February is Disability Month, and Microsoft is highlighting kids with disabilities using its adaptive controller to play video games in its upcoming Super Bowl commercial that will air in the fourth quarter of the game this weekend.
The company just released its extended version of the commercial.
Included in the video is Studio City sixth grader, Grover Siegel, who was featured in the Journal last summer in the story “Portrait of the Young Man as an Artist,” about his extraordinary artistic talent and his first painting exhibition.
Grover was born without a fully-formed right hand, and in the Super Bowl commercial he can be seen, along with other children playing video games with Microsoft’s adaptive controller. With a huge smile on his face, he says in the video, thanks to the adaptive controller, “I think I can crush my friends [when gaming].”
Grover’s mother, Jennifer Manley, says in the video, “You never want your kid to feel like an outsider or an ‘other.'”
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