The innovative project is being carried out at the Cerebral Palsy Research & Therapy Centre in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in conjunction with health charity The Children's Foundation.
The children are given access to specially designed computer games, which they can play by using motion-sensitive controllers from the Wii games console to help develop their co-ordination. The games, Sunset and Brick Break, run on a laptop that has been adapted to work with Wii controllers.
Janice Pearse, occupational therapist at the centre, said: "We have already heard from the children that they really enjoy the games and this form of fun therapy really is seeing results. In fact, two children can now use some of the easier games available on the actual Wii console."
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