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GFH: Autistic Can Benefit From Games, Lots of Titles on the Way

By pete_gallagher

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The Center for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) affects 1 in 110 children, a number that is spurring the development of games designed to help those with the disorder. A panel today at Games for Health discussed some autism-specific titles that are currently in the works.

Rob Morris from the MIT Media Lab outlined one potential hurdle to developing such games—those with autism typically demonstrate very specific interests, meaning that any game must be adaptable to a particular patient. Morris demonstrated one way around this issue, a Flash/Action Script-based title that implements a custom Google image search in order to infuse a specific element—that the player can identify with—into the game. The hope is to eventually release an open source version of this game.
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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on May 27, 2010 (boomark / email).

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