Video Game Therapy as an Intervention for Children With Disabilities Literature Review and Program Protocol.
Childhood obesity, autism spectrum disorder, and developmental disability are among a long list of physical and cognitive conditions facing many youth today that can all benefit from a treatment program that includes a video game therapy intervention administered by a recreation therapist. Video gam...
| Publicado en: | Therapeutic Recreation Journal Vol. 51; no. 3; pp. 221 - 229 |
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Sagamore Publishing
2017
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