Use Block Play to Impact a Child’s Developmental Skill Base
It is almost like a rite of passage for a child to have a pile of blocks somewhere in their toy chest or play area. Blocks, blocks, and more blocks can be wooden, plastic, soft stuffed, on picture cards, as decorative imprints on clothing, and well, just about everywhere!
Play blocks are a very basic early learning toy that may start out for a baby as something that is easy to grab and stick in their mouth. However, as the child grows and develops, a block, when combined with other blocks, turn into a learning experience that helps build other important developmental skills.
There is absolutely no wrong or right way to play with blocks, or even what the definition of what a blockmay be! Every child is unique in the way that they choose to play with and learn from this “toy,” making blocks a valuable tool to encourage open ended play and learning. This is one toy that's been around for centuries, and is definitely something your child should have in their toy box or play area.
Building with blocks provides one of the most valuable learning experiences available for young children. Block play stimulates and promotes learning in all domains of a child’s development which includes intellectual, physical, social-emotional and communication-language.
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Playing with Blocks Builds Learning: Use Block Play to Impact a Child’s Developmental Skill Base
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Judy Benz Duncan has been an Occupational Therapist for over thirty years. She has worked with children from infants to teenagers in numerous settings that included early intervention, pre-school programs, grade school, home health, developmental training centers, and sensory integration clinics.
Judy developed the foundation for designing therapeutic activities and tasks using interactive play and creative imagination to engage the children at a level they could easily relate to while working toward the achievement of their Occupational Therapy program’s functional goals and treatment plan
Judy attended the University of Florida, University of Kansas, and the University of Tennessee. She received New York State approval as a Supplemental Evaluator for OT with early intervention and pre-school students, and has helped develop and start an OT program for families and children in New York. Judy continues to stay up-to-date in the clinical field through mentoring other OT students and new graduates.
She continues to contribute to children, families and professionals everywhere through her professional writing endeavors which include writing books and manuals, managing the therapeutic website, TheraPlay4Kids.com, writing OT blogs and topic-specific articles, working on "interactive story play" book series, writing bi-weekly professional blogs for a pediatric orthopedic surgeon group, a psychiatrist, and an attorney at law. She continues to be an active mentor of new OT graduates, as well as OT students.
