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Recently we had a session with one of our clients and we wanted to help him to get involved in play. While he has challenges in imaginative thinking, attention, and focusing on the big picture...we had to work also address the NOW issue of the playground. So we simulated playground behavior at the clinic to give him practice practice practice in joining in on play. The challenge he had was pairing his mental interest with his body movement to get involved. We needed to develop the nonverbal pattern on play and add words related to play like This is fun, What are you guys doing later. First trial, we provided max prompting to get involved. Prompting without talking involved actually helping him walk in play and hand over hand getting his body to join the basketball game in session. He didn't have confidence to join. Not that he didn't have skills to play. This child just didn't know how to put it all together!
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