We’re excited to see you this week for our hometown PAX! This September 2nd-5th, we’re excited to connect with you at PAX West through workshops and panels on all sorts of geek-centric subjects, neat merch, and previews of Critical Core! We’re grateful for the safety protocols being implemented this year to keep our community safe, […]
Listen in as Game to Grow’s Director of Counseling Services, Dr. Jared Kilmer, joins Dr. Courtney McDonnell and host Carrie Schmitt to on “Making Sense: Sensory Health Podcast Series from STAR Institute.” They discuss ways in which the psychological assessment process can be neurodiversity affirming.
Are you excited to brave the cold windy streets of Philadelphia this December for some tabletop fun? Us too – we’ll see you at PAX Unplugged from December 10-12. We’re grateful for the safety protocols being implemented this year to keep our community safe, and encourage you to check out the convention’s health and safety […]
The Critical Core team, Virginia Spielmann, Adam Johns, and myself (Adam Davis) were featured on the Affect Autism podcast and blog in a feature about our “Beginner’s Box” for therapeutic role-playing games. It’s a fantastic article with links to a ton of useful resources about the foundations of both Critical Core and the Game to […]
PAX West is over, and even if you couldn’t attend in-person or virtually, you can still see our panel presentations! Below is the panel #actuallyautistic GMs: Panel Description: Many autistic individuals struggle across social settings, but really shine behind a dungeon master’s screen. Join our panel of autistic game masters to learn more about what […]
Paizo, the publisher of the tabletop role-playing game Pathfinder, recently contacted Game to Grow to contribute to their community blog to recognize Autism Awareness Month. In order to elevate autistic voices, we reached out to members of the Game to Grow community to share their own voices and experiences. Authors include Catrine Zorn, a trainee […]
We were invited to speak at the Renton History Museum about our work using role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons in our social skills groups. Renton History Museum is opening an exhibit today called “Hero’s Feast: Finding Community through Dungeons and Dragons.” As part of the installation, we’ll be giving a 1 hour presentation on […]
It’s that time again. We have been running our five weekly groups for several quarters now, and have hired and trained two new facilitators to run additional groups. We now have the capacity to expand again, and we’d love to serve even more youth in the greater Seattle area. Our groups use games like Dungeons […]
We’ll be presenting a plenary session at the 2018 International DIRFloortime Conference in Washington, DC, titled Critical Core: Role-Playing Games and the Future of Social-Skills Enrichment. The conference will be Friday and Saturday, November 9 & 10, and attendees will be able to receive CEUs! Adam Davis and Adam Johns will be co-presenting with Virginia Spielmann, who […]
We received an email from Ben Collier, who had been inspired by our work using Dungeons and Dragons to help teens with autism diagnoses build social skills and reduce isolation. After hearing about our groups, he filmed a documentary short about a group in Buckinghamshire, England that shows the amazing power of role-playing games to […]