Be Amazed!

Jacinta Vengtasamy

Wellbeing Counsellor

Amaze is a leading autism organisation driving change so that Autistic people and their families can live their best lives.  

Amaze builds autism understanding in the community, influences policy change for autistic people and their families/supporters, and provides independent, credible information and resources to individuals, families, professionals, government and the wider community. Find out more at https://www.amaze.org.au/.

In reviewing Amaze's website, we many links that would be of great use and support to students and thier parents/carers. We have chosen to highlight a range of resources that relate to gaming, and that we thought could be most useful to our community. Of course, some of this information is relevant to both the Autistic community and the neuro-typical community too.  We hope they will be of assistance.

I CAN run interest groups for young Autistic people, including gaming based groups 

Interchange Outer Eastprovide services for people with disabilities, including a gaming group 

GameAwareprovide mentoring for young gamers and their families around maintaining a healthy balance in their gaming. They have an autism-specific group. 

Taming Gamingis a database of video games and board games for parents to use to familiarise themselves with what their children are playing.  

Habitica is an app for mobile that gamifies tasks and goals. 

If you are interested in learning more from Amaze about issues related to video gaming, Amaze are hosting an online webinar called 'Using Gaming to Support Collaborative Skills and Positive Autistic Identity’ featuring Jess Rowlings and Dr Matthew Harrison. This webinar will be the final webinar in their eSafety series, and will include the launch of guides for parents and videos on safe online video gaming. You can register for that webinar here.