What are the best games and toys children with autism?

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What are best games toys and gadgets children between the ages of 2 to 18 years old with autism spectrum disorder enjoy playing with, that also develops cognition, socialization, motor, perceptual and language skills?

Why do you ask?

For me, I have a Kindle Fire HD, a PS3, and I draw and write frequently. I was never big on anything like Barbies.

Balls. They're round and they help with motor skills. Neigbours and relatives can toss the ball with the child and everyone can communicate at the same time. They also look the same, because they're all round.

Autistic kids have individual different likes and dislikes when it comes to toys and nearly everything else because they're like, you know, people.

When I was a kid I wasn't diagnosed, but I had my preferences. Like soft plush toys that were comforting at bedtime and encouraged role play. But I also really liked arts and crafts-themed toys like drawing and painting and making handmade objects. But I didn't really care for puzzle or problem-solving toys at all, I would get very easily bored and frustrated with them. And as for gross-motor skill toys, forget it! Of course, not all kids on the spectrum would be into what I was into.

I honestly think it all depends on what their "special interests" are. If it's not something your child has one of those obsessive interests in they will completely ignore the toy.

I'm speaking as an aspie boy who was always given footballs and race cars as birthday and christmas presents and all he ever wanted to play with were the little broken peices of various toys and objects and using his own imagination to make stuff out of those peices.

Like for example the broken hand of a Barbie Doll could be Thing from The Addams Family and the tail of a dinosaur could be a slithering snake.

I really liked card games and board games as a kid and still do.

I also really liked small plastic dolls and figures because I could take them anywhere with me and play with them whenever I wanted. Although a few of them did get lost during some journey or adventure.

I kind of hope they didn't try to find their way back home like in Toy Story, because if they did make it back they might have decided to take their anger and frustration out on ME. I can almost see them peering through my window while I sleep at night, plotting their revenge...

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I’m not diagnosed, but when I was little, I used to like squeezy, spiky gel balls with bits of stretchy plastic you could pull. I don’t know what they’re called. I liked stretchy aliens, too. The rest of my toys were what any other little girl would have had.

I found this a few months ago when I was looking for something else, and I think it looks like it would be fun:
https://www.autism-products.com/product/spin-disc/