Minecraft Adult Teams (Young Adults 18-29 years)

Learn Specific Social Skills (In an Autism-friendly way)

• Express opinions.
• Listen to others’ ideas.
• Build conversational skills.
• Take others' feedback on board.
• Politely say 'no' to others' suggestions.
• Give and receive compliments.
• Learn to build rapport and make connections.
• Learn self-esteem and self-talk strategies.
• Plan together.
• Create together.
• Be a great team-player.

We Can Work On NDIS Goals

We have different goals for each child and team. We set your child’s teamwork goals depending on your child's abilities. For community members who are on NDIS goals, we can set goals that match NDIS objectives and we match goals to your child's unique personality.

NDIS Funding Categories

NDIS funding is generally available for self-managed and plan-managed NDIS plans. Chat with your plan manager for what is relevant to your situation. It is helpful to know that other families have told us they usually use these categories (or similar):

1. Increased Social & Community Participation
2. Improved Daily Living

For plan-managed participants, your plan manager will be able to tell you whether your plan will cover this, as some plan-managed participants may have some out-of-pocket expenses. Most families are able to cover this without out-of-pockets.

Pricing for NDIS is structured as: $69.80

[1.0 hour of face to face ($61.50) + 0.135 hour ($8.30) non-face-to-face, total $69.80]

NDIS Reports Provided

People often ask, “Can I please have a report for our NDIS plan review?”

Rest assured, the answer is a resounding "Yes!" 

We'll arrange that for you.

No hidden fees - All reporting like this is already built into the standard program fee, so you will not be given an extra fee beyond the usual cost of the program. 

Teaching social skills in an Autism friendly way

We use a range of Autism-friendly strategies to make it easy and fun for Autistic people to develop their social skills, conversational skills and teamwork skills. Here’s how we help young people grow their skills in an Autism-friendly way:

1. We introduce a skill broken down into simple steps - This defines clear and specific routines, rules & social norms, so our learners don't have to guess
2. We make our demonstrations fun and natural
3. We provide a safe & fun space to practice - We create a fun, safe place with plenty of opportunities to practice social skills
4. Create ways that our learners can practice at home
5. Explain why these steps work - Solidify their understanding & show that these skills are worth learning & using
6. Encourage them to keep going - We use encouragement, humour and sense of team spirit to make learning fun and to build peripheral social skills at the same time

Tony Attwood (basically the go-to guru in Australia on Autism) said this:

This is what kids get out of computer game time:

• They can achieve a temporary escape - to get away from the world and it stresses.
• Create a sense of connection with other people who think like they do (which doesn’t always happen - in the real world)
• Computer games give instant gratification - because there are always a series of goals and you achieve them and you get told you are a champion for achieving them.
• There’s a good sense of challenge that appeals to kids with Autism
• Often kids to feel unpopular at school can feel a sense of popularity with other gamers
• There’s usually hardly any social chit-chat or off topic social cues to read. It simplifies interacting with others
• In some types of computer games, kids can build their own avatar, which is a pretend person who they can be, like a superhero or something like that.

Source: https://attwoodandgarnettevents.com/internet-gaming-and-autism/



We are not "Minecraft" or "Microsoft" - We just use Minecraft to help kids/teens build social skills.

NOT AN OFFICIAL MINECRAFT EVENT/etc.]. Not endorsed or approved by or associated with mojang or microsoft.