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Connecting Play and Language to Literacy and Social-Emotional Development: Assessment and Treatment for Young Children


Speaker:
Carol Westby, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-CL, ASDCS
Duration:
6 Hours 21 Minutes
Copyright:
May 20, 2021
Publisher:
PESI Inc.
Product Code:
RNV063325
Media Type:
DVD - Also available: Digital Seminar

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Description

Play is the window into—and the foundation for— the development of language, text comprehension, cognition and social-emotional skills in children. It’s essential to know children’s developmental play level if we are to select appropriate play interventions. Yet there are few tools that allow the clinician or teacher to look at these skills in a holistic way.

The Westby Play Scale gives us just that—it’s a unique assessment tool that allows us to evaluate these skills while children play!

Watch Dr. Westby, internationally-renowned expert on play assessment and development and language-literacy relationships, and learn to effectively use the Westby Play Scale to assess children’s symbolic play skill level, language skills and how they use language. Supported by 40 years of evidence-based research, the scales will help you set goals at the right developmental level for all the young children (birth-5) you work with.

Don’t miss this chance to learn from Dr. Westby, an icon in the field who will teach you how to integrate the play practices and play strategies essential to promote:

  • Higher-level thinking, problem-solving and creativity
  • A range of language skills
  • The foundations for developing text comprehension
  • Awareness of temporal, cause-effect and social relationships
  • Empathy, which is important for interpreting and responding appropriately to the needs, desires, and roles of others
  • Interactions essential for social-emotional development
  • Ability to self-regulate, organize and monitor their own behavior so they can become independent, self-motivated learners

Purchase today and learn an approach that targets skills at appropriate developmental levels for children, builds language simultaneously, is highly transferable and most of all, is fun!

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Carol Westby, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-CL, ASDCS's Profile

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Carol Westby, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-CL, ASDCS, is an internationally-renowned expert on play assessment and development in children. She is the developer of the renowned Westby Symbolic Play Scale, a research-based scale used to assess children's social and play skills. Dr. Westby has written and implemented projects to support personnel preparation, clinical service, and research, including Project PLAY (Play and Language Attunement in Young Children), that trains caregivers to increase the development of play, theory of mind, and language.

Dr. Westby is a fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), is Board-Certified in Child Language and Literacy Disorders, and has received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Geneva College and the University of Iowa's Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, the ASHA Award for Contributions to Multicultural Affairs, the Honors of ASHA, and the Kleffner Lifetime Clinical Career Award.

Dr. Westby has published and presented nationally and internationally on topics including play, autobiographical memory, theory of mind, language-literacy relationships, narrative/expository development and facilitation, adverse childhood experiences, screen time, trauma, metacognition/executive function, and assessment and intervention with culturally/linguistically diverse populations. She has consulted with the New Mexico Preschool for the Deaf, which employs a play-based curriculum.

Dr. Westby has been a visiting professor at Flinders University in South Australia where she worked on a language/literacy curriculum, and at Brigham Young University where she consulted on SEEL, a systematic and engaging emergent literacy program that employs playful practice. She is a consultant for Bilingual Multicultural Services in Albuquerque, NM and holds an affiliated appointment in communication disorders at Brigham Young University in Provo, UT. Dr. Westby is certified as an Autism Spectrum Disorder Clinical Specialist (ASDCS).

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Carol Westby has employment relationships with Brigham Young University and Bilingual Multicultural Services. She receives royalties as a published author. Carol Westby receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Carol Westby is a member of American Board of Child Language and Language Disorders.


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Objectives

  1. Determine how play deficits cause intellectual, social, emotional and physical harm to children.
  2. Articulate the development and interrelationships of cognition, play, language, social-emotional skills and literacy.
  3. Assess a child’s play development and language skills using the Westby Play Scale.
  4. Recommend appropriate activities and strategies to develop young children’s language/social-emotional/play skills at each level.
  5. Employ play to promote the cognitive, language, social-emotional and self-regulation skills that underlie children’s effective social interactions and literacy comprehension.
  6. Establish how play can facilitate self-regulation, empathy and the foundations for reading comprehension.

Outline

Frameworks for Understanding Play-Cognitive-Social-Literacy Relationships
  • What’s happened to play?
  • A dynamic systems approach to learning through play
  • The World Health Organization’s International Classification of Functioning
  • Nature and nurture foundations for play
Westby Play Scale
An Assessment Framework to Evaluate and Treat Children’s:
  • Precursor skills and early language development
  • Development of pretend play and language development
Emergent Presymbolic Play (Birth - 17 months)
  • Attuned interactional play
  • Joint attention/referencing in play
  • Functional toy use and coordinated interactions in play
Development of Pretend Play Dimensions (17 months – 5 years)
  • Relationship of Play Dimensions to Language and Literacy
  • Theory of Mind Dimension (understanding thoughts and feelings of self and others)
  • Decontextualization Dimension (reduced use of props in play)
  • Thematic Dimension (from familiar to novel pretend themes)
  • Organization Dimension (sequencing and planning of play)
Develop Pretend Play Skills to Set the Foundations for Language and Literacy
  • Extend play themes, prop use and sequences within play
  • Advance higher-level thinking, problem-solving and creativity
  • Build interactions essential for social-emotional development
  • Develop theory of mind through demonstrating the perspectives of others in the play scenarios
  • Build literate-style language through play
  • Use play as the nexus into developing oral narrative skills
  • Phonological awareness skills through playful practices

Target Audience

  • Speech-Language Pathologists
  • Speech-Language Pathology Assistants
  • Psychologists
  • School Psychologists
  • Occupational Therapists
  • Occupational Therapy Assistants
  • Reading Specialists
  • Head Start Staff
  • Early Childhood
  • Special Education Staff
  • Learning Disabilities Specialists
  • Preschool Teachers
  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Other Helping Professionals who Work with Children (Birth - 5 Years)

Reviews

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Overall:      4.9

Total Reviews: 27

Comments

Brooke S

"This course was great! I would highly recommend it to others. "

Sandra H

"excellent content, presenter very knowledgeable, great assessment tools to use for caseload"

Laurie E

"Amazing. I was very impressed by this live seminar. Such wonderful presentation of very important information."

Sheri L

"This was a wonderful webinar. Thank you!"

Laura O

"Great class! I learned a lot."

Linda W

"Thank you very much for this presentation"

Jennifer D

"I appreciated how Carol Westby engaged the participants in a variety of ways. For example, she started talking about her raising ducks, which was an innovative and attention-getting way of making her point. It helped me refocus on the material and stay engaged (similar to a Brain Break that educators do so often with students). I can't say enough positive things about this learning."

Elaine H

"Excellent!!"

Edith B

"I requested some handouts that were emailed to me immediately. Thank you!"

Amy S

"None at this time."

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