ICDL

The PLAY Project is excited to announce an upcoming partnership with ICDL! The PLAY Project and ICDL partnership will increase opportunities for professionals trained in The PLAY Project to also be trained in DIRFloortime® with reduced requirements and cost, and vice versa. Further information will be announced soon. We look forward to expanding our network to help as many children with autism as possible by increasing certified PLAY Project and DIRFloortime® providers across the world. View ICDL‘s press release here.

The Childhood League Center

Founded in 1945 by a group of visionary women in Columbus Ohio, The Childhood League Center has offered early childhood education, intervention, and therapeutic services to young children in Franklin County Ohio for over 70 years.

The Childhood League Center is the first licensed PLAY Project Center in the nation!

Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities

Since 2010 Ohio’s Department of Developmental Disabilities, under the leadership of Director John Martin, has implemented The PLAY Project statewide in Ohio’s early intervention system. Parents of children less than 3 years old at risk of or diagnosed with autism get PLAY Project home visiting services for free.

The program is administered in collaboration with OCALI (Ohio Center for Autism and Low Incidence) a non profit agency that serves children with disabilities and their families.

Easter Seals

Easter Seals is national non-profit organization that serves children and adults with a broad range of disabilities. Over the last ten years, The PLAY Project has trained Easter Seals agencies in nearly a dozen states and communities to provide PLAY’s intensive autism intervention services.

Easter Seals agencies, in collaboration with Michigan State University’s program evaluation experts, teamed up to study the effectiveness of the PLAY Project. From 2009-2012, federally funded (National Institute of Mental Health) research evaluated The PLAY Project’s Home Consultation Program at five Easter Seals sites across the country. (Click here to read the study.)

National Institute For Play

The National Institute for Play is a non-profit corporation committed to bringing the knowledge, practices, science, and benefits of play into public life. It is gathering research from diverse play scientists and practitioners.

Stuart Brown M.D., the founder and executive director of the institute, supports the work of The PLAY Project.

Profectum Foundation

Profectum Foundation is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to advancing the development of all children, adolescents and adults with autism and special needs.

Their work builds upon the Developmental, Individual Differences, Relationship (DIR) model of Stanley Greenspan MD and Serena Weider PhD. Dr. Solomon is a senior faculty member of and frequent collaborator of Profectum.

Licensed PLAY Project Agencies | Click Here to See Full List

The PLAY Project name has received formal trademark registration from the US Patent & Trademark Office and permission to use the name can only be granted under licensure. Professionals and organizations who implement The PLAY Project autism intervention model will have permission to use our name, logo and program materials under our licensing agreement. We send out national press releases and marketing campaigns that benefit our licensed organizations.

As The PLAY Project grows, we are gaining name recognition in more and more communities. Professionals, administrators, state officials, autism experts, and families recognize that our program provides a quality developmental and behavioral approach to autism intervention. The first year license payment is included as part of the certification training fee. After the first year, a yearly licensing fee is implemented.

Click here to view our current licensing benefits.