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Hustedt, Deborah Drain, Rubie Eubanks, Christina Joe, Imani Lawson, and Annette Pic  \nThe authors examine the relationships between home play and learning—measured by reading and teaching practices at home—among low-income families, including those with mental health issues. Based on a large database from the Family Map Inventory, a screening tool for home visiting programs, the authors’ findings revealed that play-related concerns such as play materials, home play, and the variety of play away from home had significant impact. They conclude that care givers who provide children with more play opportunities both at home and away from home tend to read books with children more frequently and to teach them more basic academic skills.  \nThis suggests that early play interactions can contribute to early learning and implies that intervention programs such as Early Head Start and homevisiting programs focusing on play may boost a family’s resilience and add value to existing services. Key words: infant and toddler play; learning and play; mental health and play; play in low-income families  \nIntroduction  \nScholars generally believe play to be essential and critical in child development, but some have questioned and challenged the effectiveness of play as a learning mechanism (Lillard et al. 2013; Lugo-Gil and Dang 2020; Whitebread 2019). Researchers studying play as a teaching strategy often compare it to their direct instruction aimed at targeted outcomes and with their experimental designs. For example, some have compared play to literacy instruction (Dickinson et al. 2019) and math instruction (Kotsopoulos et al. 2015), as well as to other types of direct instruction. Perhaps because play is a broad concept, one that represents various types of activities regardless of their benefits for academic learning, the breadth of play in the academic learning process is less likely to be  \n136  \nAmerican Journal of Play, Volume 15, number 2 © 2023 by The Strong [Contact Myae Han at myaehan@udel.edu](Contact Myae Han at myaehan@udel.edu)  \ncaptured in experimental studies. To do so, researchers would have to include a range of play activities and learning outcomes to show the effects of play.  \nA recent review of the impact of play on child development revealed that qualitative and quasi-experimental approaches proved the most frequently used methods in play research (Lai et al. 2018) and suggested that future studies should consider different approaches to provide wide scientific evidence of the impact of play. Weisberg, Hirsh-Pasek, and Golinkoff (2013) also called for amore holistic approach to the study of play and learning, moving away from traditional empirical approaches to different statistical methods that can embrace the full variety and complexity of play. Some scholars have also consistently criticized the small sample sizes in play research (Lillard et al. 2013), and we do indeed need studies with larger samples.  \nThe study described in this article aims to fill the gaps in the current literature about play and learning research by including various aspects of play practice (play materials, home play, variety of play), by examining the relationship between play and learning in home contexts instead simply of clinical and school contexts, by using a large sample size of low-income families and by includingthe mental health status of care givers. This study took a different approach to understanding the relationship between play and learning by focusing on home learning practices rather than on outcomes, as other studies have explored. We sought to understand how play relates to learning practices that are linked with future learning outcomes. For example, if play influences language-learning practice, we can hypothesize it might in turn influence language outcomes.  \nFamily systems theory constitutes","cbCaijE1UAtRhoOr","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijE1UAtRhoOr","pdf",266629,22,"English","# Introduction\n## Parent-Child Interactions","[{\"question\":\"What does the study examine about play and learning?\",\"answer\":\"It examines relationships between home play and home learning practices measured through reading and teaching activities among low-income families, including those with caregiver mental health issues.\"},{\"question\":\"Which play-related factors showed significant impact?\",\"answer\":\"Play materials, home play, and the variety of play away from home were identified as significant factors influencing learning practices.\"},{\"question\":\"How might the findings guide early intervention programs?\",\"answer\":\"The study suggests that early play interactions can support early learning and that interventions such as Early Head Start or home visiting programs focusing on play may enhance family resilience and value existing services.\"}]","Relationships between Play and Learning Practices among Low-Income Families | PDF",1792073514,55]