Designed for young children to build communication skills, while exploring, learning, and connecting in a naturalistic and fun way. Therapy can address social skills/pragmatics such as turn taking, reciprocation, topic maintenance, joint attention, etc.
Play skills can target various levels, depending on a child’s area of difficulty. This may include parallel play, symbolic play (pretending to use a banana as a phone), and role playing (ex: doctor/patient).
Receptive and expressive language skills can be incorporated by addressing vocabulary, formulating sentences or increasing utterance length, asking and understanding different questions, following directions, concepts, and/or grammar.
Play Skills
Pragmatics is how we use language in social situations, knowing what to say, how to say it, and when to say it. It can include turn taking, staying on topic, understanding body language and facial expressions, knowing how to start/continue/end a conversation, and understanding sarcasm/jokes. Pragmatics is more than just words. It is about using language appropriately to connect and communicate with others.
