Episode 155 - Turn Taking

IMPORTANT NOTICE: To earn CEUs for listening, you MUST sign up and listen to this episode on our website to get credit. To listen for the fun of learning? Just push play! Email us at [email protected] for further assistance. A goblin horde approaches your part of adventurers. Roll for attack! If the above statement brings back positive memories of your friends, you're probably a fan of games. If not, you may either a) hate games as much as Jackie or b) benefit from research on improving turn-taking and game-playing abilities. Don't worry, everyone can learn the basics of playing a game and in this week's episode, we break out the research instruction manual on just how to support children with a variety of disabilities to do just that. It's like rolling a natural 20. This episode is available for 1.0 LEARNING CEU. Articles discussed this episode: Turn Taking Oppenheim-Leaf, M.L., Leaf, J.B., & Call, N.C. (2012). Teaching board games to two children with an autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 24, 247-358. doi: 10.1007/s10882-012-9274-4 Davis-Temple, J., Jung, S., & Sainato, D.M. (2014). Teaching young children with special needs and their peers to play board games: Effects of a least to most prompting procedure to increase independent performance. Behavior Analysis in Practice, 7, 21-30. doi: 10.1007/s40617-014-0001-8 Barton, E.E., Pokorski, E.A., Sweeney, E.M., Velez, M., Gossett, S., Qiu, J., Flaherty, C., & Domingo, M. (2018). An empirical examination of effective practices for teaching board game play to young children. Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 20, 138-148. doi: 10.1177/1098300717753833