Description
Book SynopsisYoung Children's Play: Development, Disabilities, and Diversity is an accessible, comprehensive introduction to play and development from birth to age 8 years that introduces readers to various play types and strategies and helps them determine when intervention might be needed. Skillfully addressing both typically developing children and those with special needs in a single volume, this book covers dramatic play, blocks, games, motor play, artistic play, and non-traditional play forms, such as humor, rough and tumble play, and more.
Designed to support contemporary classrooms, this text deliberately interweaves practical strategies for understanding and supporting the play of children with specific disabilities (e.g. autism, Down syndrome, or physically challenging conditions) and those of diverse cultural backgrounds into every chapter. In sections divided by age group, Trawick-Smith explores strategies for engaging children with specific special nee
Table of Contents
1. What Is Play and Why Is It Important?; 2. Types of Play, Culture, and Disabilities; 3. Social Play: Development and Variations; 4. Adult–Child Play Interactions and Play Intervention; 5. The Play of Infants and Toddlers; 6. The Play of Preschool and Kindergarten Children; 7. The Play of Primary Age Children
