Children often learn best through hands on experiences. Receptors in the skin send information to the brain about pressure, vibration, temperature, pain, and texture. Our sense of touch helps us hold and manipulate objects, determine if something is too hot or cold, and tolerate textures from sand to cotton balls.
Exploring items through touch on a vertical surface allows for even more purposeful engagement. Sensory wall panels allow for interactive tactile, visual, and auditory experiences to promote calming or improve alertness. Because the wall panels are mounted on the wall this allows improved accessibility for independence with sensory experiences and play for individuals in wheelchairs.
The LED Marble Tactile Wall Panel is a fun visual experience for any home or therapy space. Vibrant LED light shines through over 1000 iridescent marbles that fit into an aluminum grid, keeping the surface cool and safe to touch. The marble grid rolls over the fingertips promoting a calming and soothing sensation. This can be a great tool for children with low vision or vision impairments as a tactile and visual sensory experience without having harsh bright lighting.
The Tactile Activity Board allows an individual to explore sensory input through a variety of textures including rough ropes, wiggly soft tubes, cold chain links, bumpy ring, and a rubbery mesh. This board provides a lot of opportunities to work on grasping and releasing which can improve hand strength through pushing and pulling the materials. The bead board promotes crossing midline by sliding the beads from one side to the other. This can also be a great tool to introduce counting and colors. The gears on this board provide great visual engagement while also promoting wrist rotation through manipulation of the gears.
Tactile Activity Busy Board
$550.00
The Tactile Activity Wall offers several sensory experiences to explore in one place. Kids will love pulling the colorful tubes, tugging the ropes, manipulating the gears and abacus, gripping the hand web, or running their hands through the bead curtain.… read more
A Locks and Latches Board allows an individual to work on functional skills of manipulating a variety of locks, latches, and switches that are found in many homes. These locks promote problem-solving, fine motor skills, and hand strength. This board is a great opportunity to promote language including "open", "close", "up", and "down". These latches require eye-hand coordination and can also encourage frustration tolerance or persistence.
For a musical experience, the Paradiddle Percussion Busy Board is a wonderful way to encourage some music and individuality from your loved one. This board includes percussion tubes, bells, drums, tambourine, and xylophone. The variety of instruments encourage exploration of sound from loud and quite to high and low pitches. With several pairs of mallets this board encourages turn taking and also imitation. Try to have your child imitate the same pattern of sounds that you make! You can also have them imitate your vocal sounds such as "boom", "tap", "ding", or a lovely song. There are so many colors and shapes on this board it's as wonderful to look at as it is to listen to.
Allowing your imagination shape patterns and ideas with the 3D Shapes Activity Panel is a therapy must have! This panel provides a vertical Velcro surface to over 120 colorful wooden shapes and pattern blocks. Velcro is a wonderful tool to promote the push and pull of objects for improving hand strength. The variety of shapes offer endless opportunities for creativity while encouraging pre-academic skills including shape and color recognition. Using the shape pieces to create a larger picture develops spatial awareness and fine motor accuracy.
