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Preschool Art Activity Tips For Children With Visual Impairments
With small adaptations, children with visual impairments can participate fully in art activities.
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Universal Access Educational Video Games and Software.
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Cheap Talk 4 Square With Jacks, 1-4" Jacks
Note: Review only, product no longer for sale.
Use with or without switches!
Popular Cheap Talk units are lightweight, portable, user-friendly and economical communicators which allow the user to "speak" phrases that you pre-record. Use them to provide communication and cognitive support, enhance and develop expressive and receptive language skills. Each 2" square has an easy to remove, plastic protective cover to hold words and pictures. Messages can be up to 5 seconds each and be recorded as often as you wish. Activate the communicator by pressing one of the four squares or by plugging in external switches (with 1/4" jacks) into the four jacks on the rear.
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Typical Access Profile
Auditory Normal Low Extremely Low Not Using Hearing Hyper-Acute |
Vision Normal Low Extremely Low Not Using Vision |
Gross Motor All Some Few Not Using Gross Motor |
Fine Motor All Some Few Not Using Fine Motor |
Developmental Age Range 0 - 2 3 - 5 6 - 8 9 - 12 13 and Over |
Language Typical Some Spoken Receptive Only Sign Assistive/Augmentitive Not Using Language |
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Why do they put everything in their mouths?
One of the earliest fine moter skill children develop is the skill of "sensation". Sensation is the skill we use to tell the difference between a quarter and a dime by touch without needing to look at the coins.
Cognitively young children have their best sensation descrimination in their mouths. By mouthing objects and then feeling them with their hands, children correlate the sensations from two different sensory input channels.
,This "sensory intgration" helps them to tune up the sensory apparatus in the hands. As the hands become more sensitive, children will need to put things in their mouths less and less.
During this oral stage it is important to offer many textured grasp and handle toys. Dragonfly offers a full collection of well designed and easy to handle toys of this type.