Ashburn: Experts have said that autism kids can now boost up their confidence by playing several videogames.
Not ignoring the fact that Autism impacts a person's ability to communicate and interact with others, the Steuart W. Weller Ashburn Elementary School in Virginia has taken up the initiiative of testing the benefits of Microsoft's popular Xbox game console, known as ‘Kinect’.
Kids can now play videogames like ‘Kinect’ without controllers, but instead use their bodies to dictate the action on the screen, courtesy of a motion detector. Kinect was not specifically designed for children with autism, but experts say the device is proving beneficial for some with the disability.
Researchers at the University of Minnesota have installed Kinect to identify signs of hyperactivity (one of the signs of autism).
‘Kinect is an affordable accessory that offers encouraging results for autism kids’ concluded Andy Shih, of Autism Speaker of Autism Science and Advocacy Organisation,
