spinal injury means he finds it really difficult to use a controller, especially the joysticks and the buttons on the back. Our specialist assessment team worked with him to create an alternative controller setup that matched his abilities&#8230; <a class=\"view-article\" href=\"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/news\/nevilles-back-on-the-pitch\">View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4808,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-case-study"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Neville&#039;s back on the pitch - SpecialEffect<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.specialeffect.org.uk\/news\/nevilles-back-on-the-pitch\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Neville&#039;s back on the pitch - SpecialEffect\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Neville visited our Games Room, hoping to be able to play video games with his son. 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