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, MSDE,CED 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)