Child's Manipulative for Home and Classroom Behavior Support
OwnerJane Humphriesinventor
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Abstract
A device suitable to provide sensory stimulation to children is described. The device may be portable or fixed to a child's school desk or may similarly be used in the home, public areas or otherwise, primarily of cloth construction which provides a variety of tactile and sensory stimuli suitable to help the child to maintain appropriate social or classroom behavior under a variety of local circumstances, such as when the holder is stressed or during transition periods in classrooms. The device is suitable for use from infancy to adulthood to meet the needs of users for whom tactile stimulation can provide attention redirection.
Claims24
A handheld, portable manipulative comprising tactile and visual feels and further comprising:
- a plurality of distinct fabrics permanently affixed at the fabric edges;
- sewn or otherwise bonded in a generally quilted manner;
- in which the distinct fabrics provide distinct tactile feels;
- and
- in which the distinct fabrics provide distinct color feels.
A handheld or m table device comprising a rigid solid of suitable thickness and further comprising:
- a plurality of recesses
- in each of which recesses are permanently of releasably affixed objects of distinct sensory feels.
A method of maintaining classroom order comprising the steps of:
- a. Identifying a child suitable to receive classroom support for attention control.
- b. Identifying a plurality of tactile feels of interest to the child.
- c. Identifying a plurality of visual feels of interest to the child.
- d. Assembling the plurality of tactile and visual feels of interest to the child in a single handheld or mountable manipulative.
- e. Identifying suitable bases for providing the child with the manipulative.
- f. Providing the child with the manipulative at identified times to control the child's attention.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.