Miami-Dade: Lego Club Social Group in Miami for Ages 3 to 19 years old!

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JOIN OUR LEGO CLUB

Ages 3 to 19 years old

We build and celebrate the ABILITY in all people!!!

Everyone is welcome, no matter the disABILITY!!!

Groups of ages 4 to 6 meet on Tuesdays at 5:30pm

Groups of ages 7 to 19 meet on Wednesdays at 5:30pm

351 Minorca Ave. Coral Gables Fl 33134

For more information call (305)461-8229

The Lego Club is a great opportunity for individuals to " hang out " and

interact with their peers!

How being part of the club can benefit an individual?

& #159; -Helps develop verbal and non-verbal communication.

& #159; -Helps with attention and task focus

& #159; -Effective way to expose an individual to problem-solving

-Emphasis on sharing and turn-taking

& #159; -Reduce behavioral issues.

& #159; -Increase social skills

Lego therapy is not simply gathering children together and providing them with

Legos. Lego therapy is ideally conducted in a fairly structured environment, in

which the children have clearly assigned roles, and rules are formulated to

dictate

appropriate behavioral conduct. For example, if there were three children in the

Lego therapy session, then one of the children could be the Engineer, who looks

at the illustrated guide to building the Lego set, and is responsible for

letting the

other peers know what they are building and how to build it. Another child could

be the supplier, who has all of the necessary parts to assemble the project, and

is responsible for supplying the builder with the correct pieces. The third

child could be the builder, who is

responsible for taking the individual pieces from the supplier, and putting the

pieces together to form the project.

During the Lego therapy sessions, social conventions can be directly instructed

or prompted, based on the

needs of the peers. For example, if two peers are physically fighting over a

Lego piece, the clinicians can

redirect the peers to use language, negotiation, and compromise to settle their

dispute.

Research studies have found Lego therapy to be an effective means of developing

" verbal and non-verbal

communication, joint attention and task focus, collaborative problem-solving,

sharing and turn-taking " (Legoff

and Sherman, 2006). In a 2008 study, children who participated in Lego Therapy

demonstrated increased

learning and generalization of social skills and reduction of behavioral

concerns in comparison to a control

group who did not receive intervention (Owens, Granader, and Humphrey).