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...

Digitalisation and the accompanying transformation processes, involving data, technology people, are part of children's life will shape their future. Competences, such as digital skills, well creativity, communication, collaboration, critical thinking problem solving crucial to these processes. In early childhood, competences essentially acquired through play, especially pretend play. The proje...

One of the major developments of the second year of human life is the emergence of the ability to pretend. A child's knowledge of a real situation is apparently contradicted and distorted by pretense. If, as generally assumed, the child is just beginning to construct a system for internally representing such knowledge, why is this system of representation not undermined by its use in both compr...

One of the major developments of the second year of human life is the emergence of the ability to pretend. A child's knowledge of a real situation is apparently contradicted and distorted by pretense. If, as generally assumed, the child is just beginning to construct a system for internally representing such knowledge, why is this system of representation not undermined by its use in both compr...

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...

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...

Recent work suggests autistic children are impaired in their symbolic (or pretend) play. However, such studies have either used inadequate definitions of 'pretend', or have not examined spontaneous play. An experiment is reported which attempts to overcome these difficulties This confirms that autistic children are severely impaired in their ability to produce pretend play, in contrast to non-a...