LEGO THERAPY WORKSHOP
Lego therapy (Legoff, 2004) is a motivating way of developing children’s social communication skills. Adults watch quietly and give the children time to communicate, identify communication breakdowns and discover how to repair them themselves before providing any guidance. This system is also an effective way of developing children’s understanding of their own and other’s thoughts and feelings. It is effective for children with a range of communication difficulties, including those with:
- Social communication difficulties, ASD or High Functioning Autism
- Receptive and/or expressive language difficulties
- Speech intelligibility difficulties
Lego therapy requires 3 participants. Each child is allocated a specific role, which changes each session:
- Engineer – who looks at the instructions, describes the Lego pieces required and how to construct the model
- Supplier – who listens to the Engineer’s descriptions and finds the brick(s) in the tray
- Builder – who listens to the Engineer’s instructions and builds the model
The course aims to enable teaching staff to:
- Identify suitable children to include in a Lego Therapy group
- Recognise a range of breakdowns in communication
- Support children to repair the conversational breakdowns independently
The workshop, which lasts for 2 hours, can be delivered to up to 30 members of staff on site within the educational setting in a staff meeting, twilight training session or inset day.
Bucks & Berks SLT Consultancy delivers a range of 2-hour training sessions for up to 30 members of staff in education settings to enable them to support children’s speech, language and social communication effectively during the school day:
- Shaping Children’s Language in the Classroom – based on Shape Coding by Susan Ebbels®
- Lego Therapy workshop
- Developing Theory of Mind, ToM, in children
- Naturalistic speech sound development
(see options for schools link)
A 6-hour Part 1 Shape Coding by Susan Ebbels® course for up to 30 participants at any location in England.
Contact Glynis Haines to arrange a workshop in your setting