How do games help with turn-taking and shared play?

Playing with another person asks a lot at once: wait, watch, respond, and cope with losing. A game makes those demands visible and finite, because the rules say whose turn it is rather than a child having to guess.

Speech pathologists and teachers use structured games to practise joint attention — sharing focus on the same thing at the same time — in a setting with a clear end point. The pressure sits on the board or the ball, not on the conversation.

This collection mixes table games like Pictionary and ten-in-one wooden sets with active ones: Floor is Lava, a portable basketball hoop, a badminton net and a co-ordination ankle strap for two. Families often start with games short enough to finish. Support workers pick the outdoor sets for sessions where sitting down was never going to happen.

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