Play Therapy

Play is more often than not considered a leisure activity and therefore considered less important than other activities within life. Although play is considered this way games and play allow children to have fun and interact with a given environment that sometimes don’t require direct input from people, doing this a therapist can interact and relate more effectively within this environment. Within these environments, games help the therapists to diagnose asses and treat children. The games themselves act as tools to the therapist not only as an assessment tool but to help develop the child’s, behaviour, motor skills and visual perception while reducing anxiety and worry that children may have during assessments. The games used for this reason become very important, as they need to target the specific needs that therapists require.