Kids love the toys. Toys are more than the child plays with, even if the child is not to achieve. Toys help teach interaction and communication, and with a little 'fantasy you can transport the child from its everyday life in an area different. Toys open to endless life learning pathways may spark interest in a future career or just provide the inspiration for most of them children.
But what aboutdisabled children? When we think of children playing with toys, from happy, healthy children usually come to mind images. We could not believe the child is bound to a wheelchair or confined to bed for a debilitating disease. These children need toys, too.
Buying toys for children handicapped children should not be any different than buying toys for a healthy, but for some reason, the thought of a disabled child sometimes brings a mental block. You could hearI do not know what it is like a toy or have a child who is deaf-blind.
Choose a toy for children with disabilities 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 research done his toys for children with disabilities. Here are some tips, the Centre for Research of toys for children:
Before Think like a child's toy appealmultiple levels of sensory perception. A toy that may be of a single texture turns a blind child, while one would be light, motion, great for a deaf child.
Depending on how the toy is easy to use? Make sure the toy is not so complicated that a child will become frustrated with a disability. Think of how many steps your child must go through to activate the toy. E 'with a touch of a button, or is there a couple of things to do, the child must firstbefore the toy works?
The third toy can be used anywhere? Can a child bedridden can use it lying down? If a child playing in a wheelchair in a position with the toy in her lap or on a tray?
If the fourth child as toys that can be used, however, he or she likes? It 's a game with a particular objective, or if the child at his own game when it goes on?
Fifth disabled children want toys that everyone else play. If the toy based on acurrent popular movie or book? If the toy is something that anyone is that the disabled child can have is?
If the sixth toy to ensure the freedom of expression and creativity?
How is the seventh controlled toy? Try to account for the height, volume, speed and difficulty. If toys grow with the child or a toy for a very narrow age range? Has potential as a collectible item? It 's something that the child is once again repeated, or the child has passedfast?
8th Security is always a consideration if the child is disabled or not. Considering the size of the child and the strength and durability of the toy. If your child has the ability of small moving parts, manage, or have larger pieces are needed for the child to manipulate the toy? Can the toy wet ruined without it? It is easy to clean the toy?
Ninth If the toy is appropriate for the child development and chronological age?
What is the 10thLevel of interaction between the child and toys? It 'an active game or a toy that requires minimum effort from the child? the toy has the potential to have social interactions with other children to support?
Disabled children are no different from other children. Children still like to play this, and they still have toys. Note: with these tips, you should have no problem that special toy for that special child.
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