ADAPTIVE GAMING IN CLINICAL REHABILITATION
We’re building the infrastructure clinical adaptive gaming research requires.
ReSpawn Foundation trains clinicians, builds adaptive gaming hubs inside hospitals and collects the data to establish adaptive gaming as a standard part of rehabilitation.
THE PROBLEM WE’RE SOLVING
The adaptive gaming solutions exist. The clinical infrastructure to deliver them doesn’t.
People returning from injury who want to get back to gaming often find life-changing adaptive hardware on their own, through YouTube, Reddit, and community forums. Their care teams, the people positioned to help them most, frequently have no idea these tools exist. There is no training, no protocol, no systematic way for hospitals to identify who needs help or how to provide it.
“All of my occupational therapists didn’t even know this thing existed.”
HOW WE WORK
Three interlocking programs
Each ReSpawn program addresses a distinct layer of the same systemic gap, and each one makes the others more effective. Together they form the infrastructure that clinical adaptive gaming research requires.
ReSpawn Points
Adaptive gaming hubs inside hospitals
Programming and equipment integrated into rehabilitation hospitals so gaming becomes a standard, not an afterthought.
Clinician Training
Curriculum for OTs, PTs, SLPs, rec therapists, etc.
Asynchronous modules, in-person onboarding, and ongoing training/support.
Clinical Registry
The first dataset in adaptive gaming
A dataset collecting participation, independence, and engagement data to build the evidence base the field needs.
The logic of the pipeline
ReSpawn Points create the clinical settings where patients can access adaptive gaming. Trained clinicians run those programs with consistency and rigor. The registry captures what happens, building an outcomes dataset that no single hospital could produce alone. The evidence that emerges from that data is what transforms adaptive gaming from community practice into standard of care.
Built around upper extremity and physical disability
As an occupational therapy-founded organization, ReSpawn's programs are designed around the clinical realities of hand, arm, and upper extremity impairment, the population most directly affected by the loss of standard gaming controls.