Play Conference 2026

March 09: Digital Childhood 
(starting at 8:00 AM EST and available until 7:59 AM EST the following day)

1. Holly Peretz, OT: 
Understanding Experience Poverty Through a Developmental Lens
2. Rachel Gebers, BSC OT: 
“But Roblox Is His Only Interest”: Navigating Screens in Therapy
3. Claire Heffron, MS OTR/L and Lauren Drobnjak, PT: 
Rebuilding Foundations Through Everyday Play
4. Sydney Bassard, MSP, CCC-SLP, and Melanie Batista, OTR/L: 
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Assessing Play

March 10: The Power of Play
(starting at 8:00 AM EST and available until 7:59 AM EST the following day)
 
1. Cari Ebert, MS, CCC-SLP: 
Neurodiversity-Affirming Play in the Early Years
2. Dr. Anne Wolfe, PT, DPT, CLC: 
Utilizing a Strengths-Based Framework That Is Child-Centered and Play-Focused
3. Joanne W. Cazeau, MS CCC-SLP: 
The Power of Pretend Revisited: Building Language and Cognition Through Imagination
4. Rachel Williams, DPT, PT: 
Movement Matters: Reclaiming Development

March 11: Out-of-the-Box Approaches to Play-Based Therapy 
(starting at 8:00 AM EST and available until 7:59 AM EST the following day)

1. Kristine Deworocki, MS, SLP: 
Cooking in Therapy: Why It Works, How to Get Started & A Case Study in Action
2. Dr. Quiara Smith, OTD, MOT, OTR/L, CEIM: 
Groundwork: Play Therapy That Starts on the Floor
3. Dr. Sigourney Weathers, PT, DPT: 
Bounce Into Play: Effective Trampoline Strategies for Therapists
4. Holly Peretz, OT: 
Water-Based Play Therapy

March 12: Practicing Play-Based Therapy
(starting at 8:00 AM EST and available until 7:59 AM EST the following day)

1. Alonna Bondar, M.S.-CCC-SLP and Erin Clarelli, OTR/L: 
Play to Praxis: Building Motor and Speech Planning Through Real Play
2. Cassidy Kutchma, SLP, MA, CCC-SLP: 
Play-Based Therapy for AAC Users
3. Anastasia Bach, PT, DPT: 
Play-Based Therapy for Children With Physical Disabilities
4. Allison Mell, PT, DPT: 
Play-Based Therapy in Early Intervention