This now classic text remains a cornerstone of continuing efforts to develop inclusive peer
play programs for children on the autism spectrum. The second edition has been thoroughly …

Ling-Ling Tsao why do children play? Play is not merely about fun; deeper meanings lie
behind playful activities. Many classical theorists in the 19th and early 20th centuries studied …

While the subject of play may seem trivial for behavioral science, EO Wilson noted that
understanding the significance of play is an important challenge facing scholars in these …

Like every other aspect of human development, language development is characterized by
variation. Historically this variation has been largely ignored by students of child language …

A theoretical sequence of cognitive developments is proposed as influencing
representational play and language in the second year of life. Scale analysis supported an …

Most children master the basic structures of their native language by the age of four, together
with an array of cognitive and social accomplishments that appear to be necessary for …

A 1-year follow-up of relationships between language and symbolic gesture in 10 children
with delayed onset of early lexical skills (Thal & Bates, 1988a) is reported Original data are …

Use of communicative gestures in a group of children with delayed onset of expressive oral
vocabulary (late talkers) was compared with such use among normal-language-matched …

In 21 essays on communicative gesturing in the first two years of life, this vital collection
demonstrates the importance of gesture in a child's transition to a linguistic system …

The species on this planet have had millions of years to develop mechanisms for coping
with light, heat, gravity, space, time, cause and effect, and the boundaries of common objects …