Play as Engagement and Communication

A multidisciplinary and varied perspective on play, Play as Engagement and Communication continues the stimulating and informative volumes in the Play & Culture Studies series. Students, play scholars, and play practitioners will gain information from groundbreaking studies, philosophical treatises, and in-depth reviews of current knowledge on child-child, child-adult, and child-animal play. Play & Culture Studies is the main publication of The Association for the Study of Play. Volume 10 includes such topics as student experiences with child play in hospitals, ethnographic studies of preschool play, and the connection between children and animals. The primary focus of the papers in this volume is to reflect on the close relationship between play and the process of engaging and communicating with others in different contexts.

She is an associate professor of communication sciences and disorders at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. She has held faculty and clinical positions in four countries. Her research interests are in language, play, narrative skills, and social interaction in families, between mothers and infants, and child peer interaction. Her recent work has focused on humor and language play in social interaction. She has been actively involved in local adolescent parenting programs and the implementation of clinical and educational support for language and literacy intervention with high-risk families.