PO709: Get Your Roll On: Promoting Social Skills Through Role-Playing Games

  • PMD: 1,4
  • Cost: Included in Registration
  • Skill Level: Intermediate
  • Poster Session 6: Promoting Social and Emotional Development

Learner Objectives

This session will help participants…

  1. investigate a potential strategy for conducting a social skills intervention,
  2. identify how a role-playing game may be used as a social skills intervention, and
  3. evaluate if an role-playing game intervention would be a appropriate intervention for specific individuals.

Description

This study investigated the effects of a role-playing game (RPG) on social skill acquisition for individuals with social skill challenges. Come learn design and methodology for an RPG intervention.

Presenter(s)

Libby A. Sales, Jordan School District
Kate A. Helbig, University of Utah

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