APH Products Promote Play, Fitness
New Book Shows Blind Children How to Play, Interact With Classmates
The American Printing House for the Blind (APH), which makes educational products as well as specially formatted books, has released two new recreation-related products geared towards blind and visually impaired schoolchildren. APH, based in Louisville, Kentucky, has also added recreational titles to its Braille Book Corner.
Jump Rope to Fitness ($129.50) is a kit designed to teach blind and low-vision children jump rope skills as a means of improving cardiovascular health, along the lines of its Walk/Run for Fitness Kit. All Children Have Different Eyes: Learn to Play and Make Friends (Large print, $18.95) is an illustrated hardbound storybook written for elementary age students about two children with low vision.
All Children Have Different Eyes
All Children Have Different Eyes is designed to serve as a model for how visually impaired children can confidently play and make friends while facing social challenges, such as answering questions about their condition, entering play groups, or handling limitations responsibly.
Topics covered include
- Making and keeping friends
- Coping with bullies and other mean people
- Coping with others lack of knowledge
- Coping with mistakes and limitations because of low vision
- Feeling confident even when seeing in different ways than peers see
- How to enter a playgroup.
The book is also intended to show students why a visually impaired classmate sees and plays differently, in the hope that understanding will make them better friends and playmates. Parents and teachers will learn how visual impairment affects social interactions. The book includes examples of 40 interactive activities, glossary, and resource listing.
Jump Rope for Fitness Kit
As few as 10 minutes of jumping rope can be as effective as 30 minutes of jogging, and the APH Jump Rope to Fitness Kit provides individuals with the tools to jump rope independently, learn specific skills, and set goals.
The Jump Rope to Fitness Kit includes:
- Plastic cord jump rope
- Short beaded jump rope
- Medium beaded jump rope
- Long beaded jump rope
- Jump Snap™ talking-ropeless jump rope
- Orientation anti-shock mat
- Jump Rope to Fitness Guidebook, Large Print
- Jump Rope to Fitness Guidebook, Braille.
The guidebook describes the benefits of jumping rope, explains how to get started, introduces jump rope social awareness, and leads students through a progression of increasingly challenging jumping rope skills.
Extreme Animals: The Toughest Creatures on Earth
APH has added several new recreational titles to its Braille Book Corner, including, Extreme Animals: The Toughest Creatures on Earth, by Nicola Davies, (Braille, $11.50), which presents facts about animals that thrive in conditions where humans would die; e.g. polar bears in the arctic, emperor penguins, desert camels, reptiles, heat-loving bacteria, deep-sea sponges, and the tough, tiny tardigrade, or water bear. Grades 3-6.
Only the Extreme Animals book can be purchased with quota funds. Contact: American Printing House for the Blind (800.223.1839) for more information.
APH continues to develop products that both enable blind students to connect with those around them and enable parents and teachers to foster healthy interaction.
APH's Jump Rope for Fitness Kit
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New APH Book All Children Have Different Eyes
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