Abstract The objective of this study was to describe the effect of therapeutic play as a mediator in children learning from 18 to 30 months in the knowledge of the body, hygiene, sleeping, resting, feeding and sphincter control, in a school of early childhood education, in the state of Sao Paulo, including 18 children who were beginning in the process out of nappy. It was proposed to the children to take care of two dolls, changing them, bathing, feeding with […]