About
Approach
Skill Builders Club is a social skills club, where club members take part in a social skill group that combines LEGO®-Based Therapy, Applied Behavior Analysis, and Socioemotional Learning. It is a social skills program based around building LEGO® models collaboratively in groups. The goal of the group is to assist club members as they grow their social interaction skills in a fun and motivating setting. Skill Builders Club is unique in the way that it blends LEGO®-Based Therapy and Applied Behavior Analysis with a project-oriented focus on building socioemotional skills. Skill Builders Club provides facilitators with a low-planning time, highly effective program to build social skills amongst all students.
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Materials
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Skill Builders Club has a hard-copy manual to support day to day implementation of club meetings, with an option to join an online portal for access to printables to support implementation. The portal community provides facilitators with lesson plans, unit ideas, implementation printables, data sheets, and more! Each hard-copy manual comes with a free 3-month subscription to the portal.
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What is Skill Builders Club?
Concept
Skill Builders Club meetings are usually 45 minutes to one-hour long. In the session club members create LEGO® models in groups of 2 or 3, with an adult facilitator. Each meeting, club members take on serving different roles within the group. One student finds the bricks (the ‘supplier’), another has the instructions (the ‘engineer’) and a third club member puts the model together (the ‘builder’).
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Tools and instructions for data collection, reinforcement systems, and aligned IEP goals are provided so facilitators can easily implement club meetings to assist club members in meeting their goals.
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Benefits
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Skill Builders Club provides children several benefits, including:
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Engages and motivates children to interact socially
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Uses children's natural interests to build communication, plan, and social skills
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Help socially isolated children feel part of a group
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Develops children's social identify by providing a common purpose and shared interest
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Easily facilitated by adults with little prep work
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IEP goal bank provided
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*LEGO®-Based Therapy and Skill Builders Club are not affiliated with the LEGO® Group.
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Who We Are
The Team
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Dr. Clara S. Kenny, BCBA, LBA is the Founder and Clinical Director of Behavior Backup® LLC., started Skill Builders Club to combine the social skills focus of LEGO®-Based Therapy with the data-driven analysis of Applied Behavior Analysis into a robust educational program that is fun, easy to implement, and delivers results that endure for children, parents, and teachers. Dr. Kenny received her doctorate from Johns Hopkins University, focusing her studies on training parents and teachers on challenging behavior and applied behavior analysis, and she has trained at Cambridge University directly with members of the LEGO®-based therapy research team.
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Kelsey Skjei, MA Ed
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Information coming soon!
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Materials
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The Implementation Toolkit gives practitioners "everything but the bricks" to run their own Skill Builders Club group with straightforward easy-to-implement materials.
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Materials
Manual
This Tool-Kit provides you with everything you will need to facilitate a Skill Builders Club Meeting but the LEGO® bricks. We have included instructions, information on reinforcement strategies, tips and tricks, IEP goals, and the “First 15 days of Skill Builders Club” lesson plans.
Online Portal
This portal is your go to for downloadable data sheets, visuals, and reproducible materials. The portal is updated continuously with unit plans, building “challenges”, and supplemental materials to continue the growth of your Skill Builders Club. Every manual purchase comes with a 3-month free subscription to the online portal.
Portal coming soon!
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Updated Implementation Toolkit coming in early 2023!
Training
Overview
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Bring the Skill Builders Club Team to your group or organization to train practitioners on implementation, data collection, and behavior management for successful application of Skill Builders Club, which combines the social interaction of LEGO®-Based Therapy with the data-driven insights of Applied Behavior Analysis. This fun and engaging training is sure to hook staff onto the wonderful potential and ease-of-use of this innovative social skills team collaboration activity.
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Professional Development
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The Skill Builders Club Team has significant experience designing and delivering teacher professional development training sessions, and will develop an engaging curriculum tailored specifically to your school's needs and student population. The training is designed to provide actionable value-added Skill Builders Club implementation content that will be startlingly useful to students, parents, and teachers alike.
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*Prices based on number of participants. All participants will receive an Skill Builders Club Implementation Toolkitand 3-month access to the portal as part of the training.