background and aim: although play seems to be a simple concept, it is complex and varies according to individual experiences. play is a process that follows no rule. it is a spontaneous, funny, flexible, completely attractive, vital, and challenging behavior that aims at no goal. pretend play starts in childhood since 18 months. the play is a potential source for assessment of academic skills a...

Resumo Introdução O brincar é uma importante ocupação infantil e sua avaliação deve fazer parte do processo terapêutico para analisar o desempenho ocupacional da criança planejar intervenções embasadas nessa ocupação. A Avaliação Brincar de Faz Conta Iniciado pela Criança (ChIPPA) já foi traduzida, adaptada transculturalmente validada a população brasileira. Objetivo Realizar revisão escopo sob...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study is to establish the test-retest reliability of the Child-Initiated Pretend Play Assessment (ChIPPA) (Stagnitti, 2002a; Stagnitti, Unsworth, & Rodger, 2000). METHOD The first author rated 38 preschool children ages 4 and 5 years (4 with developmental delay and 34 typically developing) on the ChIPPA. The ChIPPA employs conventional play materials and unstruct...

Background: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental with 2 main symptoms of social and communication deficits stereotyped behaviors. Pretend play theory mind (ToM) have an essential role in child’s cognitive development. Objectives: In this study, different variables pretend levels ToM were examined groups typical children autism. Methods: case-control observational 45 18 autism ...

Although pretend play has long been linked to children's normative cognitive development, inconsistent findings call for greater rigor in examining this relation (Lillard et al., 2013). Spontaneous pretend play is often impacted in atypical development, notably in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Since ASD traits exist along a continuum in the general population, investigating how pretend play v...

Pretend play is a form of playful behavior that involves nonliteral action. Although on the surface this activity appears to be merely for fun, recent research has discovered that children's pretend play has connections to important cognitive and social skills, such as symbolic thinking, theory of mind, and counterfactual reasoning. The current article first defines pretend play and then review...

Our goal in this study was to examine whether controlled pretense signal presentation by an adult promoted pretend play behavior in toddlers. Seventy-two Japanese toddlers (24 toddlers in the 18-month-old group, 24 toddlers in the 24-month-old group, and 24 toddlers in the 30-month-old group) participated in one of two experimental conditions: signal and signal-less. In the signal condition, th...