Play Therapy Can Help Kids Speak the Unspeakable [nytimes.com]
Play is the language of children — which is why play therapy can help kids speak the unspeakable. Dee Ray doesn’t learn how children feel by listening to their words. Ray, a researcher and counselor in Texas, learns by watching them play. She directs the Center for Play Therapy at the University of North Texas and often works in schools, where she sections off a 10 feet by 10 feet area in a classroom and fills the space with toys — a child sized kitchenette, puppets, a bop bag that a child...