Introduction: Play and free time are child's basic activity that enables social, cognitive and physical development. Pretend play is play in which the child determines the properties of objects, plays with them with purpose and uses certain symbols. When a child develops the ability to logically connect play actions, the very quality and complexity of pretend play increases, which reflects the child's ability to think abstractly, affects the storytelling ability and semantic organization of preschool children. Purpose: The purpose of this diploma work is to translate the assessment form of the ChIPPA from English to Slovenian, to conduct a pilot study on the use of ChIPPA in Slovenian four-year-olds and compare their results with the Australian normatives. RV: Are the results of the assessment of pretend play on Slovenian children comparable to the normative data obtained on Australian children? RV: Are the standardized assessment toys originally designed for Australian children suitable for use with Slovenian children? Methods: A pilot study was conducted. With the permission of the author, a translation of the evaluation form was carried out, which has been done by the mentor and me. In the empirical part of the thesis, the assessment was carried out in ten neurotypical four-year-olds, five of whom were boys and five girls. Assessments were conducted in the months of September and October 2022. Results: All cases assesed in study are comparable to Australian standards in conventional imginative play session. In the symbolic play session, there were three cases that were below the average. With the exception of two cases, all children assessed in the study had fewer subject substitutions than Australian norms. The children quickly recognized the toys used in the assessment and liked to play with them. Discussion and conclusion: Children had no problems with conventional imaginative play. The three lower scores of the total score of elaborate actions were obtained by the boys. With the exception of two girls, all children had lower results of object substitution, which indicates the child's inability to get involved in the game by himself, to develop logical game actions and to persist in the game. A lower score can be linked to problems with social competence, at school, in the area of language and storytelling. Two of the children used aggression.
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