The PLAY Project
What is The PLAY Project?
The PLAY Project is an autism early intervention program. Founded by Dr. Richard Solomon MD, The PLAY Project is evidence-based and designed to be parent implemented.
During the course of your child’s time in the program, you will learn PLAY methods to help you captivate your child’s hard-to-get attention.
You can learn more about The PLAY Project principles on their website.
How does PLAY Project work?
The PLAY Project is a program that trains caregiver to provide relationship-based intensive and individualized treatment to a child. PLAY Consultants train parents and caregivers in methods and techniques of the PLAY Project to help their child through meaningful play activities and daily routines. With parents and caregivers becoming implementers of the methods, this provides the child with nearly 20 hours of intervention per week.
PLAY Consultants train parents and caregivers by providing in home intervention in 2-3 hour treatment sessions, typically once per month. During these sessions, the PLAY Consultant will work with your family to help you build confidence in the methods and learn to interact with your child using PLAY techniques. Additionally, the PLAY Consultant will take a 15 minute video to provide you with feedback on the session and for you to review between monthly appointments.
Learn more about the principles of The PLAY Project.
TelePLAY with West Words Speech Therapy
West Words now offers The Play Project via TelePLAY. TelePLAY allows you to reap the benefits of The PLAY Project intervention via virtual home visits on a HIPAA secure video conferencing platform. Additionally, receiving intervention via TelePLAY allows for flexibility of scheduling as there is no travel time involved for you or your consultant in training. Click here to view additional information on TelePLAY.
Currently, Chelsey West CCC-SLP (owner of West Words) provides TelePLAY services as a Certified PLAY Project Consultant in-training. In addition to receiving PLAY project services, she will provide language therapy to help your child learn to communicate. As a Consultant in-training, Chelsey has completed all PLAY Project coursework to learn PLAY principles and techniques and is completing her supervision period under a Certified PLAY Consultant.
During this time, TelePLAY services are being offered at a discounted rate to account for the supervision period. TelePLAY is available for those in Colorado, Nebraska, and California at this time. If you are interested in TelePLAY services, please fill out and submit the contact form below.
