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Having Fun While Building Brains
and Bettering Bonds!
©Beth Powell, LCSW, 2015
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Low Tech Play Builds Brains and Bonds
In Key Social and Neuro-Behavioral Areas of the Brain
©Beth Powell, LCSW, 2015
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The Limbic System Can Seek Drugs, Alcohol,
Non-Socially Productive
Activities…
to a Dependent/Addictive Level ….
Or Human Attachment
©Beth Powell, LCSW, 2015
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High Tech Play Doesn’t Teach
Human Attachment
Nor Cooperation, Sharing, Reciprocity, or Altruism
(Because It Isn’t Real Life)
©Beth Powell, LCSW, 2015
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The Brain Develops in a Use-Dependent,
Kinesthetic Manner
(Practice Makes Perfect…)
©Beth Powell, LCSW, 2015
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High Tech Play Doesn’t Develop
Base Neuro Systems That the Higher Systems
Build on
If They Aren’t Practiced Enough in Real Life.
©Beth Powell, LCSW, 2015
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Low Tech Play Practices
Primary Social, Human Behaviors and
Base Neuro Functions.
©Beth Powell, LCSW, 2015
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Bibliography
1.
Change Your Brain, Change Your Life, Daniel G. Amen,
M.D. Three Rivers Press, 1998, New York.
2.
Smart Moves: Why Learning is Not All in Your Head,
Carla Hannaford, Ph.D. Great Ocean Publishers, 1995, Alexander, N.C.
3.
The Fabric of Autism: Weaving the Threads into a Cogent
Theory, Judith Bluestone. The HANDLE Institute, 2004,
Seattle, Washington.
4.
The Out-of-Sync Child, Carol Kranowitz, M.A. Skylight
Press, 1998, New York.
5.
What’s Going on in There? How the Brain and Mind
Develop in the First Five Years of Life, Lise Eliot, PhD.
Bantam Books, 1999, New York.
©Beth Powell, LCSW, 2015