Everyday Play, Everyday Progress
The Frontline Interventionist’s Guide to Playground Success
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The real work does not happen at a table.
It happens on a playground when the swing is taken. In a gym when the body wants to quit. On a trail when a client is done and you still have to get them to the car. That is where skills either stick or fall apart.
J.T. Burger wrote Everyday Play, Everyday Progress for the people who actually run the session: home-health staff, school shadows, and direct-care interventionists. For ten years he worked in Applied Behavior Analysis. He holds a graduate certificate in ABA. He started as a behavior interventionist and a teacher—on the floor, in the chaos, in the moments that change a life.
As a kid, the playground was his favorite place. Learning and joy were the same thing there. That is why he went into ABA. And that is why this book exists. He wants to help as many people as he can with the tools he knows work.
This is a field manual, not a desk theory. Inside are twenty chapters on how to map a playground, coach teens and adults without taking their dignity, reset a loaded nervous system, start small enough to finish on a hard day, and walk a client off the equipment without a crash at the door.
ABA was never meant to be a tiny desk and a ticking timer. It was meant to be a science of connection—in the open air, where life already happens.
If you are tired of programs that only work in a quiet room, this book is for you. Start small. Stay human. Make progress feel like something a person can live.
Details
- Publication Date
- Sep 5, 2026
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780557887750
- Category
- Social Science
- Copyright
- All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
- Contributors
- By (author): J.T. Burger
Specifications
- Format
- EPUB