Kids love toys. Toys are more than just playing with your child, even if the child's knowledge. Did not Toys help teach interaction and communication, and with a little 'fancy, may be an additional transportation of the child's daily life in the kingdom. Toys able to open endless roads of learning could generate interest in a future career or just to inspire kids to be bigger than themselves.
But what isdisabled children? When we think of children playing with toys, be happy, healthy children usually come to mind images. We could not believe that the child is bound to a wheelchair or confined to a bed with a debilitating disease. These children need toys, too.
Buying toys for children with disabilities should not be different than buying toys for children are healthy, but for some reason the thought of a disabled child often leads to a mental block. You could hearas you do not know what toys to have a child or someone who is deaf-blind.
The selection of toys for handicapped children is not so difficult. All you have to do is try to look at the toy from a different perspective. The National Lekotek Center, a non-profit organization dedicated to do his research toys for children with disabilities. Here are some tips, the Centre for Research of toys for children:
1. Think about how a child's toy appealon more than one level of sensory perception. A toy that has a unique structure, could attract a blind child, while one would be light, motion, great for a deaf child.
2. How easy is it to use the toy? Make sure that toys are not so complicated that a child becomes frustrated with a disability. Think about it, must go through many steps, like the child to activate the toy. E 'at the touch of a button, or are there some things you do, the child must firstwork within the toy?
3. The toy can be used anywhere? If a child is confined to bed can be used lying down? It will be a child in a wheelchair in a position with the toy in your lap or on a tray to play?
4. The child as toys that can be used however he or she likes? It is a game with a specific objective or the child can make his own games, as he goes along?
5. Disabled children want toys to play with everyone else. If the toy on the basis of acurrent popular movie or book? It is something that no other toy that the disabled child can have?
6. The toy allow for creativity and free expression?
7. How adjustable is the toy? Try to take into account height, volume, speed and difficulty. If the toy grows with the child or the toy is for a very narrow age range? It has the potential as a collectible? It 's something that the child is returning, or the child is too largefast?
8. Security is always a consideration if the child is disabled or not. Given the size of the child and the strength and durability of the toy. treat the child has the ability of small moving parts, or larger pieces are needed to manipulate the child's toy? Can the toy without damaging wet? It is easy to clean the toy?
9. If the toy is appropriate for the child development and chronological age?
10. What is theLevel of interaction between the child and toys? It is an active toy, or a toy that requires very little effort on the part of the child? This toy has the potential to have social interactions with other children to support?
Children with disabilities are no different from other children. Children still love to play this, and still have the toys. Tips With these, you should have no problem special toy for that special child.
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