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Archive for Autism – Page 2

Bubble Tag

Posted by Gary Yorke 
· February 20, 2014 
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Here’s another great intervention idea submitted by reader Emily Clifton, LISW. Ms. Clifton earned a gift certificate to childtherapytoys.com for her submission. Learn how you can do the same!

I teach a group for children with autism and impulse control issues.The children were having trouble with boundaries with one another and out curtains and blinds.  This game helped a lot.You can usually play 3-4 rounds in about 5 minutes, so it’s also a good way to get out extra energy if students become restless during activities that require more focus, and it can provide something for kids to do if your setting up a new activity.

Purpose: To help set physical boundaries in group sessions.

Rules: First talk about how everyone has different sized personal bubbles and then ask them to practice different sizes of bubbles.Say that during the game, all the players will be bubbles, and can choose how big their personal bubbles will be during the game.Then talk about real bubbles, explaining that real bubbles pop if they accidentally rub up against anything, such as a wall or other people, therefore if the students touch anything, they have to pop and fall onto the ground.Also, there are 1-2 students or teachers in the room that are “needles.”If they say pop around the student’s personal bubbles, that student is popped.   The last one or two people standing get to be the new needles. 

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Categories : Autism, Intervention Ideas, Play Therapy Games, Reader Submissions

Bop Bags and Aggression Toys

Posted by Gary Yorke 
· April 17, 2008 
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There has been a decline in the use of bop bags in play therapy.  The concern is that bop bags simply provide an opportunity to rehearse aggression, and serve to support further aggressive behavior.  I have discontinued the use of bop bags in my play sessions due to the kinds of responses that I would get from clients. They would wildly attack the bop bag and seemed to perseverate on that kind of behavior week after week.  I treat a large number of neurologically impaired children (bipolar, Asperger’s, PDD) who are also impulsively aggressive, and seem poorly motivated by the consequences of their behavior.  The focus in therapy has turned to restraining anger, restraining expressions of aggression, and controlling behavior, rather than venting and cathecting.  However, I have not eliminated all aggression toys. I still have guns, including dart guns.  It appears that these toys do not elicit as out-of -control behaviors as the bop bag.  When these neurologically impaired children used the bop bag, it appeared to be impulsive and out-of-control aggression, as opposed to symbolic or purposeful play.  I would be interested in hearing what other providers are experiencing and how they are using aggression toys.

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Categories : Anger, Asperger's, Autism, Behavior, Bipolar Disorder, Intervention Ideas, Play Therapy Toys
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