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Her team developed Joint Attention Symbolic Play Engagement and Regulation (JASPER) therapy as an evidence-based treatment for autistic children. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] JASPER aims to improve joint engagement, social communication, and emotion regulation, and decrease child negativity, while improving parental co-regulation strategies. [ 13 ]
Stage Five: Symbolic Play: Using words, pictures, symbols to communicate an intention, idea. Communicate ideas and thoughts, not just wants and needs. Stage Six: Bridging Ideas: This stage is the foundation of logic, reasoning, emotional thinking and a sense of reality. Most typically developing children have mastered these stages by age 4 years.
Jean Piaget emphasized play as an essential expression of children's feelings, especially because they do not know how to communicate their feelings with words. [3] Play helps a child develop a sense of true self and a mastery over their innate abilities resulting in a sense of worth and aptitude. [4]
Educational interventions attempt to help children not only to learn academic subjects and gain traditional readiness skills, but also to improve functional communication and spontaneity, enhance social skills such as joint attention, develop cognitive skills such as symbolic play, reduce disruptive behavior, and generalize learned skills by applying them to new situations.
The training protocol is based on the principles of applied behavior analysis. [3] The goal of PECS is spontaneous and functional communication. [3] The PECS teaching protocol is based on B. F. Skinner's book, Verbal Behavior, such that functional verbal operants are systematically taught using prompting and reinforcement strategies that will lead to independent communication.
The ICD-10 criteria for childhood autism postulate that abnormal or impaired development is evident before the age of 3 in receptive or expressive language used in social communication, development of selective social attachments or reciprocal social interactions, or functional and symbolic play. The children would also be required to exhibit ...
Symbolic play with specific props or themes is based on exposure therapy techniques and can help children overcome traumatic experiences. [3] Contingency play is an important activity in helping traumatized children feel empowered, [4] and the therapeutic value of separation games such as peek-a-boo has been recognized for decades. [5]
Make believe, also known as pretend play or imaginative play, is a loosely structured form of play that generally includes role-play, object substitution and nonliteral behavior. [1] What separates play from other daily activities is its fun and creative aspect rather than being an action performed for the sake of survival or necessity. [ 2 ]