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Searching for a way to help children with autism, researcher Gail Alvares came up with a fairly simple equation.<\/p>\n

“We like games, we know that kids like games, so why don’t we develop something that could become an additional part of therapy,” she told Mashable Australia<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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As part of her work at the University of Western Australia and the Telethons Kids Institute, a medical research organisation based in Perth, Alvares is working on a video game project aimed at teaching kids with autism vital social skills.<\/p>\n

The game, currently dubbed Frankie and Friends<\/em>, is intended to help such children begin to process social information \u2014 an idea Alvares described in an article<\/a> for ABC News<\/em>. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

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