Adaptive play for special needs children : strategies to enhance communication and learning
Musselwhite, Caroline Ramsey1986
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Adaptive play refers to play that has been altered in form, complexity, or intent to serve the needs of children with disabilites. This is a textbook intended for professionals and parents of children with a variety of disabilites
Main title:
Adaptive play for special needs children : strategies to enhance communication and learning / Caroline Ramsey Musselwhite
Author:
Imprint:
Boston College Hill Press 1986
Collation:
249 p
Contents:
Part one Overview of adaptive play: Introduction: play as a childhood occupation -- Functions of adaptive play -- General training strategies for adaptive play -- Part two Selecting, adapting, and making play materials -- Toy selection and adaptation -- Adaptive switches and response-contingent devices in adaptive play -- Part three Adaptive play strategies for communicative goals -- Activation -- Tracking, scanning and decision-making -- Early social and communicative interaction -- Object interaction skills -- Symbolic play skills -- Early communication through speech -- Early augmentative communication -- Part four Developing support for adaptive play -- Initiating a toy lending library -- Enlisting community support through bartering -- Promoting mainstreaming through adaptive play -- Adaptive play and the arts -- Adaptive play and lifetime leisure skills -- Part five Appendices
ISBN:
9780316592130 (pbk)
Dewey class:
371.9 ADA
Local class:
371.9
Language:
English
BRN:
98347
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | NADO Collection | 371.9 ADA | Available |