Play & Group Therapy
Objectives for teaching in a small group may include:
- Increasing peer interaction
- Turn taking and waiting appropriately
- Increased discriminative listening and responding skills
- Following novel 1- and 2-step directions
- Naturalistic learning from imitation or observation of peers
- Peer prompting
- Connectedness with others
- Improved self-esteem
- Group cooperation
- Classroom routines
- Asking Who, What, Why, Where and When questions
- Completing tasks with multiple steps eg. Art projects
- Appropriate toy play or thematic play
Our groups are formed based on age and level. We work from the early stages of awareness of others to higher levels involving reciprocal communication, sharing, turn taking and how to approach an be appropriate with peers.
Group activities are chosen using toys, activities and play stations that replicate play in the natural world. We move children from the ABLLs program/ ABA where communication is prompted and staged to a more open ended communicative process.