SCAEP

 Social Communication as Experiential Play 

Originally developed in educational settings, SCAEP has widespread applicability.

Utilise insights from neuroscience, communication and personal construct psychology to improve team communication and build creative problem solving abilities in your organisation.

This page provides details of the unique SCAEP approach.

SUSTAINING SOCIAL CONNECTEDNESS

MAKING SENSE OF DIFFERENCE

ALWAYS BELONGING, NEVER FAILING

ADAPTIVITY, INFERENCE & ANTICIPATION

Social Communication as Experiential Play is an integrative transdisciplinary framework for social communication intervention, developed in collaboration with neurodivergent young people, for neurodivergent young people.

  • 24 sessions (2 school terms)
  • 12 sessions for families & young adults
  • Bespoke team workshops

Social communication as experiential play

SCAEP’s system of eight constructive domains and four functional models are considered and explored directly through the medium of BaseGames, drawn from Hughes and Melville (2002) 16 Types of Play, including traditional playground games. This play typology is not intended to be a catalogue of games, but rather expressly situates social cognition in a wider range of interactional environments than GSSIs traditionally have. To ensure accessibility, the SCAEP framework incorporates systems of learning, language and perceptual support drawn from Speech and Language and Occupational Therapy. However, the most important aspect of play in SCAEP is its spontaneous evolution by the group. The BaseGame is always just that – a starting point. The true purpose is to co-create new and changing contexts from that and to keep the game going and developing until it reaches a mutually agreed ending:
“Anything can happen in SCAEP and generally does, but somehow it is still all about SCAEP” (T, 2011)

Sandy M. Burbach 


   
             
Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
HCPC  MRCSLT


sandyburbach@gmail.com
“Enysdale” Obridge Lane, Taunton, Somerset, TA2 7QA UK
 

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