Some conditions affecting manipulative play with objects in severely mentally handicapped children
| Autor: | M. R. Phemister, A. M. Richardson, G. V. Thomas |
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| Rok vydání: | 1981 |
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genetic structures Adolescent Novel object Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Child Behavior Infant Stimulus (physiology) Developmental psychology Feedback Play and Playthings Acoustic Stimulation Intellectual Disability Physical Stimulation Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Normal children Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans Female Psychology Child Photic Stimulation |
| Zdroj: | Child: care, health and development. 7(1) |
| ISSN: | 0305-1862 |
| Popis: | Summary Four experiments investigated contact and manipulative activity with play materials in severely handicapped children functioning at the I-2-year-old stage of normal development. Experiment 1 found that many mentally handicapped children were as quick to contact and manipulate a novel object as were comparable normal children and that auditory (or visual) feedback seemed to be effective in sustaining attentive activity with an object. A small minority of the handicapped children, however, were very slow to contact either familiar conventional toys or a novel object. Experiments 2 and 3 found that adding stimulus features such as lights, sounds or bright colours to an object had no consistent effect on the latencies of these ‘slow responders’ to contact the object. Experiment 4 found that the amount and kinds of manipulative play of mentally handicapped children with a range of conventional toys could be similar to that of comparable normal children. The mentally handicapped children differed from the normal children only in that they interacted less with an attendant adult and displayed less frequent representational use of toys in pretend play. The play of both normal and handicapped children was relatively unaffected by whether only a few (four) or many (15) toys were provided. |
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