Quote from Rick * In both individual and group settings the "therapy" was play based. For instance her private therapist would often sit and play with my daughter's Barbies and "teach" language to her in that setting or play games. *
For my daughter, playing with the Fisher Price and Little Tikes doll houses were a big part of "play therapy." At the age of 2, she fell in love with a cute doll house with a pink roof--her favorite thing was the little swing. When she began early intervention, she would run to the house and push the little people in the swings. First she would make the sign for swing, then she would say Whee!, then she would say swing. Later, that house/people/furniture provided a lot of fun for her, and she learned a lot of vocabulary while playing with it--"the mama is sitting in the chair, the girl is swinging, the boy is playing with the dog..." Sigh! So cute! And so much fun, fun, fun!! I recently sold all of that stuff at my yard sale--it was hard to part with it!! Lots of good memories playing with Fisher Price and Little Tikes toys! 
