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Teaching Play Skills to Children with Disabilities: Research-Based Interventions and Practices

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Play is a critical milestone that contributes to the learning and development of young children in multiple ways and is essential to their well-being. Play is also considered as a central component to promote school readiness and incorporates pre-literacy, language and numeracy skills. However, play deficits seem to be acutely apparent in some children with disabilities. This highlights the need to come to terms with the best evidence and explore the promising practices related to improved play skills for young children with disabilities. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of play-based learning in early childhood and early childhood special education and provide research-based recommendations on teaching play skills to young children with disabilities.

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Movahedazarhouligh, S. Teaching Play Skills to Children with Disabilities: Research-Based Interventions and Practices. Early Childhood Educ J 46, 587–599 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10643-018-0917-7

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