In the world of online shopping and toy isles its hard to choose toys for children with autism.
Here are a list of toy options for open ended play, sensory integration and increasing time-on-task.
Marble Run
Perfect for kids of all ages. Promotes motor skills, motor imitation and multiple step directions. Naturally elicits reinforcement for work as the marble is placed at end of task
Sorting Bears
Beneficial for all ages, can be done without support, works on matching to sample with generalization and math skills.
Connect 4
Beneficial for social skills, matching skills, math skills, motor skills, duration of task and waiting training. Can be done indignantly or with multiple players.
Charades for Kids
Role playing skills, receptive language, listener responding, generalization and tacting feature, function and class. Wonderful for functional play skills and teaching abstract reasoning skills.
Mr. Potatoe Head
Teaches emotions, multi- part toys and labeling body parts. Great to practice communication and generalizing to child’s own body parts.
Lego Kit with Directions
Receptive language, multi-part toys, increase compliance, matching, listener responding, visual directions, reinforcement of completed toy.
Microphone
Great for early communicators.
Children can receive reinforcement through babbling or approximating words/letters.