INCREASING PRETEND TOY PLAY OF TODDLERS WITH DISABILITIES IN AN INCLUSIVE SETTING

Increasing pretend toy play of toddlers with disabilities in an inclusive setting.

UNLABELLED We evaluated a program for increasing pretend toy play of 2-year-old children with disabilities in an inclusive classroom. Classroom personnel implemented the program, which involved choices of classroom centers containing toys that tend to occasion pretend play in toddlers without disabilities, along with prompting and praise. Increases occurred in independent pretend-play rates amo...

Embedding Sensory Preferences into Toys to Enhance Toy Play in Toddlers with Disabilities

Pretend play.

Pretend play is a form of playful behavior that involves nonliteral action. Although on the surface this activity appears to be merely for fun, recent research has discovered that children's pretend play has connections to important cognitive and social skills, such as symbolic thinking, theory of mind, and counterfactual reasoning. The current article first defines pretend play and then review...

Brief report: prompted pretend play in autism.

A wealth of studies have confirmed Kanner's (1943) view that children with autism have impoverished pretend play (for reviews see Harris, 1993; Jarrold, Boucher, & Smith, 1993; Wulff, 1985). However, there is disagreement about the exact nature of the impairments, the conditions under which the impairments are manifested, and the processes underlying them (Harris, 1993; Jarrold et al., 1993; Le...

Narrative Development in Collaborative Pretend Object Play

We have investigated the experience of individuals at play to better understand how narrative is constructed by collaboration in pretend object play. Our study was conducted with dyads that would play together in two distinct play sessions, with each session being video recorded. Each dyad was shown the video in a retrospective protocol collection. We utilized Grounded Theory as a means of deve...