Download or read book An Investigation Into the Development of Symbolic Play in Children with Autism written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Symbolic Play written by Inge Bretherton and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Symbolic Play: The Development of Social Understanding describes the development of symbolic play from infancy through the preschool years. This text is divided into 12 chapters that focus on make-believe as an activity within which young children spontaneously represent and practice their understanding of the social world. The first chapter introduces the development of event schemata produced in symbolic play, about children's management of the playframe, and about the development of subjunctive, or "what if" thought. The next chapters are devoted to the development of joint pretending, specifically the use if shared scripts in the organization of make-believe play and the subtleties of metacommunication. These chapters also emphasize the supporting role of the mother in early collaborative make-believe. These topics are followed by discussions of the child's growing ability to represent the internal states of the inanimate figures whose doing can vicariously enacts. The remaining chapters focus on social interaction through symbolic play with dolls, toy animals, object props, and language. This book will prove useful to psychologists and researchers in the fields of human development, society, and family.
Download or read book The JASPER Model for Children with Autism written by Connie Kasari and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2021-11-17 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authoritative guide to implementing the Joint Attention, Symbolic Play, Engagement, and Regulation (JASPER) intervention. With a strong evidence base, JASPER provides a clear, flexible structure to bolster early skills core to social communication development. The authors show how to assess 1- to 8-year-olds with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), set treatment targets, choose engaging play materials, tailor JASPER strategies to each individual, and troubleshoot common challenges.
Download or read book Play and Imagination in Children with Autism 2nd Edition written by Pamela J. Wolfberg and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2015-04-18 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This now classic text remains a cornerstone of continuing efforts to develop inclusive peer play programs for children on the autism spectrum. The second edition has been thoroughly revised to reflect major new developments in the field of autism. Notable additions include an updated description of the Integrated Play Groups (IPG) model and related research; an examination of the nature of autism and of play from past to present, with major updates on incidence, diagnosis, and characteristics; and a comprehensive review of play interventions. Presenting vivid descriptions of three children with autism over a 10-year period (from age 5 to age 16), Play and Imagination in Children with Autism: Traces the development of the children as they overcome obstacles to enter into the play culture of their peers.Focuses on two critical years during which the children participated in a peer play group.Documents the emergence of remarkable transformations in the children’s social relations with peers and symbolic activity.Includes vignettes, dialogue, and samples of writing and drawing to bring the children’s stories to life.Lays out the implications for new directions in research and practice. Pamela J. Wolfberg is Associate Professor of special education and Director of the autism spectrum graduate program (Project Mosaic) at San Francisco State University. “Play and Imagination in Children with Autism has been the cornerstone of my professional and personal life for nearly a decade. This updated edition retains the original accessible style, explaining so clearly the pivotal role that peer play holds in the lives of individuals on the autism spectrum, while providing readers with cutting-edge developments in theory, research, and practice in the field.” —Heather McCracken, Founder/Executive Director, Friend 2 Friend Social Learning Society “Dr. Wolfberg continues to break new ground with the second edition of her book. What a pleasure for any child to get involved in one of her integrated play groups, and what a relief for parents to know that their child is both learning and having fun! This is a wonderful resource for professionals interested in creating engaging and effective social skills groups for children on the autism spectrum.” —Connie Kasari, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies “Children with autism benefit in so many ways from social play experiences, despite the significant challenges in symbolic development. Dr. Pamela Wolfberg, a leading expert in this crucial aspect of children's development, once again guides us in a highly engaging manner in supporting social and play development for children with ASD.” —Barry M. Prizant, Director, Childhood Communication Services, Brown University “This book is a ‘must’ for anyone who wants to bring about genuine social reciprocity and imagination in children with autistic spectrum disorders. Pamela Wolfberg takes us on a journey through previously uncharted territory, documenting in rich qualitative detail how to scaffold entry into the culture of peer play.” —Adriana L. Schuler, San Francisco State University “Dr. Wolfberg has done a fine and sensitive job in characterizing the pivotal role that play skills hold in the social and linguistic world of the child with autism. Her development of Integrated Peer Play Groups, and the delineation of the autistic child as the ‘Novice Player’ and the typical child as the ‘Expert Player,’ is a very valuable heuristic tool to all who work with children with autism.” —Bryna Siegel, Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, University of California, San Francisco
Download or read book Play Diagnosis and Assessment written by Alice Sandgrund and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2000-03-13 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through play children can express emotions that they cannot verbalise. This completely revised edition of a classic, field-leading resource explains to clinicians how best to identify children's problems using play therapy techniques.
Download or read book The Child Initiated Pretend Play Assessment 2 written by Karen Stagnitti and published by . This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of the Child-Initiated Pretend Play Assessment 2 is the manual of a norm referenced standardised assessment. This assessment manual explains the purpose, administration, scoring and interpretation of the Child-Initiated Pretend Play Assessment 2 (ChIPPA2). This assessment is for children aged 3 to 7 years 11 months and can be used by university trained therapists, for example, occupational therapists, speech pathologists, play therapists, as well as psychologists and teachers. This second edition includes updated information, such as, online training and research references from 2020 to 2022.
Download or read book From Play to Talk written by Soo Wee Ho and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deficits in communication skills, both verbal and nonverbal, are central in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder (SCD). Treatment goals focused on the acquisition of functional communication skills are among the most prevalent targets for instruction in education plans for persons with developmental disabilities (Sigafoos, 1997). This thesis explores the importance of teaching symbolic play skills in early interventions and its role in developing early social communication skills in young children with developmental disabilities, with a focus on children with ASD. This thesis comprises: (i) two parallel systematic reviews on measures used by authors since 2000 for assessing early social communication and for assessing symbolic play, (ii) a report of an intensive one-on-one daily targeted symbolic play intervention for a three-year-old child diagnosed with Pervasive Developmental Disorder- Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS), and (iii) a report of a developmental trajectory study involving both children with ASD (n=4) and neurotypical children (n=4), tracking their play and language development over three time-points across a six-month period.The two systematic literature reviews on measures revealed a total of 46 different measures being employed for assessing early social communication and 26 measures for symbolic play. Of these measures, eight were reported in both reviews. Psychometric properties of the top ten most frequently cited measures on both lists were listed. Implications of the results were discussed. The author put forward the proposition that symbolic play and early social communication are closely linked in early childhood development, such that teaching symbolic play can lead to improvements in early social communication and potentially result in collateral gains in language.Supporting evidence for this hypothesis was presented. A single participant behavioural paradigm was employed to present findings on a targeted symbolic play intervention. Teaching and learning processes are explicated from this experiment. The child made gains in her play skills, becoming a more active player and was able to display more pretend play and more combinations of toys. Even though language skills were not explicitly targeted, the child made gains in language skills, especially in her expressive communication, as assessed by Preschool Language Scale, Fifth Edition (Zimmerman, Steiner, & Pond, 2011).From the developmental trajectory study, the neurotypical group of children made better progress compared to the group of children with ASD, both in their language and in their play skills. The group of children with ASD had a greater percentage of indiscriminate play actions. Indiscriminate play actions are non-specific and non-targeted interactions with the toys or materials presented such as mouthing, sniffing and rubbing the toys against the skin, dropping or throwing the toys off the play table or floor play area. The findings provide validity support for the selected measures used in this study. The child who received targeted symbolic play intervention made significant gains in her play skills, including self pretend play and making many different toy combinations. She also made gains in her expressive communication skills even though these skills were not directly targeted. Overall, this study has provided supporting evidence that targeted symbolic play may be a cusp to developing social communication skills, with collateral gains in language skills. Going beyond using play as a backdrop to teaching various skills, the author argued that symbolic play targets are worthy early intervention goals by themselves.
Download or read book An Investigation of the Symbolic Play Abilities of Children with High Functioning Autism Children with Asperger s Disorder and Typically Developing Children written by Sonia Jessica Prescott and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis reports on a comparative study of the symbolic play skills of children with high functioning autism, children with Asperger's Disorder and typically developing children....No differences were found in the symbolic play abilities of children with Autistic Disorder and Asperger's Disorder, thereby supporting the notion that Asperger's Disorder is a mild variant of Autistic Disorder. (leaf xiii)
Download or read book Social and Symbolic Play Behaviors of Young Children with Autism written by Maria Harvey and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Teaching to Play Or Playing to Teach An Examination of Play Targets and Generalization in Two Interventions for Children with Autism written by Hilary Margret Gould and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Play is universally found and is an important aspect of childhood development. Difficulty with imaginative, or symbolic play, is a core deficit of children with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) (DSM-5; APA, 2013). This study represents the first attempt to compare play targets between two interventions. Sixty-five pre-school aged, minimally verbal children with ASD and their parents participated in this study. Both Discrete Trial Training (DTT) and Joint Attention, Symbolic Play, Engagement & Regulation (JASPER) interventions directly target play skills as a primary area for improvement, but have varying methodological approaches. A randomized controlled trial found that symbolic play types increased across both interventions when targeted, but children receiving the JASPER intervention demonstrated greater gains compared to children receiving DTT. Additionally, only children in the JASPER condition were able to maintain these gains six months later at follow-up. Improvements in symbolic play types were associated with higher scores on cognitive and languages outcomes for both treatments. JASPER interventionists were more likely to choose play targets that were matched with the child's developmental play level compared to DTT, but this did not result in different outcomes between groups. Improvements made with therapists in both treatments did not generalize to parent child interactions at home. These findings suggest further adaptations must be made to improve generalization from school to home, and across partners.
Download or read book Controversial Therapies for Autism and Intellectual Disabilities written by Richard M. Foxx and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the largest and most complex human services systems in history has evolved to address the needs of people with autism and intellectual disabilities, yet important questions remain for many professionals, administrators, and parents. What approaches to early intervention, education, treatment, therapy, and remediation really help those with autism and other intellectual disabilities improve their functioning and adaptation? Alternatively, what approaches represent wastes of time, effort, and resources? Controversial Therapies for Autism and Intellectual Disabilities, 2nd Edition brings together leading behavioral scientists and practitioners to shed much-needed light on the major controversies surrounding these questions. Expert authors review the origins, perpetuation, and resistance to scrutiny of questionable practices, and offer a clear rationale for appraising the quality of various services. The second edition of Controversial Therapies for Autism and Intellectual Disabilities has been fully revised and updated and includes entirely new chapters on psychology fads, why applied behavioral analysis is not a fad, rapid prompting, relationship therapies, the gluten-free, casein-free diet, evidence based practices, state government regulation of behavioral treatment, teaching ethics, and a parents’ primer for autism treatments.
Download or read book Play development in children with disabilties written by Serenella Besio and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the result of the first two-year work of Working Group 1 of the network “LUDI – Play for children with disabilities”. LUDI is an Action (2014-2018) financed by COST; it is a multidisciplinary network of more than 30 countries and almost 100 researchers and practitioners belonging to the humanistic and technological fields to study the topic of play for children with disabilities within the framework of the International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health (WHO, 2001).The principal objective of this book is to bring the LUDI contribution to the important topic of play in children with disabilities, because today an international consensus on the definition of play and disabilities is still lacking. The process of ensuring equity in the exercise of the right to play for children with disabilites requests three actions: to approach this topic through a “common language”, at least all over Europe; to put play at the centre of the multidisciplinary research and intervention regarding the children with disabilities; to grant this topic the status of a scientific and social theme of full visibility and recognized authority. Children with disabilities face several limitations in play, due to several reasons: impairments; playgrounds, toys and other play tools that are not accessible and usable; environments and contexts that are not accessible nor inclusive; lack of educational awareness and intentionality; lack of specific psycho-pedagogical and rehabilitative competence; lack of effective intervention methodologies. Moreover, disabled children’s lives are dominated by medical and rehabilitative practices in which play is always an activity aiming to reach an objective or to provoke an improvement; play for the sake of play is considered a waste of time. The concept of play for the sake of play strongly refers to the distinction between play activities and play-like activities. Play activities are initiated and carried out by the player (alone, with peers, with adults, etc.) for the only purpose of play itself (fun and joy, interest and challenge, love of race and competition, ilinx and dizziness, etc.). They have of course consequences on growth and development, but these consequences are not intentionally pursued. Play-like activities are initiated and conducted by an adult (with one or more children), in educational, clinical, social contexts; they are playful and pleasant, but their main objective is other than play: e.g., cognitive learning, social learning, functional rehabilitation, child's observation and assessment, psychological support, psychotherapy, etc. This book, then, contributes to a clear distinction between play and play-like activities that, hopefully, will bring to new developments in play studies.
Download or read book Developmental Play Assessment for Practitioners DPA P Guidebook and Training Website written by Karin Lifter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developmental Play Assessment for Practitioners (DPA-P) Guidebook and Training Website: Project Play offers a comprehensive assessment of naturally occurring play activities for evaluating young children’s developmental progress accurately, so that useful interventions can take place as early as possible. It can be used by practitioners in a wide range of educational and therapeutic settings and is designed to support developmental progress through planning interventions in play, and using what we know about a child’s progress in play to plan play-based interventions in cognition, language, motor, social-emotional, and self-help skills. The guidebook and training website provide a comprehensive introduction to how to successfully use the assessment with infants, toddlers, and young children with disabilities or at risk for disabilities. The comprehensive guidebook offers an overview of the DPA-P and Project Play, defines play, discusses the background literature on play, and explains why this assessment is needed. Clear guidance helps practitioners and family members understand play, how to evaluate play, and how to use play for different purposes. The guidebook offers: an introduction to the comprehensive training website and how to use it understanding of the categories of play assessed and their definitions guidance on how to administer the assessment and prepare a summary evaluation of a child’s performance clear instructions for the coding sheets and scoring guidelines for constructing sets of toys guidance on taking the results of the DPA-P evaluation of a child’s progress in play to develop a plan of activities for intervention explanation of how you evaluate activities at the absence, basic, emergence, and mastery levels for developing a plan suggestions for assembling sets of toys for intervention, based on toys available in children’s homes and early childhood settings procedures for facilitating or teaching play activities to children who are developing more slowly than their peers technical aspects of the assessment To make the DPA-P as flexible as possible for all practitioners, it also offers guidance on adaptations for administering the test, in the coding sheets, with toys to enhance cultural appropriateness for gathering the observations, and for supporting interventions in play. The Developmental Play Assessment for Practitioners (DPA-P) can be used in natural settings and takes 30 minutes to complete. It is a valuable tool for all those who serve, or are training to serve, young children in early childhood settings, schools, service agencies, colleges, and universities. It will be of great benefit for early intervention personnel, speech-language pathologists, physical therapists, occupational therapists, and psychologists. Please visit https://www.routledge.com/Developmental-Play-Assessment-for-Practitioners-DPA-P-Coding-Sheets/Lifter-Mason-Cannarella-Cameron/p/book/9781032190310 to purchase sets of the Developmental Play Assessment for Practitioners (DPA-P) color-coded coding sheets.
Download or read book Teaching Symbolic Play to Children with Autism Using Pivotal Response Training written by Aubyn C. Stahmer and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Teaching Play to Children with Autism written by Nicky Phillips and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2012-04-04 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Identiplay intervention helps children on the autistic spectrum, and those with specific communication disorders, learn to play. Through the use of play scripts the approach promotes the development of social skills, understanding, imagination and exploration. By learning these skills the young person can enjoy reciprocal play with an adult or peer. Supported by case studies the theory behind the approach is fully outlined and scripts are provided for instant use in a number of settings. The new edition of this popular book includes: - More on developing your own scripts - How to assess the child′s current play skills - The adult′s role in play - The use of visual/verbal support - New case studies - New scripts - Advice on taking learning outdoors - Links to resources and useful websites A supporting CD ROM contains video clips of the intervention in practice, printable scripts and a PowerPoint presentation to facilitate professional training making this a vital resource for anyone working with young children on the autistic spectrum or with communication difficulties.
Download or read book An Investigation Into the Pretend Play Shown by Children with Autism written by Chris Jarrold and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule Ados 2 written by C Lord and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
