Due to popular demand, we’re expanding the program to TWO time slots for the 2025-26 school year!
SOCIAL SKILLS IS BACK
As featured in U.S. News and School Library Journal, our Social Skills program on Saturdays teaches children emotional regulation, cooperation, and executive functioning through immersive Dungeons & Dragons gameplay.
PLUS PLUS PLUS! We’re still offering Social Skills during the summer! This full-day program includes D&D, cooperative games, and a daily trip to Prospect Park. Still a few limited seats available for select weeks!
PROGRESS THROUGH PLAY
When kids arrive, we assist with their transition into the gaming space. Empowered with information collected from intake questionnaires, our experienced instructors connect with each student to review the goals for the session.
Once they’ve been acclimated and are ready to engage, BGL “Dungeon Masters” will lead each table’s session of Dungeons & Dragons. This highly imaginative, cooperative, and story-driven game gives children a vehicle to exercise their social skills as they work together to overcome challenges.
This program is staffed exclusively with senior-level team members with relevant experience and training, and has a student-to-staff ratio that’s nearly two-to-one. We’re all about personal attention on Saturdays!
During gameplay, our team will be on-hand for physical activity breaks, emotional support and to continually connect with your child on their goals.
Each parent will receive regular updates via email detailing their individual child’s choices, struggles, and achievements. We’re always ready to have a discussion on ways to better support your child’s unique needs.
PROGRAM FOCUS
As they play, we help children through:
Learning and utilizing conflict resolution strategies
Identifying triggers leading to emotional dysregulation
Utilizing coping strategies to improve emotional regulation
Recognizing when an emotional response is an over/under reaction
Gaining strategies to cope with changes and transitions
Improving ability to follow multi-step directions
Implementing executive functioning skills to complete tasks
Improving turn taking and active listening skills
Coping with delayed vs. immediate gratification
Decreasing impulsivity and increasing attention span
Nurturing Independence
Looking for our Executive Functioning program? We’re simplifying our offerings this year by rolling all the benefits of EF into the Social Skills program. When your child enrolls, you’ll choose what focus areas they’ll be working with us to improve, including executive functioning as an option.
Sign Up Now!
Admission is on a rolling basis, and you can join at any point in the school year. Our two time slots are divided by age, with our morning slot oriented towards younger kids and our afternoon slot towards older kids. 9-11 year olds may join either time slot.
Location: Center Slope (310 7th Ave)
Discounts available:
Registering siblings? Buy 2 or more sessions to get each session for 5% off! Discounts will appear on the check-out page.
For 6 to 11 year olds:
For 9 to 16 year olds:
NOTE: Brooklyn Game Lab does not provide clinical/therapeutic services, nor the associated documentation for insurance reimbursement.