EVENT DETAILS:
Flexible Play - Kitchener - BSS Social Skills Group
In the Flexible Play group, our experienced Instructor Therapists will create a safe and fun environment where children will learn to play pretend with others through the support of play scripts. Children will learn to role-play and to take turns playing different roles. Children will learn to be “flexible” with friends, compromise, and continue to play along as friends take the lead in their own role. Children will learn how to handle when a friend plays in a way that was not expected. Using flexible thinking strategies, they will generate new ways to solve problems, adapt to changes in play and adjust to the unexpected. Families
will receive a summary of recommendations outlining the strategies developed
through each week of group to continue to apply your learning in other settings.
By registering for this group, you are committing to attending all session
dates.
To improve social and play skills through:
- Behaviour Skills
Training on topics (instruction, modelling, rehearsal, feedback)
- Prompting and
reinforcement to teach priority goals each session
- Data collection to assess acquisition of
priority goals
Group Goals:
- Inviting others
to play and accepting invitations to join play
- Work together to
choose activities, compromise and taking turns
- Following a play
script to support with taking on roles within the pretend play activity
- Learning about
being fair, winning and losing, coping strategies and good friend behavior
- Solving problems
that come up in play situations
Dates: Thursday evenings 4:30-6:30 for 10 weeks from January 26th to March 30th, 2023.