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The Importance of Play
Top Ten Things to Consider When Buying Toys for Children with Disabilities     Play is the child's response to life -- the way he has of experiencing life.  Play helps the child put all of his experiences together to make sense of objects, events, and they way they are related.  Children imitate the real world of adults through the element of make-believe.  Children play with something because they are interested in it; they are drawn to it for its own sake and their own sakes.  Sometimes children like to watch each other play or prefer to play alone.  Sometimes they play in small groups or in big groups or in regroupings.  Because play is fun it is self-rewarding and the child enjoys learning to learn.  Play contributes to a child's creativity, intellectual growth, social skills and language development.

Play allows the child to:
- Explore
- Discover things and people in his environment
- Be free
- Make decisions and be in control of his environment
- Try things and take risks
- Practice
- Repeat
- Plan
- Concentrate
- Imagine
- Fantasize
-Create

Play helps the child to:
- Build realtionships with other children and adults
- Learn concepts
- Learn about life through imitating adults
- Learn about the world
- Learn new interests
- Use up energy
- Develop in all areas
- Grow in size, control, dexterity, maturity and strength
- Work through feelings
- Experience emotions
- Learn empathy for others
- Understand language
- Communicate verbally
- Communicate through actions
- Develop a positive self concept
- Have a diversion from the routine
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