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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP have you looked in to the Hanen Method of speech therapy? It may help you to see ways that he is actually engaging with you that can lead to play/reciprocal communication.  The PT's comment that she's concerned about his lack of play is kind of weird, I think.  The main point is developing his communication skills and ability to interact with the environment. OTs (and maybe PTs too) can be a little woo woo and one of the woo things is about "the necessity of play" etc etc.  [/quote]
Please don’t minimize the importance of play. That is how children learn and develop. There is nothing “woo woo” about it. [/quote]

No, your statement just confirmed the woo-woo nature of the "importance of play."  Children learn and develop through many processes, and the fixation on play is just that, a fixation based on romantic notions of how children should be in nature.  Play, like speech, is one activity that can look different in kids for a variety of different reasons -- motor skills issues, vision or hearing loss, coordination, autism, intellectual disability, speech delay, and so on.  It's absurd that the PT would say that the absence of apparent play would be the most worrying thing. [/quote]

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