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painting, or with crayons or whatever, that this often works quite therapeutically, in a way?

Oh yes. Very expressive and also very therapeutic. And --well, that's a technique we use a lot. Now, we also use dolls, but not the white and black dolls. We use families of dolls, very frequently, so that you get expressions of how the child feels about himself in the family. Then you can help him to do constructive things in the family, with the dolls. So we use dolls a lot and art a lot, and abstract things a lot, like puzzles and things for the children to solve, so they get a sense of achievement and accomplishment. We use all kinds of things. There's a large activity sort of thing-- you saw the big worm? We let them crawl through that, and they let out a lot of steam.

Yes. I notice you also have one room, a child throwing darts.

Yes. Things for expression.

Now, to what degree is helping them learn to concentrate involved in some of this work?

That's all in how you use it. For instance, if you're working with darts, you're not aimless about it. There's some plan to it, you know, you're concentrating on a goal.

Have I read correctly that with some children from very poor families, in the infancy and toddler time, there's so few toys in the family that actually this becomes a deprivation as far as learning goes -- they don't learn to concentrate and do different