Video games could help kids with autism learn social skills

Searching for a way to help children with autism, researcher Gail Alvares came up with a fairly simple equation. "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 . SEE ALSO: Virtual reality allows scientists to walk into a cancer cell 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 work