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Voyat, Gilbert – New York University Education Quarterly, 1982
Explores the role of symbolic play in the cognitive and psychic development of the normal child and describes the autistic child. Reviews a model treatment program for autism developed at the City College of New York, discussing the therapeutic role of symbolic play in that model. (Author/MJL)
Descriptors: Autism, Children, Cognitive Development, Imagination

Nowak-Fabrykowski, Krystyna – Journal of Creative Behavior, 1992
This paper discusses links among the process of creativity, symbolization, and learning. The importance of symbolization in thinking, in school learning, in child development, and in the behavior of creative learners is stressed. (DB)
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Cognitive Processes, Creative Development

Malley, James C. – Journal of Humanistic Education and Development, 1987
Advocates the use, in the classroom, of a photograph of the planet Earth taken from space. Sees it as a powerful symbol for a unified world and its presence in the classroom as providing an expanded awareness of the unitary nature of the students' global home: one planet, populated by one human family. (KS)
Descriptors: Children, Classroom Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Materials
Kliewer, Christopher; Biklen, Douglas – Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps (JASH), 2001
Qualitative stories garnered from six students with mental retardation and published autobiographical and biographical stories by people with disabilities or their parents are used as a "research synthesis" to describe an intimate, caring relationship which is of central importance when constructing a non-traditional approach to literacy that…
Descriptors: Children, Elementary Education, Helping Relationship, Interpersonal Relationship
Salomon, Gavriel; Gardner, Howard – 1983
The "symbol systems approach" to the study of computers in education that is outlined avoids the pitfalls of past media research--particularly research on the effects of television on children's learning and knowledge--and asserts that media can be usefully distinguished in terms of the symbol systems they present and the kinds of…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Computers, Elementary Secondary Education