Supporting parents with the Play & Learning Strategies Program (PALS)
Author title: Director of the Children’s Learning Institute Description: The Play and Learning Strategies program (PALS) supports parents to use highly effective responsiveness behaviors that build a ...Playground Ideas
Author: Marcus Veerman Author title: CEO Description: Playground Ideas is a non-profit organization that supports anyone, anywhere to build a stimulating space for Play using only local materials, tools, ...STEM begins in infancy: Conceptual PlayWorlds to support new practices for professionals and families
... in STEM, an evidence-based model suitable for educators and families to create a STEM thinker in everyday life. Description writer: Marilyn Fleer, Director, Conceptual PlayLab, Monash University, Melbourne, ...The importance of play in early childhood
Author: Dave Neale Author title: Researcher in Play & Psychology Description: Play as an important part of early childhood, understanding reasons for and types of play. Rough and tumble play, Pretend ...Play, music and movement
Author: Helen Battelley Description: The importance of music, dance and movement in infant development and practical tools for linking to specific areas of learning in early childhood. Description writer: ...Playing with books: The road to literacy begins with reading during infancy
Author: Michelle I. Brown Description: Book reading during infancy is a powerful play activity that impacts children’s language and literacy achievement. Strategies to empower caregivers with book reading ...The importance of face-to-face play for infants’ social development
Author: Carina de Klerk Description: This article discusses the implications of face-to-face play research findings for practitioners, and provides pointers for the various ways in which face-to-face ...Child’s play lost in pandemic fear
Social and community disruptions caused by the COVID-19 restrictions could have a lasting effect on child wellbeing. “Play is a key aspect of children’s wellbeing from their perspectives,” says lead ...Dads playing with young children
TAG: Teaching activitiesA playbox intervention in health facility waiting rooms in Mozambique: Improving caregivers’ knowledge, skills and communication with health professionals
Author: Svetlana Karuskina-Drivdale, Nami Kawakyu, Félix Mulhanga Description: A low-cost playbox intervention used in ten health facilities in Maputo Province This was a promising family-centered approach ...‘Playing to Our Strengths’: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, social isolation and new resources to support individuals and families
Author: Michelle Stewart, Shana Mohr Description: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is a complex and often misunderstood, lifelong disability. This article offers insights from a strengths-based, ...Play provision enhances the lives of children in refugee camps
... that support families at the Dunkirk refugee camp of the importance of play. Description writer: Alison Prowle, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Early Childhood, University of Worcester, UK; Janet Harvell, ...Creative play spaces: Finding the space for play
Author: Frances Brett Senior Lecturer Description: Play and creativity are terms that we use freely but may mean different things to different people, dependent on context or the phase of life we are ...Playing with the text: The importance of sharing books with babies
Author: Deborah Cogan Thacker Description: This article considers the wealth of recent research on reading with infants and pre-schoolers. The way in which early book-sharing events happens is the final ...“Daddy’s Funny!” Fathers’ playfulness with young children
Author: Jennifer St George Richard Fletcher Description: In this brief paper, we tease out the specificities of fathers’ play with infants and young children and suggest some developmental benefits for ...Mind Builders’ Play Manual:Practical Ideas for Healthy Development, Play and Behaviour at Home
Sibylle JanertAttachment: A play of closeness and distance
Author: Robin Balbernie Description: An explanation of attachment theory and it’s implications for development. Description writer: Clinical Director, PIP (Parent Infant Partnership) UK TAG: Attachment ...The commercialisation of play
Author: Mary Nolan Author title: Professor Description: Mary Nolan, discusses how relationships, not toys, build the mind. Description writer: Professor of Perinatal Education, Institute of Health ...Interesting times: Crises and opportunities
Author: Sally Hogg Description writers: Policy Fellow at the Centre for Play in Education, Development and Learning (PEDAL), University of Cambridge- 1
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