Can you imag­ine your child

• Tak­ing turns with­out tantrums?
• Join­ing in a game?
• Hav­ing a quiet con­ver­sa­tion with a friend?

Mak­ing friends isn’t always child’s play. If your child with autism or another behav­ioral dis­abil­ity strug­gles with fol­low­ing rules, tak­ing turns, or just build­ing friend­ships, Play­Date can help.

What is PlayDate?

Play­Date is a social skills group designed to help chil­dren who strug­gle with social inter­ac­tion because of autism or another behav­ioral disability.

At Play­Date, our goal is to help every child acquire the skills to work and play with oth­ers, build friend­ships, and have fun. We teach:

• Peer Play
• Pretend/​Dramatic Play
• Con­ver­sa­tion Skills
• Social Ref­er­enc­ing Skills
• Cop­ing Skills
• Basics of Var­i­ous Sports

To your child, Play­Date feels like play time. Our stu­dents play games, sing songs, enjoy out­ings to the zoo, the park, or the movies — in short, they share the expe­ri­ences that build friend­ships. At the same time, our trained staff is using proven tech­niques to ease your child into more com­fort­able social inter­ac­tions. As with any­thing else, chil­dren learn social skills by being given ample oppor­tu­nity to prac­tice them, both with oth­ers who have sim­i­lar dis­abil­i­ties and with typ­i­cally devel­op­ing same-​age peers.

Play­Date groups are cre­ated to meet the needs of every child, includ­ing yours. Our stu­dents have a range of diag­noses or no diag­no­sis at all. The only cri­te­ria for inclu­sion is your child’s poten­tial to ben­e­fit from the Play­Date experience.