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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
Peer reviewedJohnson, James E.; Ershler, Joan L. – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1985
Social and cognitive values of different play materials for 21 normal and 21 handicapped preschool children were examined. Analyses showed that handicapped preschoolers exhibited comparable amounts of symbolic play but lower quality of symbolic play than that shown by nonhandicapped preschoolers. Symbolic play by handicapped children depended much…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Disabilities, Play, Preschool Education
Play as the Leading Activity of the Preschool Period: Insights from Vygotsky, Leont'ev, and Bakhtin.
Peer reviewedDuncan, Robert M.; Tarulli, Donato – Early Education and Development, 2003
Discusses ideas from Vygotsky, Leont'ev and Bakhtin to show how fantasy play acts as its own zone of proximal development that contributes to the development of symbolic mediation, the appropriation of social roles and symbols, and the preschool child's preparation for elementary school. (JPB)
Descriptors: Child Role, Cognitive Development, Educational Theories, Language Acquisition
Download full textFein, Greta G. – 1978
This paper examines the interrelationship between children's acquisition and use of symbols and the development of imaginative play. The paper focuses on the use of pretend play as an expression of the child's capacity for symbolic functioning and as an index of intellectual development. The first section of the paper reviews developmental changes…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages
McCune-Nicolich, Lorraine – 1983
Despite considerable work concerning relationships between cognition and language in the second year of life, these relationships remain obscure. Clarification depends on resolution in at least three major areas. First, studies should be expanded beyond the scope of cognitive prerequisite models that have been difficult to conceptualize and that…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cross Sectional Studies
Spencer, Patricia Elizabeth; And Others – 1993
Play behaviors of infants who had normal hearing or were deaf were observed during free play with their mothers, at ages 9, 12, and 18 months. Participants included 15 dyads of children who were deaf and mothers who were not, 15 dyads of children and mothers who were both deaf, and 15 dyads of children and mothers who both had normal hearing.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Deafness, Developmental Stages, Expressive Language
Ives, William, Comp. – 1979
More than 300 citations of books, articles, and conference papers published primarily within the last 20 years are listed with brief descriptions. The works include discussions of developmental theory, art education, art criticism, aesthetics, and philosophy of science as well as experimental studies. Research topics cover aspects of cognition…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Art Appreciation, Art Education, Artists
