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CHAPTER 5
Educational Play
Experiences for Children
with Cognitive and Physical
Disabilities
Debra Satterfield, Sunghyun Kang
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa, USA
debra815@iastate.edu, shrkang@iastate.edu,
ABSTRACT
Many children are currently diagnosed and living with cognitive and
developmental disabilities such as autism, epilepsy, and cerebral palsy. The Center
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defines developmental disabilities as a
diverse group of severe chronic conditions that are due to mental and/or physical
impairments. Individuals with developmental disabilities have problems with major
life activities such as language, mobility, learning, self-help, and independent living.
Therefore, there is a critical need to ...