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Solitary Play Alone

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“I Want to Play Alone” is an article written by Robert J. Coplan, Laura L. Ooi, Linda Rose-Krasnor, and Gabrielle Nocita. It is based on a study that was done to explain to the readers the importance of understanding children that have social disabilities. It explains the many struggles that a child may face when experiencing things such as social withdrawal. This is what happens to a child when they personally remove themselves from the opportunity of interacting with other children. Therefore, the child does not interact with children similar to him/her because they choose not to. Although all forms of social withdrawal result in the child removing themselves from social interactions, each child may have a different motive. The motive may include fear or anxiety of being around others or socially interacting with others, while others may feel unmotivated to socialize with their peers. It is important to understand that all children are unique and their motives and social anxiety will be caused from many different things. …show more content…

By doing so, they were able to figure out how children preferred to engage in a series of different play-based activities. They had the opportunity to work alone or with another partner. They focused the study on “solitary play” vs “peer play”. If the child chose to play alone they considered it solitary play, whereas if the child chose to play with his/her peers they considered it to be peer play. The examiners expected the children that chose to play alone to be the students that had behavioral disorders or disabilities in social engagement with their peers. The next question for the examiners to focus on was whether or not the child was strictly shy, or if they were experiencing a preference to play by themselves, rather than with their

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