A goblin horde approaches your part of adventurers. Roll for attack!

If the above statement brings back positive memories of your friends, you’re probably a fan of games. If not, you may either a) hate games as much as Jackie or b) benefit from research on improving turn-taking and game-playing abilities. Don’t worry, everyone can learn the basics of playing a game and in this week’s episode, we break out the research instruction manual on just how to support children with a variety of disabilities to do just that. It’s like rolling a natural 20.

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Turn Taking

Oppenheim-Leaf, M.L., Leaf, J.B., & Call, N.C. (2012). Teaching board games to two children with an autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 24, 247-358. doi: 10.1007/s10882-012-9274-4

Davis-Temple, J., Jung, S., & Sainato, D.M. (2014). Teaching young children with special needs and their peers to play board games: Effects of a least to most prompting procedure to increase independent performance. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 7, 21-30. doi: 10.1007/s40617-014-0001-8

Barton, E.E., Pokorski, E.A., Sweeney, E.M., Velez, M., Gossett, S., Qiu, J., Flaherty, C., & Domingo, M. (2018). An empirical examination of effective practices for teaching board game play to young children. Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 20, 138-148. doi: 10.1177/1098300717753833

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