Therapeutic mat
AssigneeBrain Abc's, Inc.
InventorPam A. Cavallo
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Abstract
A therapeutic tool, and method for using it, for integrating motor, sensory and cognitive skills and progressively developing coordination and cognitive functioning. In a preferred embodiment, a mat is provided with colored shapes forming a figure-8 path. The shapes may be colored differently to progress along the figure-8 path. The shapes may be lights, and a computer may be used to program the lights, or provide music, to prompt the user to progress along the figure-8 path.
Claims8
A method for using a therapeutic tool for integrating motor, sensory and cognitive skills and progressively developing coordination and cognitive functioning, comprising the steps of:
- providing a mat having an upper surface with a plurality of colored shapes collectively forming a figure-8 path with four different legs, and wherein each leg of the figure-8 path comprises different shapes, or shapes with different colors, and wherein each leg further comprises lights;
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- providing a programmable computer electronically connected to the mat, the computer being programmed to turn on and off the lights in predetermined sequences designed to prompt a user of the mat to progress along the figure-8 path.
A therapeutic tool for integrating motor, sensory and cognitive skills and progressively developing coordination and cognitive functioning, comprising:
- a mat having an upper surface with a plurality of colored shapes collectively forming a figure-8 path with four different legs, and wherein each leg of the figure-8 path comprises different shapes, or shapes with different colors, and wherein each leg further comprises lights;
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- a programmable computer electronically connected to the mat, for programming the lights targeted to work in a predetermined manner based on a history of past sessions on the mat by specific individual users of the mat, and designed to facilitate therapeutic development of the specific individual users, including to facilitate their induced progress along the figure-8 path.
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