Reduce stress and anxiety

Facilitate communication

Build relationships and develop interactions

Enable an individual to experience and process difficult feelings non-verbally

Provide a space where the client can be freely creative

Increase awareness of self and others

Practise social skills

Provide an opportunity to build confidence and a sense of agency

Enhance motor skills, fine and gross

Encourage vocalising and verbal skills

Develop skills such as turn taking

Explore challenging behaviour

Support aspects of stages of development, including non-verbal interaction, play and language.

Provide a safe and cathartic space for the release of feelings.