Child Well-Being through Therapeutic Use of Play by Dr. Tejswi Kamble

1. Child Well-being through
Therapeutic use of Play
- Dr.Tejswi P. Kamble

2. Know your Speaker
• Masters in Occupational Therapy
(Neurosciences) from L.T.M.M.C and L.T.M.G.H.
Registered AIOTA Member
• Completed Masters in Applied Psychology (Clinical);
• Certification in Nutrition and Child Care;
• Certification in Fitness Management

3. Accumulated experience
• Participation in webinars,seminars and conferences
• Working (and work experience in renowned )MULTI-DISCIPLINARY
Child Development Centre at Godrej since 2012
• Visited as Honorary Occupational Therapist NRC,Sion Hospital

4. Volunteer and Organizer
• School visits and volunteering for SLP
• Average 20 hours per week with children and parents
• Conduction Talks and Workshops at various platforms like
Babychakra,parents and teachers

6. Tap maximum benefits of PLAY
• Importance of first 1000 days in a child’s life and early childhood
• Sensitive time
• Quality family time
• Gadget free
• Rapid brain development and wholistic development
• Language development
• Adaptive skills participation

7. • Separation from parents
• Transition in school
• Better in school performance
• Positive self-concept
• Task behaviour and organization
• Fun learning
• Resilience and emotional regulation
• Positive and happy memories
• Early intervention
• Healthy foundation
• Valued Citizens

8. Occupation of Child
Sleep

9. Play is fun and intrinsically driven
"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a
year of conversation."
Plato
National Association for Play Therapy India

10. Play behaviour
• Unoccupied –Play with own body,watches activity in environment
Sensori-motor play
Exploration and cause and effect
Symbolic play and pretense
• Onlooker – Child observes other children rather than events
• Solitary - Independent Play
• Parallel –Play besides rather with

11. • Associated play – Participation without formal organization or division
of labour
Constructive play,dramatic and socio-dramatic play
• Co-operative/Organized Supplementary Play –Sense of belonging and
role in organization,directed by one/two leaders
Games with rules
Sports

12. 16 Types of Play

13. Sensory Rich Environment

14. Occupational Therapy Process
• Observational Skills(playground,home and school)
• History taking and use of scales
• Clinical Reasoning
• Team work approach
• Knowledge on reflexes and developmental sequences
• Principles of human development and maturation
• Activity Analysis
• Parental Engagement

15. Case Studies
• 4 mo. healthy female child
What sources they seek to gain information e.g.Mobile App
How do parents play with child?
Parental approach
Sensory Diet
Meaningful and Just right challenge
Log
Free play and Directed play
Follow-up after interval of time or when needed

16. • 22 mo.male child with difficulty in communication and play behaviour

17. Play for Children;Development for Therapist
1.Learn to Play(Birth- 3 years)
2.Preschool Ready(3-5 years)
3.Neurosciences for kids(5 years and above)
4.Children with Special Needs
5.Intergeneration Bonding

19. Take away
• Know your child’s milestones (like vaccination schedule)
• Note and early report - Regression and Deviancy
• Friendly visit to Paediatrician and Occupational Therapist 3 monthly
or as needed post birth especially in the first year
• Parents to ask “How should I play with my child”?
• Doctors to prescribe PLAY

20. As adults let us guide and rightly challenge
children’s inner drive to enable them to find for
themselves ways to achieve their maximum
potential.
- Tejswi Kamble
• Contact now to book your session
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• otist.tejswi@gmail.com