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The recent trend in digital games is tightly linked to the natural user interaction technologies that make use of the affordances of sensors like the Microsoft Kinect camera. The Kinect camera detects user's body movements and gestures, which means that the full body becomes the controller. Lately, there is a tremendous interest in developing Kinect educational games. In this paper, we present the innovative Kinems learning games which have been developed for helping children with learning disabilities such as autism, dyspraxia and ADHD improve their skills. The paper contains the outcomes of a recent study, which was to investigate and measure the Kinems learning effectiveness. The research hypotheses were examined through an educational intervention that lasted about one month and was implemented with 11 children with ADHD of 4-8 years old. The study was conducted at the premises of the ADHD …