{"id":208,"date":"2016-03-15T15:18:57","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T19:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/specialteam\/?p=208"},"modified":"2016-03-15T15:18:57","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T19:18:57","slug":"why-are-play-skills-important-and-how-can-we-build-these-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/specialteam\/2016\/03\/15\/why-are-play-skills-important-and-how-can-we-build-these-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Are Play Skills Important and How Can We Build These Skills?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American Occupational Therapy Association, Inc. (AOTA) has published several tip sheets for \u201cliving life to its fullest\u201d.\u00a0 One article, <a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/lillyl\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1656\/2016\/03\/Building-Play-Skills-Tip-Sheet-Final.pdf\" rel=\"\">Building Play Skills for Healthy Children &amp; Families<\/a>, discusses what is play, why it is important and how to develop these skills.\u00a0 Play is important at all stages of life, but many times it is referred to recreational activities for adults.\u00a0 This article describes how to develop these skills to promote healthy living\u00a0during early childhood (infants, toddlers and preschoolers), elementary age, middle school, high school and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Occupational Therapy Association, Inc. (AOTA) has published several tip sheets for \u201cliving life to its fullest\u201d.\u00a0 One article, Building Play Skills for Healthy Children &amp; Families, discusses what is play, why it is important and how to develop these skills.\u00a0 Play is important at all stages of life, but many times it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1565,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/specialteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/specialteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/specialteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/specialteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1565"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/specialteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/specialteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/specialteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/specialteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/specialteam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}