Students build computational skills and their confidence and ability to talk about math effectively with these games.

Dungeons & Dragons, the 70s-era role-playing game, might bring to mind orcs and elves and multi-sided dice. But today, D&D and games like it are helping kids and teens learn important life skills.

The world of the game is orally constructed and conjured in the imagination with the help of rule books, reference guides, charts, multifaceted dice and maps. Rather than compete, players work ...

A new whitepaper from two Seattle organizations exhibits research into how tabletop roleplaying games, such as Wizards of the Coast’s Dungeons & Dragons, can be used to help children and ...

Autism Nova Scotia has set up a group of Dungeons and Dragons games to help people with autism practise their social skills. ... it takes dice and rule books to run a game of Dungeons and Dragons.

Games that Practice Social Skills. Many of these games and activities are great for kids with autism and other disabilities. They practice social skills, executive functions and much more. 1.

Social skills games can help build social development. Parents, teachers, school counselors, psychologists, and speech/language pathologists can implement these social skills games.

Young children who play a lot of video games may be more likely to have better intellectual and social skills than their non-gaming peers, a new scientific study has suggested.. The study ...

Playing video games may not necessarily impair children's social skills, and a new study suggests that any behavioral effect that frequent gaming might have may occur only in pre-teen girls.