3 Practical Takeaways

How Can You Promote Play in Children with Autism?

Do you work with children with autism? How can you promote play skills? 

 

I love that newer articles are focusing on participation and occupation such as play, instead of splinter skills.Here are #3Practical Takeaways from a Systematic Review by Kuhaneck (2020), of occupational, physical and speech therapy interventions that work, in the order of strength of evidence (#1 having the highest). Incorporate 1 or all 3 in your interventions.

 

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Reference:

Kuhaneck, H., Spitzer, S. L., & Bodison, S. C. (2020). A systematic review of interventions to improve the occupation of play in children with autism. OTJR: occupation, participation and health, 40(2), 83-98.

More Practical Takeaways

#3PracticalTakeaways from Laverdure and Beisbier (2021) includes effective interventions for teaching ADL, play and leisure skills via occupational and physical therapy.
#3PracticalTakeaways for determining whether we are providing evidence-based interventions, based on the work of Bailes et al (2021).
#3PracticalTakeaways based on the systematic review of Jackman et al (2020) on the effectiveness and cost of different upper limb training approaches for children with cerebral palsy

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