A sixty-four-item parent-report Games Inventory was constructed to measure play patterns in normal and gender-deviant boys. (Editor)

The most impressive class difference in one-year-old infants revealed by this study was that lower-class infants vocalized considerably less in the playroom than did middle-class infants. (Authors)

Committed to the idea that environment is important to learning, two former teachers now design and build interiors for learning centers. (Author)

Describes a project involving nondirective play therapy conducted in two elementary schools in Kern County, California. (CB)

If children can define right and wrong from their own value system, they'll be better prepared to decide on major problems like drugs and alcohol. (Author/ML)

If schools don't start dealing with emotions honestly and openly, all of us will be responsible for having contributed to the scores of men and women who cannot understand themselves or relate to others without fear. (Author)

Discusses the possibility of utilizing the play focus of children to provide a superior medium for cognitive learning, utilizing parent-teacher team teaching. (AN)

Play can become a truly significant learning experience for all our youngsters if educators will pioneer in making adventure the key word in our elementary school playgrounds. (Author)

Results indicated that the most effective means of intervention was the play therapy in combination with in service consultation for teachers. Play therapy alone was also found to be an effective approach to improve the mental health of the subjects although the relative gains of individual subjects showed more variability than when inserve…

Play is the focus of this article which considers the plight of children without adequate space for games. (RK)