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As of today, children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are becoming an increasingly common occurrence in our schools and society. Consequently, this increases the need to develop assistive devices for ASD children. This paper shows the development of a system designed to facilitate learning in ASD children. This Arduino- based game is equipped with common components such as touch sensor, MP3 player and LEDs to increase replicability. A research was done based on the Early Intervention module to develop a game that could help improve cognitive skill of ASD children. Early Interventions for children with ASD has proven to be effective in reducing ASD symptoms. With the advancement of technology, a wide range of auto- mated tools are now used to teach children with autism. One of the widely used therapies for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder is Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) training that focuses on improving a wide range of behaviours like communication, adaptive learning skills, social skills and a variety of motor skills. Thus, the objective of this arti- cle is to design and develop a gaming application for autistic children for improving their cognitive skills The cognitive development (in terms of gaming scores) of a child over the time can be stored and analyzed using this application. A light-weighted evaluation study was carried out; and found that the proposed gaming application is usable, e?ective and useful for autistic kids to improve their cognitive skills.