Legos helping kids with autism to build social skills

Legos® is helping children with autism to learn social skills! read the article at the Huffington Post link below.

My (Danny Pettry) focus as a practitioner is providing services for children with abuse-reactive/ trauma needs. However, from time to time I’ve provided services for children with (usually higher functioning) Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Of course, social skills trianing can benefit many children.

REad the article here: 

http://snip.ly/ro9ew#http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/lego-based-therapy-children-with-autism-social-skills_uk_5721efb9e4b06bf544e15ddf

Legos now has wheelchairs!

Chris Worth is an artist and a good-friend of mine. I met him while completing my undergraduate degree in Therapeutic Recreation at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia in the earl 2000s. 

Chris posted a really neat link today by the Guardian, which announced the Lego now has new mini-figure that includes wheelchair. 

I personally believe this is a good thing to help promote awareness of people with different types of abilities and the use wheelchairs. 

Read about it here:

http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/jan/27/lego-unveils-disabled-minifigure-promobricks-nuremberg-toy-fair