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Daily Coronavirus Check-in: How robots at school are changing the lives of sick children

It has been so lovely to see the kids back at school and around their friends and teachers again as the restrictions around COVID lifted for most of the country. But for thousands of sick Aussie kids, this hasn’t been the case. One mum witnessed this first hand, when her once vibrant ten-year-old son missed school for almost two years with rare blood disorders. She had to watch as he deteriorated through lack of contact with his friends and tutors, when the hospital became his school. So Megan Gilmore wanted to do something about it, show him that he had a future and a life worth living, and also change the lives of the other sixty thousand children who are sitting at home or hospital right now, disconnected from their school community.  

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Original URL: https://www.ntnews.com.au/lifestyle/parenting/daily-coronavirus-checkin-how-robots-at-school-are-changing-the-lives-of-sick-children/audio/47ef672ffc3f4a4441e59cdfdabc96e6