My friends have a 7 year old son who has autistic developmental delays. They want to get him either a Nintendo DS or a Sony PSP for Christmas. Which system is better for children like this? Which one makes more children based games?
I just asked my 9 year old who has both of the systems. He said definitely the nintendo ds because you can play DS games, Gameboy games and Gameboy Advance games. There are also two screens and have a Stylus (one of those plastic pencil things) that he uses on some games. This helps with his fine motor skills.
If there is another DS nearby and they sync up, my son can communicate by writing on the screen with the Stylus and they can send messages to each other…kind of like creating their own PECS.
Hope this helps.
DS is better there are many educative and interactive games for it.
PSP isnt that good and most games are t for teens or violence
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A nintendo ds
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D’S my son with down syndrome can use 1 quit easy and his only 4 ..but the psp is not so easy to master and to be honest the game are more aimed at adults
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I have heard that the psp is difficult. Another suggestion is what we did for our 7 y.o. ASD son is bought a used game boy advance. The graphics aren’t nearly as good, but we wanted something where we weren’t investing so much into it. The used non folding ones you can get for 25 dollars. Also the used games for these are very inexpensive and there are lots for under 10 dollars.
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I just asked my 9 year old who has both of the systems. He said definitely the Nintendo DS because you can play DS games, Gameboy games and Gameboy Advance games. There are also two screens and have a Stylus (one of those plastic pencil things) that he uses on some games. This helps with his fine motor skills.
If there is another DS nearby and they sync up, my son can communicate by writing on the screen with the Stylus and they can send messages to each other…kind of like creating their own PECS.
Hope this helps.
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