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SOCIAL INTERACTION AND COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE: INTEGRATING THEORY & CLINICAL PRACTICE
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Treatment study focused on use of computer interaction to facilitate speech (left)

Professor DeThorne and two graduate students in Speech-language Pathology (right)

Resources

Group members from Discussion Topic 3 during the Symposium (Aug 6, 10), on the topic of "The Role of Play in Communicative Competence for Adolescents and Adults", recommended the following books on Play:

  1. Brian Sutton-Smith (2001). The Ambiguity of Play. Harvard University Press.
  2. Stuart Brown, with Christopher Vaughan (2009). Play: How it shapes the brain, opens the imagination, and invigorates the soul. New York: The Penguin Group.
  3. Lois Holzman (2009). Vygotsky at Work and Play. Routledge.