GAMEON: Bridging Digital Gaming and Real-World Skills for Autistic Individuals

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GAMEON: Bridging Digital Gaming and Real-World Skills for Autistic Individuals

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Autistic people incessantly face vital challenges in social interactions, communication, and government functioning, alongside excessive charges of hysteria. While early psycho-educational assist is important, entry is commonly tough, and traditional interventions are restricted by low affected person motivation and challenges in generalizing realized expertise to every day routines. Digital video games are rising as a promising, complementary technique as a consequence of their inherent partaking nature, which boosts adherence and cognitive perform. However, a crucial hole exists: severe video games developed particularly for autism usually lack the strong gameplay expertise of leisure video games, making them much less user-friendly. Despite proof that leisure video games may also foster talent enchancment, their integration into formal assist stays restricted, and stakeholders usually lack consciousness of their advantages. The GAMEON Erasmus+ challenge addresses these limitations by innovating assist by a novel digital method. Instead of creating one other ad-hoc severe sport, GAMEON makes use of online game modding of established leisure titles. This technique considerably enhances sustainability and accessibility by way of common marketplaces. GAMEON pioneers a blended studying expertise designed to beat talent generalization points. This method hyperlinks digital sport progress with real-life, gamified missions. By mixing the digital expertise with gradual publicity to real-life difficult actions, GAMEON goals to show if talent acquisition could be transferred between the 2 domains. A preliminary 6-month outcomes will likely be introduced, together with a complete information offering a framework for assessing and choosing appropriate video games, alongside a preliminary cross-country report summarizing the findings and customary patterns that emerged from wants evaluation workshops carried out with the autistic neighborhood.

Elio Salvadori will converse within the session devoted to MENTAL HEALTH, on March thirty first from 11.15-12.45