Abstract
Interest In the play of children has increased in recent years. Public Law 99-457 calls for assessment and services to infants and toddlers with special needs. In a search for ways to assess these young children, program staff have found observations of play to be useful in assessment and intervention. The article reviews instruments and procedures designed to observe attributes of play. The functional use of play as a means of observing a child's developmental skills in all domains is also discussed. A model is proposed for combining the observation of the domain of play development with observations during play of development in traditional domains of motor, language, cognitive, and social behavior. The model provides a sample of behavior that is extremely comfortable for the child and the family yet enables staff to see the child's use of domain-specific skills that are critical for ecologically valid assessment.
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