Mara Kaplan Email & Phone Number

I am an educator, an advocate for inclusive play and a parent of a child with profound disabilities. I have more than 20 years’ experience creating inclusive playspaces. Through my consulting business, Let Kids Play!, I work with landscape architecture firms and municipalities to that playgrounds are designed to meet the needs of all children. I also management the website accessibleplayground.net, which includes a comprehensive listing of accessible playgrounds in from around the world. I facilitated the creation and writing of the Inclusive Play Design Guide in conjunction with Playworld . and have worked with Playworld to train their staff in inclusion and worked with their designers on new products.I speak around the country about her journey as parent of a child with disabilities as well as on topics such as universal design, inclusive playgrounds, and playgrounds for children with autism, and inclusion. I help create The Center for Creative Play, an all inclusive playspace that saw 45,000 people a year. Over a 12 year period, I help grow the agency from 1 employee to one with 20 employees and a national impact.

Listed skills include Nonprofits, Public Speaking, Grant Writing, Strategic Planning, and 46 others.