Game Name
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Performance
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Platform
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Functions
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Company
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Price
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Website
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Ron Gets Dressed
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Shows ron getting dressed for various weather climates.
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Website - Click and drag game
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Helps child dress properly for different weather conditions. Prevents children from doing repetitive actions.
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Swinburne University of Technology
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FREE
| |
Robbie the Robot
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Shows various faces, which have to be matched to the corresponding emotion.
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Website -
Click to select
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Helps children practice identifying emotions in a non-confrontational environment.
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Swinburne University of Technology
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FREE
| |
The Feelings Game
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Show pictures of a variety of different people, each with different facial expression, which correspond to a certain emotion.
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Website -
Click to select
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Helps teach children a variety of emotions.
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do2Learn
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FREE
| |
What’s Different?
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Presents a question and then shows four different images, and you have to select the one that is different.
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Website -
Click to select
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Helps teach how to differentiate things.
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do2Learn
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FREE
| |
Non-Computer Autistic Games
Game Name
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Performance
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Platform
|
Functions
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Company
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Price
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Website
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Proloquo2Go - Symbol-based AAC
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Presents images along with spoken word.
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Apple App
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Helps children who have difficulty building vocabulary and speaking
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AssistiveWare
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$249.99
| |
iTubeList
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Video Service
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Apple App
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Functions as a video list, used to prevent autistic children from seeing anything inappropriate online.
|
Dan Solo LLC
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FREE
| |
Endless Alphabet
|
Learning Aid
|
Apple App
|
Teaches the alphabet through word association
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Originator Inc.
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$6.99
| |
AutisMate
|
Picture App
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Apple App
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Helps autistic children become more familiar with new surroundings.
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SpecialNeedsWare
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$149.99
|
General-Purpose Games
Game Name
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Performance
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Platform
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Functions
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Company
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Price
|
Website
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Minecraft
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Video Game - Construction/Survival
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Computer and Apple App
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Helps tap into the creative potential of kids and allows them to think past their limitations in the real world.
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Microsoft
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$26.95 - Computer
| |
Project: EVO
(In development/clinical trials)
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Video Game - designed for daily brain therapy
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App
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Develops brain skills through a game that gradually increases in difficulty and is designed based on a profile it makes for the user.
|
Akili
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N/A
|
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- As far as nearby organizations go, there are plenty. There’s an Autism Speaks location, the YAI Autism Center, the Brooklyn Autism Center, The Center for Autism and the Developing Brain, the Manhattan Childrens Center, and others.
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