Download or read book Symbolic Play and Language Development in Atypical Children written by Sheena L. Carter and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 122 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 Symbolic Development in Atypical Children written by Dante Cicchetti and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Language Development and Language Impairment written by Paul Fletcher and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-08-17 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language Development and Language Impairment offers a problem-based introduction to the assessment and treatment of a wide variety of childhood language developmental disorders. Focuses for the most part on the pre-school years, the period during which the foundations for language development are laid Uses a problem-based approach, designed to motivate students to find the information they need to identify and explore learning issues that a particular speech or language issue raises Examines the development of a child’s phonological system, the growth of vocabulary, the development of grammar, and issues related to conversational and narrative competence Integrates information on typical and atypical language development
Download or read book The Relationship Between the Development of Symbolic Play and Language in Normal and Language Impaired Children written by Brenda Yvonne Terrell and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Emotional Development in Atypical Children written by Michael Lewis and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early emotional development, emotional regulation, and the links between emotion and social or cognitive functioning in atypically developing children have not received much attention. This lack is due in part to the priorities given to the educational and therapeutic needs of these children. Yet an understanding of the basic emotional processes in children with atypical development can only serve to promote more effective strategies for teaching and intervening in the lives of these children and their families and may contribute to our understanding of basic emotional processes as well. When referring to "emotions," the editors mean some complex set of processes or abilities, whether or not the topic is normal or atypical development. Specifically, they use the term "emotion" to refer to at least three things -- emotional expressions, emotional states, and emotional experiences. The focus of this volume, these three aspects of emotional life are affected by socialization practices, maturational change, and individual biological differences including, in this case, differences in children as a function of disability. Contributors examine the development of emotions in children with organic or psychological disorders as well as those in compromised social contexts making this volume of prime importance to developmental, clinical, and social psychologists, educators, and child mental health experts.
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 Modeled Symbolic Play and Language Development in Autistic Children written by Kerry R. Mildon and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Children at Play Clinical and Developmental Approaches to Meaning and Representation written by Arietta Slade Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at the City College and Graduate Center City University of New York and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994-01-27 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As they play, children do more than imagine--they also invent life-long approaches to thinking, feeling, and relating to other people. For nearly a century, clinical psychologists have been concerned with the content and interpersonal meaning of play. More recently, developmental psychologists have concentrated on the links between the emergence of symbolic play and evolving thought and language. At last, this volume bridges the gap between the two disciplines by defining their common interests and by developing areas of interface and interrelatedness. The editors have brought together original chapters by distinguished psychoanalysts, clinical psychologists, social workers, and developmental psychologists who shed light on topics outside the traditional confines of their respective domains. Thus the book features clinicians exploring subjects such as play representation, narrative, metaphor, and symbolization, and developmentalists examining questions regarding affect, social development, conflict, and psychopathology. Taken together, the contributors offer a rich, integrative view of the many dimensions of early play as it occurs among peers, between parent and child, and in the context of therapy.
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 Development of Symbolic Play and Language in Language Disordered Children written by Elizabeth A. Skarakis and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Learning to Play and Playing to Learn written by Sara Jane Quinn and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theory in developmental psychology has long recognised commonalities between symbolic play and language, yet approaches differ in the importance they assign to the role of symbolic play in language acquisition (e.g., constructivist theory, Piaget, 1962; socio-cultural theory, Vygotsky, 1978). This thesis examines the nature of the relationship between the two domains in early childhood, with a focus on whether the context of symbolic play provides a fertile context for language development (Bruner, 1983; Vygotsky, 1962, 1978). Study 1 presents a quantitative review of the accumulated empirical evidence in the field. A meta-analysis of correlational symbolic play-language studies was conducted, with thirty-one studies meeting the criteria for inclusion (N = 6,561). The results revealed a direct relationship between the two domains: growth in symbolic play ability was associated with growth in language, a relationship that was evident concurrently and longitudinally. The results established beyond doubt that there is a significant association between symbolic play and language in development, addressing recent queries to the contrary that have been made on the basis of qualitative reviews (Lillard et al., 2013). A longitudinal study of 54 parent-infant dyads is then reported. Parents and their infants were observed engaging in different types of play contexts (functional, symbolic). Using these data Studies 2 and 3 investigated the influence of play contexts on verbal and socio-cognitive communicative acts used in parent-infant interaction when infants were 18 months old. Study 2 found play context influenced child-directed speech: in functional play parents were more likely to comment on (declaratives) and direct their infant's behaviour (imperatives), whereas in symbolic play parents presented infants with more opportunities to participate in conversation through the use of wh- and yes/no-questions. This lead to a greater number of conversational turns in the symbolic play condition. Study 3 revealed differences in socio-cognitive communicative acts across play contexts: the frequency and duration of joint attention was greater and encouraged gesture use in symbolic play compared to functional play. Overall Studies 2 and 3 suggest symbolic play is an environment that encourages the use of specific verbal and socio-cognitive communicative acts, which provides infants with opportunities to participate and engage in interactions. Study 4 examined whether the verbal and socio-cognitive communicative acts characteristic of functional and symbolic play, as identified in Studies 2 and 3, predicted infant language growth over the following 6 months. Conversational turns and imperatives were consistently correlated with infant language knowledge at 18, 21 and 24 months. When controlling for infant age and language proficiency at 18 months, conversational turns positively predicted vocabulary production at 18 and 24 months, whereas imperatives negatively predicted infant language growth and syntactic complexity at 24 months. Therefore, two features which distinguish functional and symbolic play, the use of imperatives and conversational turns, had differential longitudinal effects on infant language development, with the greater interactional complexity characteristic of symbolic play positively predicting development. It is concluded that the socio-cognitive ecology of symbolic play has a positive effect on language development via its tendency to engage interlocutors in the shared exchange and negotiation of meaning.
Download or read book Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2015-07-23 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children are already learning at birth, and they develop and learn at a rapid pace in their early years. This provides a critical foundation for lifelong progress, and the adults who provide for the care and the education of young children bear a great responsibility for their health, development, and learning. Despite the fact that they share the same objective - to nurture young children and secure their future success - the various practitioners who contribute to the care and the education of children from birth through age 8 are not acknowledged as a workforce unified by the common knowledge and competencies needed to do their jobs well. Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 explores the science of child development, particularly looking at implications for the professionals who work with children. This report examines the current capacities and practices of the workforce, the settings in which they work, the policies and infrastructure that set qualifications and provide professional learning, and the government agencies and other funders who support and oversee these systems. This book then makes recommendations to improve the quality of professional practice and the practice environment for care and education professionals. These detailed recommendations create a blueprint for action that builds on a unifying foundation of child development and early learning, shared knowledge and competencies for care and education professionals, and principles for effective professional learning. Young children thrive and learn best when they have secure, positive relationships with adults who are knowledgeable about how to support their development and learning and are responsive to their individual progress. Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 offers guidance on system changes to improve the quality of professional practice, specific actions to improve professional learning systems and workforce development, and research to continue to build the knowledge base in ways that will directly advance and inform future actions. The recommendations of this book provide an opportunity to improve the quality of the care and the education that children receive, and ultimately improve outcomes for children.
Download or read book The Development of Symbolic Play and Language in a Language Disordered Child in a Clinical Program written by Nancy Neilan Schafer and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Communication in Atypical Infants and Toddlers written by Christina F. Papaeliou and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-16 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comparative review of the latest studies and data on prelinguistic communication and early semantic development in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), Williams syndrome (WMS), attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and early language delay. Papaeliou offers a critical analysis of the literature, compares key theoretical approaches, and interprets data on development in atypical populations. A fruitful synthesis of theory and research reveals that, instead of cognitive deficits, the core feature of these neurodevelopmental disorders consists of deficits in the ability for self- and intersubjective coordination, which adversely affects early interactions and, consequently, the emergence of language. The book composes fragmentary proposals on the role of rhythm disruptions in different conditions, setting out the idea that disruption in interactional synchrony is a connecting thread through neurodevelopmental disorders which show high prevalence or high comorbidity rates. Papaeliou identifies distinct communicative patterns characteristic of each disorder and puts forward a unifying theory for interpreting data on early communication and language development in atypical populations. This is ideal reading for psychologists, psycholinguists, psychiatrists, paediatricians, speech therapists, and special educators. Students in developmental psychology and anyone interested in understanding the research behind typical and atypical development will also benefit from this text.
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.
