Makayla is one of the children taking part in the UK trial by Invest in ME Research of No Isolation's AV1 robot: http://www.investinme.org/IIMER-Newslet-1711-02.shtml There's a super interview on BBC Radio Bristol this morning, starts just after 2 hours, 5 minutes, with Makayla's mum and English teacher... https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p064nl5c ETA link to the above segment - https://twitter.com/user/status/994500755091542017
It's so good to hear this experiment is working so well. Next step - department of education funding?
For those who can access it, the original audio section can be heard here, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b19jyn, at 46mins 37secs in.
Those who have developed the robot, AV1, just tweeted this https://twitter.com/user/status/994940265159909377
It seems to have been well accepted at a football club Everton too. Usually a child gets to accompany the Captain out on the pitch, get to meet players, have tours etc, but the robot was used to give the same experience. You can't get much of a better advert for inclusion than for the technology to be seen as socially good and cool? I really like the photo too. https://twitter.com/user/status/989786092940513280