Developmental Play Assessment for Practitioners (DPA-P) Guidebook and Training Website: Project Play

Project Play offers a comprehensive assessment of naturally occurring play activities to evaluate young children's developmental progress accurately, supporting interventions in play-based cognition, language, motor, social-emotional, and self-help skills. The DPA-P guidebook and training website provide an overview of the assessment, categories of play, administration, coding, and scoring, and how to develop a plan of activities for intervention. It is valuable for practitioners in various educational and therapeutic settings, including early intervention personnel, speech-language pathologists, physical therapists, occupational therapists, and psychologists.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 114 pages
Publication date: 16 March 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Project Play offers a comprehensive assessment of naturally occurring play activities to evaluate young children's developmental progress accurately, allowing for timely interventions. This assessment can be utilized by practitioners in various educational and therapeutic settings, supporting developmental growth through play-based interventions in cognition, language, motor, social-emotional, and self-help skills.

The guidebook and training website provide a thorough introduction to effectively using the assessment with infants, toddlers, and young children with disabilities or at risk for disabilities. The comprehensive guidebook offers an overview of the DPA-P and Project Play, defines play, discusses the relevant background literature, and explains the importance of this assessment. Clear guidance is provided to practitioners and family members to understand play, evaluate play, and utilize play for different purposes.

The guidebook encompasses various aspects, including:

An introduction to the comprehensive training website and its functionalities.
Understanding the categories of play assessed and their corresponding definitions.
Guidance on administering the assessment and preparing a comprehensive summary evaluation of a child's performance.
Detailed instructions for the coding sheets and scoring system.
Guidelines for constructing sets of toys.
Strategies for interpreting the results of the DPA-P evaluation to develop an intervention plan.
Explanations on how to evaluate activities at different stages of absence, basic, emergence, and mastery.

By utilizing the DPA-P assessment and following the provided guidance, practitioners can gain valuable insights into a child's play behavior and develop targeted interventions to promote their developmental progress.

Weight: 226g
Dimension: 276 x 219 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367553593