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 April 19, 2012
| Time: | 12:30-2 p.m. |
| Description: | Author and psychologist Susan Linn, Ed.D., discusses how our media-saturated, marketing-driven culture poses a threat to creative play in the development of children.
Listed as a guaranteed right by the United Nations, creative play is the foundation of learning, creativity and the ability to make meaning of life. Linn will explain why hands-on creative play is so necessary, why we can no longer take play for granted and what we can do to ensure that children are provided with the time, space and tools essential for make-believe.
Linn is an instructor in psychiatry and the associate director of the Media Center at Judge Baker Children's Center at Harvard Medical School. She is also the director and co-founder of the Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood and an award-winning ventriloquist internationally recognized for her pioneering use of puppets for play therapy with children. Her work has been seen on Mister Roger's Neighborhood, The Today Show, and Good Morning America. In 2000, she was appointed to the American Psychological Association's Task Force on Advertising to Children. |
| Location: | Jones Communication Building B (CMB), Studio 4D 4.122 |
| URL: | More about this event... |
| Contact: | David S Junker | 512-471-9466 |
| Sponsor: | Senior Fellows, College of Communication |
| Admission: | Free |
| Categories: | Everyone, Lecture/talk |
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