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What do you buy a hearing impaired child for Christmas?
Your child probably has a Santa list as long as the jolly man's beard, and friends and relatives have probably been asking what gift your child would like. Why not think about getting gifts that aren’t only fun, but also support the development of listening and spoken language?
We asked Rachael, our Early Intervention Manager, to put together a list of gifts that are great for different age groups.
If you are feeling a little stuck this year for present ideas have a look at our list of presents that should bring a smile to your child’s face as well as building their listening and language skills. I have included some inexpensive home-made options too that I think have that extra special touch.
Puppets can be used to encourage your baby to vocalise. As your baby vocalises you make the puppet move. Your baby will delight as the puppet gets closer and closer for a cuddle. There are some beautiful farm animal puppets available.
Babies delight in faces. A soft photo album of close up photos of families’ faces will be loved by everyone.
Blocks come in all different materials and sizes. They are great to develop hand eye coordination and understanding of cause and effect. There is a lot of language that can be paired with block play; “build it up”, “one more’, “push it down”, ‘it’s wobbly”, “oh oh it fell down”.
Let your imagination run wild. A piece of board with locks, and keys and materials of different textures, a mirror, and things that spin will keep your baby or toddler happy for hours. Have a look here for inspiration.
At this age toddlers are very mobile. They have an increased desire to explore new objects. They are showing greater independence and imitating the behaviour of others. Toddlers enjoy role playing daily tasks like hanging out the washing, sweeping the floor and cooking on the stove. Have a look at these ideas to bring a smile on your toddler’s face.
Make four different coloured sets of play dough and put each colour in a small separate plastic container. Collect some paddle pop sticks, a rolling pin and some cutters and create your own play dough set.
Buy a cheap box and fill it with craft items. You can include patty pans, paper, cellophane, tissue paper, pipe cleaners, paddle pop sticks, pom poms, crayons, card board, glue stick, paint and paint brushes and child friendly scissors. Your child should get hours of fun from their craft box.
Over summer you can share many tea parties with real water and fruit and crackers. Pack a picnic basket with your child’s favourite soft toys and head off on a picnic or you might just set up under the kitchen table. Enjoy talking about favourite foods, the colours of the plates and cups, who has the biggest strawberry, which cup is empty and which one is full.
Turn a plastic container into a cook top. Fill the container with everything your child needs to cook up a storm: saucepan, frying pan, wooden spoons, whisk, wooden fork, plastic bottles, oven gloves, tea towel, bowls, cups, spatula. It is portable, so this can be enjoyed anywhere, including in the garden to make mud pies!
Summer means the beach, where a bucket and spade are a must. This can develop lots of language with your child around what shapes can you make in the sand, who can build the biggest sandcastle, can you add a tunnel or a moat?
Children around age four are exploring and learning to express emotions. Children of this age enjoy engaging in pretend play and are becoming more cooperative with other children. Here are some unique ides to build your child’s imagination and creativity.
It’s simple: a hoola hoop with a piece of material attached. The material can be of any design that you think your child will love. You can hang this inside or outside and your child has an instant cubby!
As parents drums and other instruments can be the gifts we dread the most, but they are a great activity for your child. You can march around the house taking turns being the leader. Who is first, who is second and third? Talk about how you play them - shake, beat, tap, scrape.
If you are a little bit crafty you can try making some of your own story stones. It is a wonderful way to encourage children to make up their own stories. Keep your stones in a soft bag or box. Just think of the stories that could be made when they pulled out a lion a roller skate and a pizza!!
Go and visit an op shop, buy a suitcase and fill it with a range of dress ups. Buy fancy shoes, hats, dresses, pants, belts, bags, scarves. If you buy items that are bright and colourful you will inspire their imaginations.
The biggest thing when it comes to this time of year is don’t over think your Christmas present buying. You know your child and you know what motivates them and makes them smile and laugh.
Find some presents that will be motivating for your child but also promote their whole development. Remember children learn through play and children learn when they are having fun! Children often have lots of toys at home.
After Christmas you may suddenly find that you have a lounge room full of toys. Have you thought about rotating your toys? Keep some tubs of toys in the cupboard and then swap them over each week. You might even bring toys out in themes; all the farm toys, all the vehicles, all the cooking toys, all the baby toys. By doing this toys sustain their interest for longer and children are more likely to focus their play rather than jumping from one toy to another.We have been established since 1948 and are the oldest weighing scales company in Pakistan with a nationwide setup of branch offices throughout the Country.
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An update on the state of affairs with my GigaPan images
Posted by Callan Bentley to tell.
But it’s been a rough few years for the technology of GigaPan. Shortly after I was seduced by the medium, the GigaPan company went belly-up, and the parts of the company (the software part, the hardware part, and the image-hosting website part) went their separate ways. Though it’s still possible to make GigaPans and upload them to GigaPan.com, the website is a ship without a crew. One consequence of this is that no one’s updating its code to match the march of time, the progress of technology. Because the website doesn’t support https (as opposed to old fashioned http) URLs, it’s no longer considered secure to embed their images in blog posts here on Mountain Beltway. This is a shame because it renders dysfunctional all those virtual field experiences (VFEs) that I’ve built up here over the years. I made them to be awesome, but now they are broken.
I also built up a huge repository of exercises and collections on my NOVA faculty website, some of which mirrored content originally posted here on the blog. (I’d link to it here, but that link would be worthless, as you’ll see below…)
The earliest version of the embedding code (to stick GigaPans as live, dynamic images within some other webpage, like a blog post) was based on Flash. The Flash-based embed code was functional on several fronts: it allowed the person doing the embedding to select certain snapshots (little highlighted areas) to include while excluding others that were tangential to their purpose. It didn’t have a title, which was good if you use the imagery the way I do: by having students figure out what’s going on in these images. Along similar lines, it didn’t have a direct link back to the source image page. (Some tech-savvy students figured out how to get back to the source page by reading the HTML that coded for the embed, but most didn’t – and took the exercise at face value.)
That said, it was Flash — and you know how people are about Flash. The medium, so vital and promising when first released, has been in the process of being “deprecated” (made to go away) for years now. But it persists nonetheless. Many browsers and devices don’t support Flash, and it created technical problems for my students — problems that got in the way of learning. I spent a decent amount of time each semester coaching students down the one or two paths that would lead to successfully accessing the material.
Fortunately, one of the last major acts of the GigaPan company prior to folding was to install an HTML5-based embedding code on their website, assuming that users (i.e., those who posted the images) clicked the “it’s okay for other people to embed my images” button. This allowed a non-Flash embed, but while