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Hi, I'm a speech therapist rabbit and have used fluxx, ecofluxx, family fluxx and the marvelous Nano-fictionary in my therapy sessions for years. YEARS!!! I have used them mostly in the upper elementary and middle school level. I love the way Nano-fictionary helps students get all the parts of a story in visual representation before they start to tell it. I use a whole bunch of non-looney lab games. I especially like games where I can change the "meat" of what the kids are doing for my own nefarious purposes. Two examples of this is BLURT, where I retain the game format, but replace the words with my own, and Outburst, where I first get my clients to help put categories together and then later we use other groups' cards. This allows me to specialize cards to our area and our school or the curriculum. Any category that has ten members can be used. Kiddos love to think that they are using the real playing cards, so I often scan them and then use my computer to make ones that look like the "real" ones. Sometimes I have kiddos tell me that they bought a certain game, but it wasn't as much fun as the one we use! Special rules I use are if one person is getting left behind, I make the next question "just for them" or "just for X and Y". Sometimes kiddos balk at this (the ones that are ahead), but usually they like the fact that everyone gets caught up to a certain point and then we move on... and that it can be "Anybody's game" at the end. Makes it more exciting. Yes, this is from a person who plays games with kiddos for a living, Kelly Brown Kellyannbrown@xxxxxxxxxxx
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