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Wanna Play offers small social groups aimed at children of all ages and abilities, to help develop their interactive social skills, using fun games and activities in both group and one-on-one settings.
About Wanna Play
Providing Social and Behavior Support Since 2001
Our Mission: To help children strengthen their interactive ability, appropriate behavior and social skills.
The Wanna Play Program is a stepping stone program designed to build on itself, and to be accessible to children of any age. The program incorporates learning the social strategies needed to navigate the world into fun interaction.
We begin to move towards these goals in early childhood with the right environment and interactive play. Then, in the elementary age, social development is achieved through concept development and fun games. The program continues forward into middle school with open brainstorming and cool activities.
Objectives
- Use multisensory learning to help children internalize abstract concepts.
- Help children develop a positive approach to social interaction.
- Give children strategies for coping and conflict resolution at home and in school.
- Strengthen the self-concept and self-esteem that teenagers need to be successful.
- Develop the behaviors that are crucial to interact in society in adulthood.
The Importance of Social Development
A child does not need to have a diagnosis in order to have challenges in developing social skills.
The Wanna Play Program was created to build skills for social success for children of all ages and at all stages of social development.
A child with social challenges does not learn the skills necessary for successful interaction by simple observation. More direct instruction on how to socially interact is needed in order for them to learn these abstract skills.
We provide the training to teachers and professionals and instruction to children to encourage success in all areas of social interaction.