The State of Play Science
The National Institute for Play
and
Touch the Future
are proud to present a ground breaking survey of the latest neuroscience documenting the fundamental need and benefits of positive affect states, that is, what every child knows as PLAY.
For the first time we have gathered the scientific, brain based evidence that parents, teachers and child care professionals have needed to counter the elimination of play from tens of thousands of schools across the country.
A live Tele-Conference with Stuart Brown, MD and other Play-Brain specialists is being organized for Saturday April 16. More on this as it develops.
Alternative Education Resource is also participating in the tel-conference EducationRevolution.org
Generous support from PlayCore Corporation, the manufacture of innovative outdoor playgrounds, and a proactive advocate for PLAY, allows us to offer this must see program at NO COST (you cover shipping and handling).
Stuart Brown, MD, host and founder of The National Institute for Play describes years of research correlating play deprivation in childhood with anti social and extreme forms of violence, even mass murder.
Pioneering researcher Jeff Burgdorf, PhD, describes how people with low positive affective (play) states, have a five to ten year shorter life span than do people with high positive experiences. That makes play deprivation a greater health risk that obesity or smoking.
World renown neuroscientist Jaak Paknsepp, PhD, shares his revolutionary approach to the study of emotions comparing it to that of quantum physics. Implied in his research are serious concerns over the mass drugging of our children, what he calls a national experiment that ignores animal research with lifelong consequences.
Play researcher Joe Frost, Professor Emeritus, explores the continuing disappearance of play beginning shortly after World War II and links this to the epidemic rise of obesity and other health risks.
Joan Abrahamson, JD, PhD, describes why The National Institute for Play considers regular play as essential as eating and sleeping, why play deprivation is as serious as sleep deprivation.
Scott Eberle, PhD summarizes the enormous and universal benefits of play states and how it impacts learning and performance lifelong.
Steve Sivi, PhD expands on Stuart’s and Jaak’s research by further developing the neurological an emotional reasons why play deprivation predisposes an individual to violence.
NO COST (you cover shipping and handling).
A must see..
Yippee
Michael Mendizza
