Traditional games can help special children develop motor skills, dexterity, comprehension

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"Even in early times, men and women played to express happiness," she said, pointing out that it contributed to mental and physical welfare. The games still not disappeared from villages.

In the course of her research, she discovered that there were nearly 100 games relating to moving coins on squares. "Dice games have been inscribed on the stone floors of ancient temples. This shows that people gathered to play games in temples, which were the centres of activity."

The study of games such as chaturanga (a form of chess) which had lost its glory in India, the land of its origin, but had spread worldwide revealed information on the sociological, psychological, anthropological, economic and historical factors of life, she said.

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