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 ...
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, ...
... 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, ...
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 ...
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: ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
... 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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Author: Robin Balbernie Description: An explanation of attachment theory and it’s implications for development. Description writer: Clinical Director, PIP (Parent Infant Partnership) UK
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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 ...
