Description
Book SynopsisPlayfulness is important; it creates an alternative space where emotional, cognitive and social dimensions can be explored and tested. This highly practical book explores the endless possibilities of using playful, creative and interactive activities to meaningfully engage with children with multiple learning difficulties or autistic spectrum disorders.
The author presents playfulness as an experimental frame of mind', and encourages practitioners to play with roles, ideas, words, concepts and objects in order to enhance relationships and interventions. By providing accessible steps to playfulness, this text explores some of the contemporary issues surrounding the education of children with severe learning needs, in particular the use of intensive interaction'.
This text considers different areas of creative interactive work for practitioners to draw inspiration from, including:
- Music
- Interactive Musical Movement
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'This essential book is serious about play' - Dave Hewett
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction 1. Context for Learning * Knowing, acknowledging and delivering where the child is * The study of infancy and how this relates to children with PMLD/SLD 2. Theory and Definition * Why Consider Playfulness? * What is Playfulness? * Play/Playfulness Scale 3. Steps to Playfulness: Practitioner / Process * The Practitioner * The Process * Considering Steps to Playfulness 4. Tools * Experimental frame of mind * Voice * Body language * Touch * Arousal modulation * Flexibility * Fun * Flow * Creativity 5. Special Considerations * Autism Spectrum Disorder/Condition * Sensory Impairments * Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty * Challenging Behaviour / boundaries * Post Script 6. Creative Interactive Activities 7. Interactive Music 8. Interactive Musical Movement 9. Finger Dance 10. Story and Drama 11. Artwork 12. Reflective Circle Bibliography Index
