101 Games and Activities for Children With Autism, Asperger's and Sensory Processing Disorders by Tara Delaney

Author:Tara Delaney [Delaney, Tara]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Published: 2009-05-30T04:00:00+00:00

How (Including Peers)

Choose a caller to be the person in charge of saying “Green light” and “Red light” and holding up the paper.

Line up all the participants 10 to 20 feet from the caller.

When the caller says, “Green light,” everyone hops toward the caller until he says, “Red light.” At “Red light,” the participants must stop moving.

The person who maneuvers closest to the caller gets to be the caller in the next round.

Alternative: This game can be done by crawling or hopping for younger children. This game can also be done outside using tricycles.

Note: I and a speech therapist worked with three boys to get them “ready” for this activity. First we made sure each boy understood the difference between red and green and could identify the colors from other colors. Then we taught each boy the stop/go concept associated with red and green by physically motoring him through the action. One of us held the boy’s hand while the other held up the green colored paper and yelled “Go!” The one who continued to hold the boy’s hand reiterated “Go!” and moved with him until the red (stop) sign was held up. Then we taught the concept again, this time saying “Red light!” and “Green light!”

We first tried the game without the Hippity Hop balls, but two of the boys had a hard time stopping from running, even when the red light was shown. So we introduced the Hippity Hop balls, and we noticed that all three boys paid increased attention to the caller and were better able to control their bodies. This is probably due to the proprioceptive input received by bouncing on the Hippity Hop balls. We filmed the activity, and it was so fun to watch all three of these five-year-old boys with autism engaged to the point of belly laughing.

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