malappuram instead of being left out of the fun that technology can provide children with disabilites will now be able to play computer games with the help of a free software the society for promotion of alternative computing and employment space under the state it mission has developed a package of virtual games exclusively for disabled persons aged 6 to 16 space has also designed a special curriculum of games that aim at changing the mindset of persons with learning disabilities and turn them into confident individuals by means of continous virtual practice the package of games childs play developed by space can be easily handled by disabled children including those having autism or cerebral palsy cp said arun m executive director of space the games under different categories focus on different themes such as colours vocabulary memory power shades calculations attention musical taste and so on we have decided to provide the cd consisting of games and software free of cost to parents after evaluating the nature of disability of their ward our psychology experts will prescribe appropriate games arun said the games will help children be part of the family fun and will improve learning capacity thinking power memory improve handeye coordination and will also help improve keyboard and mouse skills the games collection which was developed on a free software platform is available at the space office at thiruvananthapuram and in all regional it mission offices space also trains parents of the disabled children on how to use the software dr s sunilkumar a child psychology specialist at thiruvangoor higher secondary school kozhikode said that audio visual games will help bring a positive change in learning levels of children visuals can deeply influence their mind and the simple games will help them recover from depression to a certain level he said