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Car Slide
Note: Review only, product no longer for sale.
The Car Slide helps individuals who have difficulty getting positioned on a car seat.
It is also useful for moving patients on chairs and beds. An aide easily pulls a person sitting on the slide. Made of waterproof nylon with a non-slip top coating. Generously sized hand loops made of strong 1" (25 mm) webbing on four edges give a sure grip. Measures 30"x35 1/2" (76x90 cm). Weighs 1 lb. 9 oz. (0.7 kg.).
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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.