Does anyone know of any research that has been done into the benefits and detriments of the use of an XBOX 360 by a child on the autistic spectrum. My son has been given one by his older brother which he has had for a while and it has lots of age appropriate games. In a matter of days he has mastered its use and his gaming skills are most impressive. The challenge is that given the choice he would play it to the exclusion of everything else. On the one hand I do not want to stop something he really enjoys and gives him great pleasure yet on the other hand I do not want him to be playing XBOX360 to the exclusion of everything else.
