Game Therapy
Play is a way that develops the child's learning, friendship, competition, and order-building skills, where learning becomes permanent, and where the child can express herself.
Play is the child's most natural learning path and development support tool.
However, the development of play skills is poor in most children with autism.
Because the game basically requires skills such as imitation, eye contact, joint attention, need for interaction.
The fact that these skills do not develop in the majority of children with autism leads to the development of play skills. Children with autism, who cannot fill their time by playing games or other meaningful actions, may turn to stereotypical movements and obsessions.
The development of play skills is of great importance in order for the child to interact with his peers, to prepare for school and life with play skills. This is only possible with the right individual support and family education.
The development of game skills, the child; Being in interaction at kindergarten, school and other social environments, producing solutions to problems, spending productive time with himself and his family outside of education, learning to learn, supports the development of social skills. For this reason, play skills in children with autism and infants with autism risk should be supported by individual and group games.
At Anka, play therapy practices are supported by specialist trainings and individual play therapy classes tailored to the needs of the child. In order to generalize the game skills learned in individual lessons to appropriate environments, skills such as group play and generalization are supported in the game groups created, and game skills that allow the child to express himself and spend productive time are developed.
