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Always consider toys that:
- Talk
- Produce Sounds
- Play Music
- Shine bright lights ( good for visually impaired/low
vision)
- Variety of interesting surfaces and textures
- Stimulate creativity and pretend play (farm house)
- Doll houses to illustrate the rooms in your house
Promote cooperation, sharing and social development
- Ring Box Placing rings in a box - wrist control
- Playdoh Pretend play, animal shapes, cookie cutters,
- Musical Instruments Groovy Tunes Piano, Tambourines,
Maracas
- Bells, Drums, Xylophone and Musical TAPES
- Fisher Price Roller Coaster
- Puzzles Shapes, Animals, Numbers, Letters
- Chuck the Truck Comes to you when you call his name
- Balls Wiggles Giggle, Ex-large balls for balance, laying
on top, rolling on belly
- Hot Wheels Steering Wheel has the features of a real
race car
- Reading Teddy Reads the story as you squeeze foot
- Kitchen Sets Pretend play in the kitchen, identifying
foods and shapes. Recognizing utensils,
- Sit and Spin Hand over hand to pull body around in a
circle
- Elmo Race Car Set Finger manipulation, the sounds of
horns, car on a track, street signs, car wash, bridges to
describe over and underpasses.
- Farm House Animal discrimination and sounds
- Vtech Toys ABC with Braille
- Fisher Price Magnet ABC’s with Braille
Sources for Toys for Visually Impaired
& Blind
American Toy Institute, Inc
1115 Broadway, Suite 400
New York, NY 10010
212/675-1141
www.toy-tma.org
Constructive Playthings
1200 Welsh Rd.
Montgomery Commons
North Wales, PA 19454
215/362-1599 800/448-4115
Caplan Materials for Early Childhood
1310 Lewisville-Clemmons Rd.
P. O. Box 609
Lewisville, NC 27023
800/334-2014
Capable Kids
P. O. Box 250
Bohemia, NY 11716
800/356-1564
Blind Children's Center
4120 Marathon St.
P.O. 29159
Los Angeles, CA 90029
213/664-2153
Enabling Devices
385 Warburton Avenue
Hastings on the Hudson, NY 10706
914/478-0960
Lakeshore Learning Materials
2695 East Dominguez Street
P. O. Box 6261
Carson, CA 90649
800/421-5354
Flaghouse
601 Flaghouse Drive
Hasbrouck Heights, NJ 07604
800/793-7900 |
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