Do children play to practise or do they practise to play?

Play is an important area of life in a child's everyday life. Play is often described as a complex and multidimensional phenomenon that has a significant function for the overall development of children cognitively, linguistically, emotionally and socially. Children with disabilities have the same right to play as other children, but there are several obstacles that limit their ability to play.

These barriers include inaccessible facilities and environments, negative attitudes and inadequate strategies and social inclusion programs that limit the lives of children with disabilities. Is the opportunity for play an obvious goal in the context of habilitation?

To answer this question, various professionals' views on the importance of play in children and youth rehabilitation and children with different experiences of disabilities and experiences of play in the rehabilitation context are highlighted.

Project leader: Maria Prellwitz, Associate Professor
Collaborators: Birgitta Nordström, Senior Lecturer, RN.

• The project has ended. Read more about the results here. External link.