Let’s Play!
Play is the perfect vehicle for building inclusible communities, and GameTime! is the perfect opportunity for play. We have experienced the remarkable power of play. Let us share what we’ve learned with you!
Can’t wait? Find simple starter games in our FREE DOWNLOADS.
Our newest addition is a card game you can play in person or with your friends and family online! It’s called DIS-CARD. Try out game level I (of III) in the Free Downloads.
So grab some partners and say, “Let’s play!”
Services Offered
The GameTime! Project
In this 4-week session, we’ll meet twice a week for an hour of play and exploration.
Together, we’ll explore the skills and interests of each participant. We’ll then provide your designated leader with specific tools and information to carry on your own inclusible GameTime!
Quick Start GameTime!
With Quick Start GameTime! we can quickly help get you started or enhance what you’re already doing.
We’ll meet once a week for 3 weeks, and provide suggestions for support techniques, game modifications, and the best types of activities for your players. Let’s start playing!
Workshops
Our current workshop topics are:
Including Individuals with Autism in Games and Play
Simple Games and Visual Supports to Make, Take, and Use!
Hourly Consult
We provide group and individual consultations and collaboration to meet your specific needs.
In working with differently-able individuals, we follow our Four Guiding Principals of LEARN, CREATE, SUPPORT, and RESPECT (see below).
We work with individuals, families, schools, agencies, and organizations and have been approved as a provider for individual OPWDD Self-Direction participants.
Fees for Services:
The GameTime! Project: $600 ~ Quick Start GameTime!: $250 ~ Workshops: Please contact us ~ Hourly Consult: $80 per hour
We don’t want fees to be exclusionary. Please contact us to discuss options, including grant partnerships.
Building Personal Connections through Play
In this presentation, Diane Guendel, Inclusible’s founder, shares the benefits of play and how it can be used to support students with IDD and other disabilities.
You can download the slides from this presentation by going to our free downloads page!
Our Four Guiding Principles
How We Support Individuals in Inclusible Communities
Learn
Our first step is to learn about the individual through what they can show or tell us of their skills, interests, dislikes, etc. If they are not able to effectively communicate this, those who know them best can give us relevant information and share any goals the individuals may have.
Support
We provide support early and generously so individuals can engage in new experiences more comfortably. We work to foster a sense of “I can do this!”. We use visual supports, error-less learning, modeling, prompting, hand-over-hand, positive reinforcement, or whatever it takes. It’s important to stay in the moment with our individuals and ask ourselves what’s needed now to help them succeed.
Create
Whether it’s play, work, or activities of daily living, we create opportunities for individuals of all ability levels to engage and succeed. We start from where they are and find the next steps for them. Using the cycle of create, try out, assess, and modify, we keep at it until we find what’s right for each individual.
Respect
We need to know what’s important to the individuals we serve, and respect their wishes, both in the moment and in the longer term. There is a big difference between a person’s desire for the momentary comfort of repetitive behaviors or preoccupations, and an isolated life comprised solely of these activities. By creating opportunities and offering choices, we are supporting self-determination. We understand it is essential to always treat our special needs community members with the respect and dignity they deserve and we all crave.