Dartmouth Research Lab Builds Games for Autistic Students—Government Technology

Read article—Lynn Fiellin, a professor of biomedical data science, is featured in an article about a grant her play2PREVENT Lab received to develop a video game for young people on the autism spectrum. She also talks about the lab's larger work designing games that teach adolescents and teens skills they can apply in life. "The beauty with [gaming] is that, since it’s interactive, they then, as the player, have the opportunity to do something ... How do you learn to help a friend who is struggling and needs counseling? I mean, this is not something a 16-year-old necessarily knows," Fiellin said.