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AUTISM TOYS, EDUCATIONAL TOYS, THERAPEUTIC TOYS
KidScope toys is your source for the most exciting autism toys, educational toys and therapeutic toys available! Our goal is to provide you with those items that we have found exciting in our own work as therapists, and to assist you in using these to aid in the growth and development of children with autism or special needs.
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This Month's Featured Toy:
 This month we are featuring our large textured blocks and offering parents some great play ideas!! Block play encourages visual/motor coordination, planning, sequencing and imaginative thinking in children with autism . Our large textured blocks with bright stimulating colors offer visual and tactile feedback as they stack and place easily. Manipulation of toys such as blocks helps a child with autism or special needs develop knowledge of basic shape, color and size concepts. They wipe clean and stack for easy storage. For play ideas click on the following link. Click here for more information...
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Autism Articles and Resources
Some children with special needs or autism are 'under-responsive' to sensation. For such children, experiences related to touch, texture, smell, sound, pressure, speed and balance must be intense. Their play is noisy and active as they jump off furniture, crash into others, push, bang and throw. They love sound effects, pushing buttons over and over to hear the sound effects again. As their appetite for sensory experience escalates, they may become over stimulated and be unable to 'wind it down'.
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Children with autism or special needs have difficulty linking ideas together to communicate, problem solve and explore their world. Building with blocks offers a simple repetitive yet educational experience, allowing the child with special needs to explore spatial relationships and balance...
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"Why are Sensory Toys so Important?"
The child with autism or special needs is often drawn to objects that offer stimulating tactile, auditory and visual feedback. Educational toys that affords an opportunity to push, pull, rock and swing can be effective in "organizing" a child with autism such that eye contact, language and attention are mobilized...
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"Cause-and-Effect - Making Things Happen"
For the child with autism or special needs, toys that make noise and move in response to their touch provide immediate reinforcement, prompting interest, attention and motivation to do it again...
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"Books & Puppets - Together They're Magic"
As a reading partner, mom or dad offer a child with autism or special needs the opportunity to discover the meaning of words and pictures. Speak through a visually stimulating puppet, and watch as communication, eye contact and emotion emerge...
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"Play a Game, Build a Relationship"
Games offer children with autism a pleasant forum to explore turn taking, rules, social skills, language and emotion. For children with developmental delays, educational game play offers structure and predictability, along with simple sequences to repeat while interacting with others...
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"Why Do Children Pretend?"
Children with autism need considerable support to progress from stereotyped repetitive play to that which is imaginative and evolving. For the child with special needs, pretend play often emerges as they imitate others who demonstrate the art of play...
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