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Join Carol Westby, PhD, CCC-SLP, internationally-renowned expert on play assessment and development and language-literacy relationships and discover current play theories, the development of the four dimensions of play in young children (birth-5 years), and the interrelationships of these dimensions of play to children’s language, cognition, social-emotional skills, self-regulation and literacy. You will walk away with an effective tool that offers a way to assess young children’s symbolic play skills—organized by developmental level. Attention will be given to the ways that language learning disabilities, autism, and socio-economic/cultural variations influence early language, play, and literacy development.
Attend and you will learn current intervention strategies to:
• Advance phonological skills and comprehension for emergent literacy using playful practice
• Promote development of various dimensions of play and the interrelationships of the dimensions of play to children’s language, social-emotional skills, self-regulation and literacy
• Encourage the interactions essential for social-emotional development
• Facilitate children’s understanding of the temporal, cause-effect, and social relationships that exist in the world and that are critical for comprehension of social and academic interactions
• Stimulate language for interpersonal communication and abstract reasoning
• Nurture children’s ability to interpret and respond appropriately to the needs, desires, and roles of others and to use this knowledge to infer the thoughts of others
• Promote children’s ability to organize and monitor their own behavior so they can become independent, self-motivated learners
* The intervention activities that you will learn work for ESL children and pre-school children with disabilities.
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