Benefits of the PLAY Project

Home Benefits of the PLAY Project

Empowering families and caregivers to engage with their children is the key to PLAY Project.

It is effective and families form stronger connections. The PLAY Project has lasting value to children with autism, families, schools and communities.

“It’s something we do all the time automatically. It doesn’t take up more time – It’s just how you interact with your child.” – Meghan Griesemer

Benefits for the Child:

  • PLAY Project can begin right away to affect emotional development and social interaction skills during critical windows of development.
  • Children gain important skills and can have the ability to do better in school and be more emotionally secure.
  • PLAY Project can positively change the trajectory for children with autism with benefits that last a lifetime.

“I can give a clear example of my two children – one who got early intervention and one did not. There’s a clear distinction. I very firmly believe the PLAY Project helped my youngest get to where he is now.” – Kaitlin Peterman

  • PLAY is conducted in a child’s natural environment, which is proven to be where young children learn best – the place where they are most familiar, with the people they know and love, doing activities that are meaningful for them and their family.
  • The PLAY Project helps parents and children connect, strengthening their relationship.
  • When parents and children are connected and engaged, the PLAY interventions are fun! Designed to create bonds, families share joy and smiles.

“We just have so much fun. We can get bogged down in the process and what percent and what level…but at the end of the day, he’s laughing, I’m laughing. We’re having a good time.” – Meghan Griesemer

Benefits for Families:

  • PLAY Project empowers families by enabling them to become a partner in their child’s development.
  • PLAY Project can improve stress and depression for parents or caregivers.

“I felt so inept that I couldn’t help my child. Throughout the course of [the PLAY Project], I learned that I can help my child.
I am actually the best person to help my child.”
 – Kaitlin Peterman

  • The program helps parents respond to their child’s behavior in ways that are effective. Overall, the parent-child relationship improves when intervening early with PLAY.
  • Families are empowered, preparing them for a lifetime of advocacy.
  • PLAY intervention is affordable.

Benefits for the Community:

  • PLAY Project gives communities an evidence-based autism intervention to meet the growing demand for early intervention services for children diagnosed with ASD.
  • PLAY Project empowers families and prepares children to function more effectively in a school setting.
  • PLAY Project can be a more cost and time effective treatment over time, if it begins in the early stages of a child’s development.

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