The Clubhouse is the Behavioral Intervention Association's (http://www.bia4autism.org) after-school program. Once a week, children between the ages of 5 and 12, who have communication and social challenges, meet and engage in fun activities to practice different social skills. The Explorers focus on skills such as staying with the group, greetings, turn taking, participating independently in activities, and brief exchanges with peers. The Adventurers focus on skills such as initiating and maintaining conversations, perspective taking, and negotiating with peers.
The Adventurers: Transportation Memory (On the Go!)
Memory “Transportation”: We had fun playing this turn-taking
game and tried to find as many pairs as possible. Focus and flexing our
memory muscles were required. Of course, the memory cards showed
different modes of transportation.
Cooperative Race “The Rope Train”: We worked in teams. We held on to a jump rope with one hand and then started to move together as a group and pretended to be a train. We were not allowed to let go of the rope while we were running. Like our game with the hula hoops from last week, this required lots of cooperation and teamwork. After each completed turn, the player in front moved to the back and a different player took over the position of the driver.
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