Our Mission
Playground Powers was created to bridge the gap between what adults often expect children to know and what many children still need gently taught, modelled and practised.
Playground powers
As a clinical psychologist and speech therapist, we created Playground Powers to help children build social confidence, strengthen communication skills, and develop meaningful friendships through structured play.
Founder and Speech Therapist
Joanne brings warm, practical insight into how children learn social skills best through explicit teaching, safe repetition and trusted adult support.
Joanne brings warm, practical insight into how children learn social skills best through explicit teaching, safe repetition and trusted adult support.Joanne brings warm, practical insight into how children learn social skills best through explicit teaching, safe repetition and trusted adult support.
Founder and Speech Therapist
Dr Simonne supports the program's evidence-informed, neurodiversity-affirming foundations so the learning experience feels thoughtful, respectful and safe.
Dr Simonne supports the program's evidence-informed, neurodiversity-affirming foundations so the learning experience feels thoughtful, respectful and safe. Dr Simonne supports the program's evidence-informed, neurodiversity-affirming foundations so the learning experience feels thoughtful, respectful and safe.
Playground Powers
Playground Powers was created because many children struggle with social situations, but are rarely taught these skills in a clear and supportive way.
Children are expected to navigate complex social situations without being explicitly taught how. While academic learning is structured, social learning is often left to chance. Playground Powers helps fill this gap through play-based, interactive learning.
Children learn best through stories they connect with and characters they remember. Stories slow social moments down, making them easier to understand and together they give children are safe, clear away to practice real life social skills.
The playground is where social learning opportunities occur, and where children build confidence, resilience and self-esteem. Playground Powers sets children up with foundational skills to connect and thrive.
Playground Powers
Playground Powers offers a child-centred approach to social learning and is designed to offer emotionally safe learning, explicit teaching, practical skill building, and neuro-affirming strength-based support.
Children relate to Playground Powers characters and stories, making them feel emotionally safe, or providing practical solutions and emotional regulation techniques.
Children are told explicit social skills to navigate social interactions to concrete language guided examples and repeated steps.
Through fun and reliable characters, children learn acceptance of neuro diversity, three exposure of different ways to relating, communicating and regulating.
The program fosters children’s confidence, resilience and self-esteem by motivating them to practice Playground Powers, which in turn, creates positive social interaction and experiences.
Parents, educators and clinicians are given tools that can be easily relatable and translated into common interactions at home, in the classroom and clinic setting.
Skills are taught through everyday situations children can recognise and use in real life.
Whether you are supporting one child at home or using resources in a classroom or clinic, the prototype makes the journey into the program feel simple and reassuring
