Tired of waiting for help?
LEARN HOW YOU CAN HELP YOUR CHILD
PROGRESS DEVELOPMENTALLY
Play-based strategies and activities for parents concerned their child is missing developmental milestones
Parent Training Courses
and Tutorials
Adaptable Activities
Simple techniques you can implement immediately

YOU'VE HEARD
EARLY SERVICES = BETTER OUTCOMES
and
You KNOW Your Child Needs Help, But HOW?
- You have concerns, but your doctor says "wait it out"
- The next available appointment for the specialist is months away
- You have to wait to receive a diagnosis
- You're waiting for an educational assessment
- You're at the bottom of the waitlists for therapies
- You don't want to waste any more time waiting
If You're Frustrated Waiting, I'll Help You Get Started!
Follow your instincts, don’t play the waiting game.
I’ll teach you how YOU can help your child, so valuable time won’t be wasted
Be Your Child's Best Early Interventionist
Be The Expert Your Child Needs
When you understand the stages of development, you’ll better understand how to help your child. Your child will have the opportunity to grow more when you play at the right level.
Techniques You Can Use Anytime, Anywhere
Once you get the techniques down, they’ll become so natural you’ll use them when you’re not even thinking about it. You won’t have to find extra time, you’ll be able to implement them in all your regular daily activities
Engage Your Child With Adaptable Activities
As your child goes through the different stages of development, you’ll be able to easily adapt activities to target specific skills.

Play With Joy and turn "wait time" into
progress through playtime
Play With Joy helps kids with developmental delays grow through play-based learning
STEP #1
Get The Developmental Progress Sheet
Keep track of your child’s developmental progress with this self-graphing matrix. Find out where your child is developmentally, and what skills to work on next.
STEP #1
Decide How I Can
Best Help You
After you receive your progress sheet, I’ll continue to send you tips, activities, and strategies you can use at home. If you’d like to fast track the information, enroll in the parent training course.
STEP #3
Practice and
PLAY
Practice one or two things at a time and take time to enjoy playing with your child. As you practice and play, the techniques will get more and more natural.
I WANT TO HELP YOU HELP YOUR CHILD
HELLO! I’m Joy. I began working with people with developmental disabilities back in 1998 (wow that makes me feel old). In 2007, I started specializing in working with young kids on the autism spectrum and training parents and educators.
One of my favorite things has been training and mentoring parents along their journey. I believe that family relationships are the most important thing in a child’s life.
Parents have come to me overwhelmed and discouraged. They have felt like they already failed their child because they didn’t know what to do when they first started seeing signs of delays.
I believe that parents have instincts about their kids that no one else has. Sometimes it can be difficult when no one else sees what you see, or doesn’t think it’s a big deal.
I get that waiting is a part of life, however, I wanted to find a way to make it easier for parents to learn ways to help their kids as soon as possible.
I can’t always be everywhere, helping everyone, like I want to. However, I can have information available that will help families everywhere and anytime. That is why I decided to create this website 🙂

Credentials

Certified
P.L.A.Y Project Consultant
since 2009

Master's Degree in Education from
Arizona State University

Certification in
Early Childhood
Special Education from
Utah State University

Bachelor's Degree in Behavioral Science and Health from
University of Utah
WORK WITH ME:

Parents Playing On Purpose
Learn strategies, techniques, and activities that will help you become your child’s Best Early Interventionist.

THE FIRST STEP IS IDENTIFYING YOUR CHILD'S DEVELOPMENTAL PROGRESS
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