Title: LUDI Project - COST ACTION PLAY FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES (Play Development in Children with Disabilities)
Type of the resource: Book/Booklet
Funded by: European Commision,European Science Foundation, European Cooperation of Science and Technology
Authors: Serenella Besio, Aosta, Italy; Daniela Bulgarelli, Aosta, Italy; Vaska Stancheva-Popkostadinova, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
Type of disability: ALL TYPES
Target education level: General
Language(s): English
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OER:
Overall objectives of the inclusive learning resource
Inclusive learning intervention logic: (What are the overall broader objectives to which the action will contribute?)
Research and intervention in play for children with disabilities
Objectively verifiable indicators of achievement: (What are the key indicators related to the overall objectives?)
Sources and means of verification: (What are the sources of information for these indicators?)
The “LUDI” COST Action aims the creation of a novel and autonomous field of research and intervention on play for children with disabilities.
Risks and Challenges:
Specific purpose of the inclusive learning resource
Inclusive learning intervention logic: (What specific objective is the resource intended to achieve to contribute to the overall objectives?)
This book, contributes to a clear distinction between play and play-like activities that, hopefully, will bring to new developments in play studies. This book is introducing why play its important for children with disabilities and which play it' s important for children with disabilities.
Objectively verifiable indicators of achievement: (Which indicators clearly show that the objective of the actions/resource has been achieved?)
Sources and means of verification: (What are the sources of information that exist or can be collected? What are the methods required to get this information?)
This book is the result of the first two-year work of Working Group 1 of the network “LUDI – Play for children with disabilities”. LUDI is an Action (2014-2018) financed by COST; it is a multidisciplinary network of more than 30 countries and almost 100 researchers and practitioners belonging to the humanistic and technological fields to study the topic of play for children with disabilities within the framework of the International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health (WHO, 2001).The principal objective of this book is to bring the LUDI contribution to the important topic of play in children with disabilities, because today an international consensus on the definition of play and disabilities is still lacking. The process of ensuring equity in the exercise of the right to play for children with disabilities requests three actions: to approach this topic through a “common language”, at least all over Europe; to put play at the center of the multidisciplinary research and intervention regarding the children with disabilities; to grant this topic the status of a scientific and social theme of full visibility and recognized authority. Children with disabilities face several limitations in play, due to several reasons: impairments; playgrounds, toys and other play tools that are not accessible and usable; environments and contexts that are not accessible nor inclusive; lack of educational awareness and conventionality; lack of specific psycho-pedagogical and rehabilitative competence; lack of effective intervention methodologies. Moreover, disabled children’s lives are dominated by medical and rehabilitative practices in which play is always an activity aiming to reach an objective or to provoke an improvement; play for the sake of play is considered a waste of time. The concept of play for the sake of play strongly refers to the distinction between play activities and play-like activities. This book, then, contributes to a clear distinction between play and play-like activities that, hopefully, will bring to new developments in play studies.
Risks and Challenges: (Which factors and conditions outside the user's responsibility are necessary to achieve that objective? (external conditions)) Which risks should be taken into consideration?
Expected results on implementation of the resource
Inclusive learning intervention logic: (The results are the outputs envisaged to upscale. What are the expected results?)
The network has three main objectives: a) collecting and systematizing all existing competence and skills: educational researches, clinical initiatives, know-how of resources centers and users’ associations; b) developing new knowledge related to settings, tools and methodologies associated with the play of children with disabilities; c) disseminating the best practices emerging from the joint effort of researchers, practitioners and users.
Objectively verifiable indicators of achievement: (What are the indicators to measure whether and to what extent the action/resource achieves the expected results?)
Sources and means of verification: (What are the available sources of information for these indicators?)
Risks and Challenges: (What external conditions must be met to obtain the expected results on schedule?)
Activities
Inclusive learning intervention logic: (What are the key activities to be carried out and in what sequence in order to reach the expected results?)
This e-book learning recourse is divided into 16 Chapters 1. The need for Play for the Sake of Play
2. Children rights for play, Whoever They are, Wherever They are, The Play Rights of Children and Young People with Disabilities
3. Conceptual Review of Play
4. Conceptual Review of
5. Play in Children with Intellectual Disabilities
6. Play in Children with Hearing Impairments
7. Play in Children with Visual Impairments
8. Play in Children with Communication Disorders
9. Play in Children with Physical Impairments
10. Play in Children with Autism Spectrum and Other Neurodevelopmental Disorders
11. Play with Children with Multiple Disabilities
12. Occupational Therapy Perspective on Play for the Sake of Play
13. Contribution of Special Education to the Promotion of Flay for the Sake of Play.
14. Play in Early Intervention for Children with Disabilities
15. Mainstream Toys for Play
16. Influence of Environmental Factors on Play for Children with Disabilities – An Overview
Objectively verifiable indicators of achievement: (What are the means required to implement these activities, e.g. personnel, equipment, training, studies, supplies, operational facilities, etc.)
Sources and means of verification: (What are the sources of information about action progress?)
Risks and Challenges: (What pre-conditions are required before the use of the resource starts? What conditions outside the user's direct control have to be met for the implementation of the planned activities?)
Attachment:
URL: https://www.ludi-network.eu/ludi-books/
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