Lego Therapy - developing social and communication skills - Spring 2018 | Octavo Partnership

Course Date

26 Apr 2018 13:30 - 16:30

Overview

LEGO Therapy can be used with a range of children to develop social and communication skills. LEGO Therapy involves building LEGO models in small groups or pairs where the children take on different roles and work together. The children are encouraged to practice turn taking, sharing, joint problem solving and general social communication skills. Children would take on one of the following roles;

Architect – this child has the set of directions and initially has to request the bricks required from the supplier and then direct the builder to make the finished product.

Supplier – has the LEGO bricks and supplies the engineer with the required items on request.

Builder – is given the set of bricks and follows the instructions of the engineer in order to create the product.

LEGO Therapy sessions last for between 45 minutes and 1 hour .

Description

This session willl be run by Hannah Cole, a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
To see Hannah talking about LEGO therapy please go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-tS6zIr50U

Key outcomes: Know how to successfully run LEGO Therapy groups in your school and gain practical ideas to ensure the success.

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