ly disabled children can learn how to protect themselves from being victims of crime or other exploitation, the principal text of the story focuses on ways in which children have made use of computer skills to improve their personal communication skills, related not only to writing and composition but also to speech and interpersonal communication.
The key to success in this regard appears to have been specially equipped laserdisk interactive technology and computer-simulated stimulus-response "virtual" environments, as well as the psychological experience of interacting with the hardware and software itself. What appears to be the case from a psychological point of view is that special computer programs are close enough to the environment of popular video games to facilitate strong results with computer-assisted instruction. Such simulation is not only that of a virtual environment, on this view; it is also a simulation of a decidedly mainstream activity for children: playing in the video arcade. Thus laser disks are more useful than linear experiences; s
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