Play The Pathway to Language

The best part of play is that everyone can do it! Parents siblings teachers neighbors and clinicians alike can play. (and grandparents!) Emily Humphrey MSDECED in Professional Development Newsletter (February10 2022) Central Institute for the Deaf. St. Louis Missouri. Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for a child play is serious learning. Play is the work of childhood. Fred Rogers Mr. Rogers Neighborhood Frolicking hones physical fitness and cognition; allowing creatures to develop skills needed to survive and reproduce. Dr. Caitlin O'Connell Behavioral Ecologist at Harvard Medical School. The quote is from her article Why Animals Play in Scientific American (August 2019)