Board Game Club: Strategy & Social Skills

Prepare to be amazed as you watch your differently-wired kiddo make real friends, explore this unique content, grow under the guidance of this expert mentor, and be seen in all their glory!

Why Take This Course?

Do you have a kiddo who loves games, strategy, learning, and logic? Are they perhaps a bit on the shy side, but long to make friends? Are you searching for a way to enhance your child's communication, collaboration, and critical thinking skills?  

Our Virtual Boardgame and Social Skills Club is perfect for them! This student-led club enhances communication, collaboration, and critical thinking through engaging board games. Each week, students vote on games like Ticket to Ride, Settlers of Catan, and Pandemic, fostering a fun and supportive environment. 

Join us and watch your child thrive, making friends and building essential life skills in the most supportive setting!

  • Do you have a kiddo who loves games, strategy, learning, and logic? Are they perhaps a bit on the shy side, but long to make friends? Are you searching for a way to enhance your child's communication, collaboration, and critical thinking skills? 

    This is the PEFECT club for them! Students in this club THRIVE because the structure of the board game gives them more comfort socialzing. Not to mention the, this club is packed full of kiddos who are just like your child =) 

    Our student-led social board game class offers students the perfect opportunity to develop these essential skills through their interests: engaging, challenging board games!

    In this class, your child will:

    • Play games they love

    • Connect with like-minded peers who have similar interests

    • Practice communication and collaboration with peers

    • Strengthen critical thinking and strategic planning skills

    • Use executive functioning skills in a fun and supportive environment

    Each week, students will vote on the game they want to play, giving them full control and making this class truly student-led. These board games require strategy and teamwork, providing natural but low-risk consequences that promote real skill development. Some of our favorite games are Ticket to Ride (a classic train game that includes real-world geography), Settlers of Catan, Parks (a fun travel game about national parks), Seven Wonders, Pandemic,  Regicide (a challenging game played with a deck of playing cards), Forbidden Island, and more! 

  • By participating in our program, your child will:

    • Make like-minded friends

    • Gain confidence in social interactions

    • Improve problem-solving abilities

    • Experience the benefits of working as part of a team

    • Enjoy a supportive and inclusive learning atmosphere designed for neurodiverse students

    Enroll your child in our innovative board game class and watch them thrive as they build crucial life skills in a fun and engaging way.

  • Willingness to learn

 

Ages: 9-12 & 13-18

Class size: Maximum- 5 Students

Level: Beginner and Returner

Price Per Session: $39

Our Promise To You

Satisfaction Guarantee:

Your child must attend the class in question to qualify.

If you’re not 100% IN LOVE with your courses, here are your options:

  • Refund requests must be received up to 24 hours after the first course begins to do one of the following options:

    • transfer to another course of the same price

    • get a 100% refund credit toward a future class

    • get a 75% money-back to the original payment method

  • The deposit made at the time of enrollment is non-refundable. 

    Cancellation options are:

    Payment plan: Cancellation requests received up to 24 hours after the first course begins will stop any future payments.

    Any cancellation requests beyond that require a 30-day notice to stop the membership/billing.

    Paid in full:

    Cancellation requests require a 30-day notice.

    The remaining balance at the end of the 30-day cancellation period can be used to transfer to another class or be converted to credit toward a future class.

What Our Parents Say…

  • My son loves Mr. Malikai's chess classes. He's taken several, and he really enjoyed this camp. The teacher is organized and punctual, but, best of all, he's positive and encouraging. While he passes on a lot of knowledge in his classes, he really emphasizes fun. Highly recommend his classes!

  • Malikai is a very gifted teacher. He knows how to get the best out of the student and truly understands the needs of neurodivergent kids. We consider ourselves very lucky to have him part of our son's learning journey

  • This teacher worked tirelessly to help my learner overcome her math anxiety and provided opportunities for her to shine. Her math skills grew so much, as well as her confidence. The class moved at a pace that was neither too fast nor too slow, as it was specifically geared to the individual students in the class and their skill set and comfort level.

Meet Your Mentor

Malikai Bass

Malikai Bass is a twice exceptional (profoundly gifted/ autistic adhder with dyspraxia/dysgrpahia) life-long learner who has been teaching twice-exceptional students virtually for the past four years. He has worked with over a thousand students in classrooms that center, celebrate, and affirm neurodiversity.

He loves helping students succeed and find the ways their brain works to thrive in all subjects and highlight the ways we can use gaming to practice and expand our executive functioning, life, and real social skills.

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Questions Asked By Fellow Parents

  • 4 KEY things:

    1- A focus on the positive! We don’t focus on what students aren’t doing, we support what they are and we know the rest will come. We develop strengths, interests, and relationships. We build students up so they can build a better world! And do it with the new friends they make in our program!

    2- Like-minded neurodivergent peers. Our asynchronous students need one another and YSA is a safe haven for these kiddos to connect around their asynchronies, quirks, and interests. We’re a place where they can be their authentic selves and make friends while doing so!

    3- Passionate, masterful neurodivergent mentors who have walked the walk and can authentically validate and support your child with personal experience and care AND expertise as we all have advanced masters + degrees

    4-Content your students care about taught in a way they love! We offer the courses they need to be taking, not the ones they’re required to take.

    Come by and see for yourself!

  • Please don’t confuse reactive “distance learning” and virtual enrichment programming. After all, a student who is completely fried from a boring zoom class is often quick to pick up a tablet or phone, right?

    Our courses are not at all the same animal =)

  • THIS IS A SATISFACTION GUARANTEE, so your child must attend the class in question to qualify.

    If you’re not 100% IN LOVE with your courses, here are your options:

    1- 8-Week Courses Refund requests must be received up to 24 hours after the first course begins to do one of the following options: 

    Payment plan or Paid in full- 3 options: transfer to another course of the same price, get a 100% refund credit toward a future class, or get a 75% money-back to the original payment method. 

    2-  16+ Week CoursesThe deposit made at the time of enrollment is non-refundable. Cancellation options are:

    Payment plan- Cancellation requests received up to 24 hours after the first course begins will stop any future payments. Any cancellation requests beyond that require a 30-day notice to stop the membership/billing.

    Paid in full- Cancellation requests require a 30-day notice. The remaining balance at the end of the 30-day cancellation period can be used to transfer to another class or be converted to credit toward a future class.

    Please read the description of each course before enrolling.

  • We do! We have 3 kinds:

    1- Word of mouth: 25% off- we know that the best way to reach new families is word of mouth. When you help another family enroll in a YSA class and they name you at checkout, you will get 25% off the cost of the course you’re currently enrolled in once they stay past the refund period. Note— this applies to all regular courses, BUT only applies to the first month of membership courses.

    2- Multi-sibling: 10% off- We believe in supporting whole families and we are willing to put our money where our mouth is! When you sign-up 2 or more kiddos you will receive 10% off. Note— this does not apply to our membership courses.

    3-Multi-course: 10% off- To fully serve your family, we hope to provide your child with all the courses they dream of taking! To make this more affordable, when you enroll in 3 or more classes, you will receive 10% off. Note— this does not apply to our membership courses.

  • Of course!

    As we like to say, if you’re on our site, you’re in the right place.

    Our programming is for students who are not being supported or challenged enough in school.

    If you have an asynchronous kiddo who you know has strengths and struggles, our courses are for your child.

  • 2e students experience such asynchronous development that it proves difficult to have hard age limits.

    We often evaluate students on a case by case basis =)

    Please email us and we’ll discuss: sam@youngscholarsacademy.org

  • All of our programs are 100% virtual. This allows us to bring together the twice-exceptional/neurodivergent students of the world, connect them, and nurture them!

    Your child may very well enter a 6-person class with 5 other students from 5 different states/countries!

    Cool, right?

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