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Courses Why Play Matters: Embodied Experiences That Build Thinking, Language, Literacy, and Relationships in Early Childhood Why Play Matters: Embodied Experiences That Build Thinking, Language, Literacy, and Relationships in Early Childhood
In this talk play and play development will be described, as well as the role it plays in thinking, language literacy and social relationships.
Speaker Name
Carol Westby, PhD, CCC-SLP
Course Objectives
By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
Explain the role of play in embodied cognition
Describe play development in the presymbolic period
Describe the role of symbolic play dimensions in thinking, language, literacy, and social relationships
Carol Westby, PhD, CCC-SLP
Dr. Carol Westby, PhD, CCC-SLP, is a consultant for Bilingual Multicultural Services in Albuquerque, NM and holds an affiliated appointment in Communication Disorders at Brigham Young University in Provo, UT. She is a fellow of the American-Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), has received the Honors of ASHA and the Kleffner Lifetime Clinical Achievement Award, and holds Board Certification in Child Language and Language Disorders. Dr. Westby has received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Geneva College and the University of Iowa & Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology and the ASHA Award for Contributions to Multicultural Affairs. She has published and presented nationally and internationally on screen time in the 2 st century, theory of mind, narrative/expository development and facilitation, adverse childhood experiences/trauma, qualitative methodologies, assessment and facilitation of written language, metacognition/executive function/ADHD, and issues in assessment and intervention with culturally/linguistically diverse populations. Dr. Westby has a BA in English from Geneva College and an MA and PhD in Speech Pathology from the University of Iowa.
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Time-Ordered Agenda
Time
Session / Activity
0-5 minutes
Intro to Play and ABA
5-10 minutes
Play as embodied cognition
10-30 minutes
Exploratory and functional play in the presymbolic period
30-35 minutes
Cognitive and linguistic changes between the presymbolic and symbolic periods
35-55 minutes
The role of symbolic play dimensions in thinking, language, literacy, and social relationships
55-60 minutes
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