The purpose of this study is to explore the meaning of play participation and teacher support for young children with special needs in the practicum of pre-service early childhood special teachers. To this end, focus group interviews and individual in-depth interviews were conducted for pre-service early childhood special teachers. The interview data was analyzed by deriving major concepts through semantic unit analysis and categorizing them. As a result of the analysis, 49 main concepts, 15 subcategories, and 5 upper categories were analyzed, and the specific research results are as follows.
 The meaning of play for children with disabilities and support for play by teachers is as follows: ‘The story of play that is specially created and disappears’, ‘The power that makes play possible: external conditions of play’, ‘Searching for various ways to support play’, ‘Rediscovering the meaning of play-centered curriculum’, ‘New changes needed: suggestions for teacher training course’. This study can be used as educational material for the operation of the 2019 revised Nuri curriculum and support for play in the pre-service early childhood special teachers teacher training course.