Early Childhood Intervention Essay

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Toys, Games and Early Childhood Intervention
Guidelines for designing useful toys in psycho-pedagogical therapy
Toys, Games and Early Childhood Intervention
This publication is part of the results obtained from the project "Early Childhood Intervention through toys and games.
Guidelines for designing useful toys in psycho-pedagogical therapy", funded by IMPIVA (ERDF funds) and developed by AIJU in partnership with CDIAT-APADIS.
This guide includes information about problems in Early Childhood Intervention, the needs and requirements that play activities should meet and the characteristics that materials in this field of childhood intervention should have.
As for Early Childhood Intervention, psychologists, pedagogues, speech therapists, physiotherapists, psycho-pedagogues and other professionals find in toys and games a key tool in therapeutic intervention since the child's motivation and enjoyment play a fundamental role in this kind of sessions.
The aim of this project is to analyse the toys that are being currently used in Early Childhood Intervention and to lay down some guidelines to design toys that specially envisaged to be used in therapy with children aged 0-2 years, as well as to study other ways in which experts and parents can use toys.
Finally, we intend to make industries aware of the importance of creating new products in this field.
Index:
What is Early Childhood Intervention?
1
Population susceptible to Early Childhood Intervention 2
General objectives in Early Childhood Intervention 4
Importance of play in Early Childhood Intervention 6
Research on toys for Early Childhood Intervention 8
How to improve child development through games 9
0 - 6 months 10
6 - 12 months 14
12 - 18 months 18
18 - 24 months 22
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