Find your community
Find your community within gaming, streamers, support people and more.
One of the great things about gaming is it brings people from all over the world, from all walks of life together in online communities. Gaming is a great way to meet people, make connections, and combat feelings of isolation from the comfort of your own home.
You can connect with other gamers on platforms like Discord and Twitch. Discord is an instant messaging platform that also allows you to make voice and video calls over the internet. You connect with other people in virtual communities called “servers”. It is a popular platform among games. Twitch is a video streaming service where you can watch other gamers play or stream or you video game adventures.
If you are looking for disability specific online communities you’re in luck. Discord has servers for disabled gamers to interact. Twitch has many popular disabled streamers who you can watch and chat with.
As a hobby, gaming already incorporates several of the Enabling Good Lives principals, which underpin New Zealand’s approach to disability support.
Mainstream first - gaming is an incredibly popular, mainstream hobby, and our disabled community have the option of playing alongside anyone else thanks to accessible and adaptive technologies.
Easy to use - game developers are always looking at was to make games easier for our disabled community to use.
Ordinary life outcomes – gaming gives our disabled community opportunities for social participation just like anyone else.
