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Resources > Toddlers - Toys/Games

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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