Issues

The guest editors for the Special Section on Play offer suggestions for how to enhance occupational therapy’s voice in the study and promotion of play as a primary lifelong occupation.

The study findings provide data that support the influence of ideational praxis skills on the play skills and playfulness of autistic children.

This study found that infant prematurity may affect the accuracy of parent reports, or recall, of tummy time in the home versus a practitioner directly observing infant tummy time.

This study adds to the limited research on play-based therapy programs in special school settings for children with an IQ of less than 70.

This study contributes to the body of knowledge on what constitutes adult play as well as the experiences of adults during preferred play activities.

Infants who were later diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) were found to have differences in early play behaviors compared to infants who were not later diagnosed with ASD.

Children with challenges in sensory processing and integration made significant changes related to occupational performance following OT intervention, and goal achievement was sustained over time.

This pilot study offers promising evidence that supports the use of modified single joystick–operated ride-on toys for children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy.

This study explored how parent and teacher caregivers supported children (both with and without disabilities) during a therapeutic playgroup at an early childhood center.

The findings of this study show that the Factors Affecting Tolerance for Risk in Play Scale (FAC–TRiPS) has utility for practitioners who want to explore parents’ beliefs about and tolerance for their children’s participation in risky play.

Changing a playground’s physical and social environment can create better places for kids to play.

The authors discuss the process of properly citing the just-right challenge, a core concept in occupational therapy, and highlight the importance of thorough historical scholarship.

This study supports the understanding of how the physical environment shapes children’s outdoor play.

This study found that autistic preschoolers face physical and social barriers to outdoor play and that they need parents, schools, and communities to create supportive and inclusive play environments and opportunities for freedom of expression.

The Scale of Parental Playful Attitude (PaPA) assesses parents’ self-perceptions of their playfulness when playing with their child.

This State of the Science article seeks to increase awareness regarding the occupational therapy profession’s contributions and to situate those contributions within the larger body of literature on play while also promoting further study of play as an occupation.

The study results show that occupational therapists can reliably use the Bead Maze Hand Function test to assess a child’s hand function.

The results of this pilot study highlight the promising potential of the TELE-self-GEN intervention for improving everyday memory challenges for people with multiple sclerosis.

The authors used the Gap–Kalamazoo Communication Skills Assessment Form with occupational therapy interns in a medical center psychiatry department to assess how effectively they interviewed clients with mental illness.

This is the first study to examine disparities in access to inpatient psychiatric occupational therapy in the Veterans Health Administration.

This article adds to the literature on administrative supports for clinical and quality improvement research by illustrating a specific example of how documentation of dose can be shared from one institution to another.

This is the first study to review the effectiveness of the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM) to determine the success of occupational therapy interventions for people with a frozen shoulder.

This study explored how autistic young adults describe their emotions and suggests ways that occupational therapists can be more attuned to the emotional dimension of occupation when working with autistic clients.

This report is the first to describe a telehealth adaptation of Ayres Sensory Integration^®.

This Evidence Connection article presents a case report of a person with dementia who is transitioning to a new setting, including a description of the occupational therapy evaluation and intervention process.