Teaching 6 children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Dear our Donors,

We would like to send you our Special Thank You for your generosity and kindness. You have supported our program, and children and their parents appreciate your help.

Creating a Sensory Area is our new goal, and we know how messy-sensory play is important for our children with autism spectrum disorder. This playtime is essential for child's brain and early learning. As therapists we know that sensory play helps child to develop and improve fine-motor skills, eye-hand coordination, concentration, and adaptive skills. During messy-sensory play such as kinetic play activity, water games, playdough activity, water beads activity, and glue collages our children have a chance to develop their experience in cooperative play and pretend play. It is a valuable experience to use all senses to discover and explore surroundings. Messy-sensory game is fun, and relaxed activity.

Penndco Board of Directors, volunteers, parents and donors support our project. We are happy to create our new sensory station for children.

Thank you so much for all ideas and help.

Sincerely,

Tetyana Varenychenko, M.Ed.

Dear our Donors,

We greatly appreciate your kindness and support to our children and their families. We know how important to have a community resources for families who have children with autism spectrum disorder or social communication difficulties. Looking around us at the difference your financial support has made to our organization, we know that to be true.

The ability to play with other children can take a long time to develop and requires patience, persistence, and new toys, tools, and Social Skills Library that includes visual helpers such as social skills cards, posters, and albums. Your financial support helps us to organize structured and non-structured playtime, cooperative playtime, playing and learning time together, playtime with a partner by using favorite toys, tools, books, and sensory materials.

A successful social skills playtime is our valuable goal. David's mother shared that David has trouble understanding and talking and difficulties to follow one step directions. We understand mother's worries because all these components are very important for nice social skills activities. Teaching parents to use Hanen strategies during social skills playtime is our way to help children to choose the right toys and activities, to find the right friends, and to help children with sharing the toys. Teaching children how to play and what to say is our main step during cooperative play. For example, Jake wants to join in but does not know how. Using right toys, tools, and strategies is helping our children to make friends at different stages of communication.

Again and again we would like to send to all our supporters our special Thank You! Thank you for the new books, games, cards and shelves that our children can use during their social skills activities.