7 Benefits of Play

Play skills are an important part of language development and to kids, play is work! Let’s talk about the power and benefits of play.

Play helps children develop:

1. Speech and language skills: articulation, expressing ideas, following directions, turn taking, vocabulary

2. Social skills and social relationships: play, conversation, friendship

3. Emotional awareness and perspective taking skills: thinking about others and how they might feel

4. Imagination, exploration, and abstract thinking: encouraging curiosity and critical thinking

5. Problem solving and coping skills: learning how to manage feelings and situations

6. Fine and gross motor skills: movement, balance, dexterity

7. Boundaries, safety, and risk taking: exploring what we should and should not do and understanding consequences

   
   

Play is a powerful cultivator of speech, receptive, expressive and pragmatic language skills as well as motor, cognitive, and safety development!