Inclusion: outdoor play - To the bridge

Nursery World, 12 September 2007

In a purpose-built playground, disabled children are active learners rather than passive observers, writes Crispin Andrews explains.

Put a very young child with severe physical or learning impairments in a traditional style playground and it is likely they won't get very much out of it. There will be hardly anything to engage them, not a lot that they can access and very little the child can learn from. To them this sort of playground is nothing more than a big empty space and an even bigger waste of time. Design an environment within which they feel comfortable, inspired and able...

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