A SPECIAL games suite inspired by a teenager who is unable to control her limbs, has been launched at an Oxford hospice.

Helen Oakley has been a visitor to Helen House, in Magdalen Road, East Oxford, since she was a toddler.

The 14-year-old suffers from a rare metabolic disorder, meaning she finds it very difficult to control her body, and any kind of movement, including speech, can suddenly start convulsions or involuntary movement.

Speaking or moving any of her limbs is a difficult, tiring and uncomfortable process, and means Helen cannot play like other children her age.

But thanks to an innovative computer games project which can be worked with just a flick of the eyes, Helen and hundreds of other children like her can finally play together. Helen’s mother Sandra Robertson, from Milton Keynes, said seeing her daughter able to play a computer game with brother Stuart was amazing.

She added: “The first thing Helen did when she used the eye control software was write a message to her friend: ‘I am doing this on my own for the first time in my life’.

“There are no words to describe how that feels.”