There are many more children with learning differences and difficulties in our schools today. Their needs are varied and complex and professionals must find appropriate ways to enhance their ...learning. The value of play is endorsed in policy initiatives including The Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum, so professionals can be reassured that ‘more time to play’ is in line with the latest thinking.
Christine Macintyre emphasises the importance of creating an environment where children become confident, independent learners, increasingly able to use their imaginations, care for others and to take safe risks. This fully revised edition of Play for Children with Special Needs includes new research findings and explains their implications for practice.
This book then enables those supporting children to:
understand the benefits of play and how to adapt different scenarios to support children who do not find it easy to play
observe children as they play so that any difficulties can be identified early
analyse different play areas so that the different kinds of learning (intellectual, creative, motor, social and emotional) are appreciated.
Play for Children with Special Needs, 2 nd edition enables practitioners to appreciate the contribution that play makes to the education of all children, whether they have special needs or not. It is for parents, teachers, teaching assistants and nursery professionals as well as those who care for children at home.
@contents: Selected Contents: Foreword Introduction Chapter 1 The ambience of the setting: A plea for time and calm Chapter 2 The essence of play Chapter 3 Early Indicators of Special Educational Needs Chapter 4 Analysing and adapting play opportunities Chapter 5 Understanding the learning process as children play Appendices
'This fully revised second edition emphasises the importance of creating an environment where children become confident, independent learners, increasingly able to use their imaginations, care for others and to take safe risks.' - Nursery World
Dr Christine Macintyre is an educational consultant and prolific author, formerly at the Moray House School of Education, Edinburgh University.
New Light Watson, Goodwin
Journal of Consulting Psychology,
01/1938, Volume:
2, Issue:
1
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
If the column, "New Light" had even a fraction of a Nobel Prize to award each two months to the most useful contribution, the glad notification would go this time to the December number of
...Occupations
Several of the articles from this issue are summarized in this column. Also of note, a recent issue of the
Psychological Monograph
gives valuable new light on stuttering. A new book by Cyril Burt, "The Backward Child," provides a competent summary of the remedial work which should be done on health, sensory capacities, speech, and emotional problems, together with the educational adjustments for the ten-to-fifteen percent of the children who will remain retarded in intellect despite the best available remedial service. These and other recent works are discussed in this column.
The present study examines the reported condition and clinical treatment of children at the Psychological Clinic that Lightner Witmer (1867-1956) founded at the University of Pennsylvania for ...delinquent and "backward" children whose problems were considered to have been caused not by "feeble-mindedness", but rather by environmental and physical factors. It was thought possible for children who received continuous treatment there to improve their mental and physical abilities up to the typical level for their age. At the Clinic, individual treatments were designed based on continuing diagnosis conducted through a prolonged period of educational treatment; coordination with the children's homes and specialized agencies was also emphasized. An experimental special class organized by the Psychological Clinic and held during the summer vacations of public schools not only provided continuous individual treatment to children who had earlier visited the Psychological Clinic and were considered to need more detailed examination, but also practiced an experimental group treatment. The experimental special class was, however, never exclusively designed to help "backward" children who were thought to be capable of achieving the grade level and social status of children with typical development, due to the lack of methods for classifying "backwardness" and "feeble-mindedness". Although Witmer never developed systematic methods of diagnosis and treatment for these children as a group, he achieved some progress in diagnosing and treating individual cases. The Psychological Clinic was the world's first psychological clinic.
Studied the existing conditions and progress of the backward and defective children under such favorable surroundings and pedagogical procedure, which the physiological school afforded. The 53 normal ...children between ages 4 to 14 yrs and backward and defective children between ages 9 to 19 yrs were chosen for study. Sensory tests and motor coordination tests were given. Results showed that there was need of frequent psycho-physical examination of children. It has been emphasized that such results would help in the establishment of norms in terms of which children could be scientifically classed for pedagogical purposes. It was found that there was a uniform increase of ability at motor coordination as the intelligence arose and that lower the intelligence the more prominent was the element of fatigue. The abnormal child was found deficient in intensity and not in extent of psychic function.
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