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My Child Has a Hearing Loss...What Next?
Information and resources for parents of newly diagnosed deaf and hard of hearing children.
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Dragonfly: Specials Needs and Universal Access Resource
Universal Access Educational Video Games and Software.
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Slip On Dressing Aid
Note: Review only, product no longer for sale.
Versatile dressing aid that helps remove shoes and socks
With the Slip-On Dressing Aid, wheelchair users and those with back limitations or arthritis can put on socks, stockings, slacks, shorts, pajama bottoms, panties and undershorts without additional assistance. A notch in the lower end helps in the removal of shoes and socks. It consists of a pair of gently curved plastic rods which rock against each other, along a section of intermeshing teeth molded into their inner surfaces. Each 19" (46 cm) long rod has a pad of hook-and-loop closure at one end to hold onto an article of clothing. Squeezing the other ends of the rods together will spread open the clothing for entry of the foot or leg. For one or two-handed use.
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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.