Improving Motor Skills & Attention Span with Legos: Lego Group

Abstract

The objective of this project was to improve autistic individuals’ motor skills and attention span with Lego activities. A group of 9 individuals were placed into 3 groups in order to gather data regarding their attention spans, to determine if any assistance was needed, and if they were able to follow the instructions of the building manuals. Each table had several sets of Legos and instruction manuals on how to build them, most of the sets were fairly simple so it would not be too challenging for some of the individuals. By the end of my project I found that the individuals’ attention spans had increased and the individuals needed little to no help building sets or reading through the instruction manual.