Blind child Activity suggestions?

Question

I have a 6 year who is blind and hearing impaired and would like some ideas for fun things to do with her mabey things i havent thought of?

I have thought of alot of things and have resorses thru profesonals. but thought any ides that i haven't thought or a fresh prespective might be useful.
Thank you all.,

Answer 1

What have you thought of???? Anything that involves the other senses or an over-dose of hearing will be great for the child. Touch tanks at an aquarium, an airport, petting zoos, trip to a fabric store for exploration of textures, cheese stores, out door places, and farms to explores smells, touches, and sounds. Is the child hearing impaired on the high end or the low end? If the child hears the high end....visit dolphins. If the child hears the low end...visit the elephants.

Please visit hearing impairment sites on the internet because I have absolutly no experience with blindness or hearing impairment and yet I can think of things that would be good. You live with these impairments daily and you are lost???? Thank God Helen Keller found a real teacher!

Answer 2

You want to give her every opportunity for exploring her surroundings. When I worked in a school for blind preschoolers I spent a lot of money in a hardware store looking for all kinds of different textures that they could explore.

If she has some residual vision, try soap bubbles. I don't know why but the kids could always see those if they had any vision at all.

Feel free to email me if you'd like me to come up with a few more ideas; this was just off the top of my head.

Answer 3

Sculpting with clay.
Have her paint with a thick paint on a good canvas so that the paint has texture (like a Van Gogh). When it dries, have her feel the painting that she has created.
Knitting or crocheting.
Describe colors based on feelings (like in the movie "Mask" - with Cher, not "The Mask" with Jim Carrey)
Baking - she can find the right measuring cup by feel, and the ingredients by taste or smell
Hope some of this helps. God bless you both.

Answer 4

nicely maximum young babies with disabilities decide directly to do a similar concerns diverse babies like. they only would have have been given to do them in any different case. i'm blind and have many friends who're additionally blind. I comprehend that I enjoy doing the concerns yet another new child would enjoy. whilst i used to be that age I favored arts and crafts. you're able to do tactile concerns like making textile collages or stringing beads or playing with shaving cream (a situation-free kindergarten sport that even the sighted babies with diverse precise demands will enjoy). purpose Ball is enormous countless the blind (you will locate information on it online) and sighted babies can discover ways to play as solid. For the mentally challenged, verify out observing on preschool sport cyber web web content for sport techniques which you will conform to make greater advantageous age marvelous.

Answer 5

ohh I think I've got a good one - a puzzle.
(and here I thought i'd have no good answer for that.)

and how about one of those 3-D wooden puzzles?

How about a set of a not-so-sharp little saw and some balsa wood? Let them build something of their own.

Get some puffy paint and let them paint their own t-shirts.