At right, Brianna Maisonette, 5, smothered a laugh as her teammates, appearing momentarily confused about what game they were playing, engaged in what seemed to be either a full-court press or a fumble recovery.
The therapists trained the subjects to play the games and to approach and greet, offer to play, engage in reciprocal play, and signal the end of the interaction using three different items: a pack of gum, a Sony Walkman, and a handheld gaming device with Pac-Man or Galaxian.
An excellent, free education where learning is meaningful – with arts, play, engaging projects, and the chance to learn citizenship skills so that children can one day participate — actively and consciously – in this increasingly fragile democracy".
Carol Torgan, Ph.D., a consultant and health educator, says all you need to do is play: Engage in unstructured, creative and spontaneous physical activities reminiscent of child-like play.
"We're not about taking people away from the world in which we live, but children's development is not helped by restricting their access to things like running around in nature and flexible playing, engaging with other people.
Wilder's plays engage the audience in make-believe by having the actors address the spectators directly and by discarding props and scenery.
With each new play Sueko asked four questions: Does the play engage a community that traditionally doesn't attend theater?
Although the girls can run, play peekaboo, engage in finger play shoot'em-ups for 20-minute marathons and covet their older sister's Zhu Zhu pets, they are both also developmentally delayed by about one year.
"The play engages the audience and is cathartic in a profound and disquieting way," Ms. Channer said.
The dance-play engages us in the characters' dilemmas without getting heated or setting itself at an ironic distance.
Actually, Larissa seems to spend most of the play engaged in emotional tussles of one sort or another with the men in her orbit, but she never emerges as a particularly sympathetic or even clearly defined character.
