Influenced by liberal philosophers, for over 200 years Western policies have valued children’s curiosity, imagination, and creativity (Craft, 2010). In England, policy on creativity was cemented with the National Advisory Committee for Creative and Cultural Education (NACCCE, 1999) advocating ‘democratic’ creativity and cultural education. In the early years, children’s creativity was codified ...

BACKGROUND Investigation to see if there are key psychological risk indicators for autism in a random population study of children at 18 months of age; and to assess how well these discriminate children who receive a diagnosis of autism from other forms of developmental delay. METHOD Sixteen thousand children in the southeast of England were screened for autism by their health visitor or GP, ...

In this paper we report a qualitative study based on the constant comparative method to initiate the systematic study of forms of vitality play. This is an unnoticed non-figurative play frame linked to early social play and temporal arts in which child and adult elaborate the dynamics of their own movements and sounds in a repetition-variation form. In the introduction we present the theoretica...

young person. The tables are intended to alert professionals to the possibility of autism in a child or young person about whom concerns have been raised. They are not intended to be used alone, but to help professionals recognise a pattern of impairments in reciprocal social and communication skills, together with unusual restricted and repetitive behaviours. The table relating to preschool ch...

Many have thought that children have an early appreciation of the mind in the case of pretend play. Results from several experiments are against this. However, an experiment by Lillard (Body or mind: children's categorizing of pretense, Child Development, 67 (1996), 1717±1734, Experiment 4) suggested that when a pretense is about a fantasy character, instead of a real entity, children might hav...