LEGO® Therapy Group Skill Building Club for Children Ages 7-11
A Four Day Social Skill Building Club
July 26-29, 2021
4:00-5:30
Teams of three compete with one another to complete a common building challenge using LEGO® bricks. Each member of the team must work together contributing, communicating, and listening to each other. This helps them to develop communication skills, problem solving skills, in addition to sharing both the toy bricks and the responsibility of working together to complete the projects, clean up, and return the bricks to their proper storage spot.
Through communication this type of therapy serves to develop vocabulary, understanding of how to effectively communicate, and rule following.
LEGO® Bricks provided.
No previous building experience required.
Join us for a 4-day LEGO® Club
for a skill building challenge
Playing with LEGO® in a therapy setting promotes social interaction, turn-taking skills, sharing, collaborative problem-solving and the learning of concepts. It can be used to target goals around social skills, language and motor skills. By using a commonly adored tool like LEGO® it capitalizes on its existing motivation and supports self-esteem by allowing the participants to demonstrate their skills in a social situation. It also sets up a positive opportunity for guided social problem-solving to help develop social skills that can then be used in other situations.
Children with autism sometimes find it challenging to understand what is expected of them in a social situation, particularly within unstructured play activities. LEGO®-Based Therapy provides a highly structured environment where everyone plays a specific role within the group. This can help children with anxiety feel calm and relaxed as they are doing something that they enjoy and know precisely what to expect and what is expected of them.
What happens at lego® clubs?
During a LEGO® Club session, teams of three (of similar ages and abilities) work together to build a LEGO® model following instructions.
Each child takes on one of three specific roles:
The Engineer oversees reading and relaying the instructions. The Engineer must tell the Supplier what pieces to retrieve and tell the Builder how to build the model.
The Supplier oversees finding the correct LEGO pieces. The Supplier must listen to the Engineer and figure out what piece to retrieve, and then given these pieces to the Builder.
The Builder oversees physically building the model. The Builder must listen to instructions provided by the Engineer and receive the pieces that are retrieved by the Supplier.
The therapist takes on the role as the Foreman, who makes sure everyone is doing what they need to do. The Foreman provides help to other roles when needed and looks out for social challenges that may need problem-solving by the group.
Using this format provides each child has the opportunity to practice and develop a wide range of skills, including language skills (in both giving and receiving instructions) turn-taking, negotiating, sharing and collaborative social problem-solving. It also encourages children to reflect on their own actions and skills as well as give constructive feedback to their peers.
Join Certified lego® nerd and registered play therapist
Cheryl Childers LISW-CP, RPT
for fun LEGO® challenges that support the development of a wide range of social skills, team work while also building endless fun and friendships.
Monday July 26 - Thursday July 29 (4:00pm-5:30pm)
$175
Spaces are limited
In case you can’t make this awesome group — Join us in the fall for an 8 week LEGO® skill building group. Details to come.
