What is a Learning Playgroup?
A learning playgroup is designed to maximize a child’s social and language potential within a peer group setting using motivating activities to encourage children to interact with one another. The following motivating activities are the fundamental elements necessary to guide children with social and language difficulties. Each class will integrate sensory activities to decrease tactile defensiveness, increase social communication skills using visual cues, and incorporate hands on play activities to encourage appropriate peer interactions.
Ready, Set, Play! playgroups are designed to enhance the following areas:
- Eye contact- initiating, sustaining, maintaining
- Respond to name
- Attending skills
- Follow directions
- Joint attention
- Increase affect
- Improve frustration tolerance
- Cope with minor changes in routines/transitions
- Use social language functionally and appropriately
- Initiate and participating in play or conversation
- Share and Turn taking
- Read social cues, facial expressions and body language