About The PLAY Project™
The PLAY Project : Evidence-based, intensive, autism early intervention
Research shows that The PLAY Project leads to improved relationships between parents and their child who has autism. As a result, the child improves in their social and functional development.
A certified PLAY Project Consultant partners with families to build trust, promote family confidence and competence, and strengthen family-child relationships. PLAY sessions are typically 2-3 hours long, and take place in a family’s home once a month.
During each visit, the PLAY Consultant listens to updates from the family, answers questions, coaches the family, and models techniques and activities. Consultants also collect 10-15 minutes of video for which they provide written feedback that is sent to the family for review between visits.
Ongoing reassessments make sure the interventions are on point with the child’s needs (see 7 Circle of PLAY below).
The PLAY Project empowers parents, and other caregivers to engage the hard-to-engage child with autism. PLAY methods empower parents to build their skills and support their child with autism through the stages of development.
The intensive intervention is fun and developmentally appropriate, making it easily applicable to a family’s daily activities.
The PLAY Project trains professionals to help parents. Our rigorous certification program has been shown by research to work.
Hundreds of professionals—including speech/language pathologists, occupational therapists, early interventionists, pre/school teachers, social workers, psychologists, and doctors—have successfully learned The PLAY Project’s practical and effective approach to helping families who have a young child with autism.
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A 2015 pilot study of the Teaching PLAY program for preschools and kindergarten showed that teachers and school staff learned to implement PLAY Project methods in the classroom. Learn about Teaching PLAY
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Has proved that PLAY Project parents consistently learned the model and their children made gains in social interaction and decreased their autism severity much more than children who didn’t get The PLAY Project’s intervention.
The 4 principles of The PLAY Project are:
Through home or office visits, PLAY Consultants help families learn The 7 Circles of The PLAY Project.
“Our step-by-step program empowers families.”