'Lego Therapy' May Help Kids With Aspergers

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I'm generally very skeptical of any sort of 'treatment', but this is different and sounds very logical and like it could work well. Interesting.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_a ... 876937.ece

Gee. Who'da thunk that something decades recommended is being acknowledged?
I'm actually starting to get a little sick of these "new" therapy announcments...

I think it's great they're finally learning how to use the aspects of Autism in a positive way, rather than seeing the behaviors as a problem that needs to be fixed. Now when will they decide that Nintendo therapy is a good idea for Aspies?

I agree completely. And I think it's lovely seeing a positive article about autism as well - that quote from the mother at the end is brilliant, and how it says 'the world is what's wrong, not the child'. It's such a breathe of fresh air to see some people making an attempt at understanding how it is we work and using it to help children navigate socialising better at last, and saying that it's not a horrible evil disease that steals your babies.

One of my asperger friend still play with lego. And he is 21 years old, he never left this "ritual". He has to play at least one hour when he's depressed he kind of lives in another word when he does tht and get soo concentrated. He's 22 years old.

Legos were my favorite toys as a kid. It's funny, but I still enjoy "building worlds" in the form of video games.

I loved it till it all went to those 'sets' with instructions... I hate those, it was way better to just make your own stuff up instead of being told how to make things.

That'll be perfect for when I will be a play therapist. course, I'll play with them anyways.

I built ones with instructions, but I would ALWAYS take them apart later and build my own thing with them.

Hey hey! Same here!

Do you mod games? If so, what game engine do you like to use?

As for Lego, my wife bought me A whole bunch of Star Wars Lego sets for Christmas a couple of years ago. I enjoy playing with Lego and still would, except I need a LOT of blocks to realise my visions!



Up at my mother's house (many, many miles away) I have trunk loads!

I always knew it: Lego are the best toy. I regret giving away my tackle-box and suitcase full of it. Oh well.

Basically at my primary school i sometimes did this with my mates and i'd say it definetly did help me with my social skills.

Lego is great, used to spend hours and hours building little scenes (always still scenes, hardly ever played) such as offices, schools, prisons and estates etc. Then I'd just tear them down and start again, again and again...

Lol, I used to obsess over designing things that were giving me problems in Rl regulary right up until about a year ago. For example, I'd build and draw plans for ideal schools, foster-homes etc for hours and hours or on a computer program. At the most it gave me some insight, at the very least it was good stress relief.

Yeah, same here. I don't having to follow every rule to a T. It's annoying.

When I was younger, I liked "Legos" a lot; I remember I once got a "Harry Potter" Lego set with a Wormtail "Lego" figure (Wormtail is one of my favorite characters from "Harry Potter") and I tried to make a castle for the figure, which they had instructions for with the set, but my "Lego" design didn't match up with the instructions, so I made my own design instead. In elementary school, in kindergarten, I played with "Legos" with another one of my friends, so it definitely helped my social skills a little. I still like "Legos" somewhat now.

Ya, same here. I had some pretty wild inventions from legos. I even tried to make a sail car by making a huge square of legos and taping some tissue paper between the bars. Then I wheeled it across the kitchen floor with a battery powered fan. Those were good times... this I think would really help younger Aspies explore their creative and logical sides at the same time. I just hope they get legos and not that Mega Bloks crap... what a ripoff...