This week’s pick is the delightful Shopping List Memory Game. The goal of the game is to fill your cart with all of the items on your shopping list. The fun is twofold as the classic memory game also develops personal and social skills.
Today through February 15, visit our site at https://www.difflearn.com to save 15% on the Shopping List game by entering the Promo Code SLDRTL2 at checkout.
*Offer expires on February 15, 2011 at 11:59 pm EST. Not compatible with any other offer.
Readers! We’re excited to introduce a new feature on our blog. Every week, we’re going to showcase a particular product that we love and offer you a chance to purchase it with a discount! We hope you’ll tune in to see what the Pick of the Week will be, obtain the promo code and start saving.
To set this new feature off, this week, we’re highlighting three brand new sets of sequencing flashcards at a 15% discount! These card sets feature crisp, clear and engaging photos that relate to every child’s daily experiences. The Learning to Sequence Cards come in 3-Scene, 4-Scene and 6-Scene sets.
Today through February 8, visit our site at https://www.difflearn.com and enter the Promo Code SEQDRB1 at checkout to save 15% on the Learning to Sequence series.
*Offer expires on February 8, 2011 at 11:59 pm EST. Not compatible with any other offer.
During holiday gift giving, no one wants to present their child with a curriculum wrapped with a big bow. We have loads of wonderful toys that are engaging and fun. We’ll keep it to ourselves that they’re educational. Here are some of our favorites which are great suggestions for friends and grandparents who might be stumped by what to get children on the spectrum for the holidays.
The Shape and Color Coaster has always been a kids’ favorite. The brightly colored pegs and pieces are engaging and fun.
The 3D Feel & Find is a high-quality wooden toy. You deal out the tiles and then children reach into the bag to pull out the corresponding wooden shape, using only their sense of touch. There’s fun for everyone to play together.
Every child loves pretend play. The Coin-u-Lator is an interactive coin-counting calculator that comes with addition and subtraction games. Kids will love pushing the large buttons and hearing the sounds of coins dropping into a drawer.
Puzzles are great for children at all stages of development. They’re fun on a rainy day (and develop key motor and spatial reasoning skills!)
Mighty Mind is another favorite, especially for children who love a challenge. The design tiles and 30 tangram-like design cards that become increasingly more challenging as you progress, developing creativity, visual and spatial relationships.
Have we left out anything that you think might make a good holiday gift?
This is a really interesting article in the NY Times about early autism diagnosis and the steps taken by one particular family. The treatment is based on a daily therapy, the Early Start Denver Model, that is based on games and pretend play. Do you think your child’s outcome would have been effected if they had received a diagnosis by age two?
The MotivAider is consistently one of our top sellers here at Different Roads to Learning. It’s a versatile and helpful tool that can be used for anything from prompting a child to engage in play to toilet training. The MotivAider vibrates at timed intervals to prompt an individual to engage in a specific behavior. This is an interesting article about how it is specifically used with children with ADD. Have any of you used the MotivAider as a way to teach or change certain behaviors? How have you used it and for what? We’d love to hear your experiences.
We’ve been waiting since February for the TimeBuddy to arrive and it’s finally here!
This wonderful and customizable clock is designed to help young children with daily routines and time management. TimeBuddy is a battery-operated 24-hour activity clock with alarm settings. The alarm can be set for up to three different activities. The clock dial points to visual icons which consist of reusable stickers that are placed at actual times throughout the day by the parent, giving children cues on when to start and stop certain activities. You can also set the clock to literally speak three different phrases in your choice of three languages (English, Spanish, and French). There’s even an option for a user-recorded message of up to 15 seconds to allow parents to record a personalized message and you can insert the child’s name into the pre-programmed messages.