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Pretend Play of Children with Cerebral Palsy

Physical and Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics, 2011
Evaluate self-initiated pretend play of children with cerebral palsy.Twenty preschool children participated in the study. Pretend play ability was measured by using the child-initiated pretend play assessment culturally adapted to Brazil.There were significant negative correlations between the children's motor severity level and their elaborateness of ...
Luzia Iara Pfeifer
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Playing to Pretend or “Pretending” to Play: Play in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Seminars in Speech and Language, 2022
AbstractChildren diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) exhibit early delays and deficits in play. In infancy, they engage in unusual exploratory behaviors with toys. As toddlers, they are slow to develop functional play, and in preschool some children with ASD fail to develop symbolic play despite having the necessary cognitive and language ...
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Pretend play

WIREs Cognitive Science, 2015
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
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Playing for the sake of playing : an enactive account of pretend play in childhood

Rivista di psicolinguistica applicata, 2022
Pretend play has often been considered an ‘as if’ state in which children act as if something is the case when it is not. This definition leads to three relevant assumptions. First of all, pretend play is understood as an enclosed concept, requiring that all occurrences of pretend play be distinguishable from other ‘as if’ states, such as error or ...
Sparaci, Laura, Bonsignori, Chiara
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An Enactive Characterization of Pretend Play

Proceedings of the 2015 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition, 2015
This paper presents the result of an empirical study of 32 adult dyads (i.e. groups of two people) engaged in pretend play. Our analysis indicates that participatory sense-making plays a key role in the success of pretend play sessions. We use the cognitive science theory of enaction as a theoretical lens to analyze the empirical data given its robust ...
Nicholas M. Davis   +4 more
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Social Pretend Play in Toddlers: Parallels with Social Play and with Solitary Pretend

Child Development, 1989
HowEs, CAROLLEE; UNGER, OLIVIA; and SEIDNER, LAURA BEIZER. Social Pretend Play in Toddlers: Parallels with Social Play and with Solitary Pretend. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1989, 60, 77-84. Social play and social and solitary pretend play were observed in well-acquainted toddlers (n = 42) who ranged in age from 14 to 38 months in order to describe a sequence ...
Carollee Howes   +2 more
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Pretending to Play or Playing to Pretend: The Case of Autism.

American journal of play
An article by Angeline S. Lillard and others published in the January 2013 issue of Psychological Bulletin about the impact of pretend play on child development raised a number of issues about play studies and child psychology. They claimed that, contrary to current theories on the subject, the evidence of many studies does not support causal ...
Connie, Kasari   +2 more
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