Play with Purpose: Using Play Styles to Guide Activity Selection in Early Intervention
This course explores how clinicians can use children's preferred play styles to guide activity selection, material choice, and communication intervention in early childhood therapy. Participants will learn how play styles emerge through object play and social participation and how to use this framework to create more engaging, neurodiversity-affirming, and individualized sessions.
Speaker
Jill Lese, MS, CCC-SLP, is a pediatric Speech-Language Pathologist and owner of Early Bird Speech Therapy PLLC based in Brooklyn, NY. She specializes in working with early intervention and preschool-aged children, providing home- and community-based services grounded in play. Jill has advanced training in Natural Language Acquisition (NLA), Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cueing (DTTC), and PROMPT, and she utilizes a total communication approach tailored to each child's needs. Her clinical work integrates spoken language, sign language, and both high- and low-tech AAC within child-led, sensory-informed activities.
Disclosure: Jill receives compensation for this presentation.
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Who this course is for
Every minute is written for working clinicians, educators, and families. You walk away with real-world tools to try with your next learner, not abstract theory.
Speech-Language Pathologists
Early Intervention Specialists
Parents & Caregivers
Pediatricians
After this course
What you’ll walk away with.
You leave with concrete skills and frameworks you can apply in your next session, classroom, or family visit, not just ideas to think about later.
Earn your CEUs
Attend the full course and pass the post-session assessment at 80% or higher. Your 0.1 ASHA CEUs are reported to ASHA when you opt in on the assessment.
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You’ll be able to
Describe the role of play in supporting communication, engagement, and language development in early intervention.
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You’ll be able to
Identify play styles by analyzing the interaction between object play and social participation.
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You’ll be able to
Select materials aligned with a child's preferred play style to support communication goals.
The full 1 hour
Your learning path.
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0:00 to 0:05 Welcome and goals
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0:05 to 0:20 Play styles
what they are, how they show up in object play and social participation - 3
0:20 to 0:45 Applying play style to activity selection, materials, and communication intervention
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0:45 to 0:58 Examples and quick application
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0:58 to 1:00 Wrap-up and Q&A
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