Gwyn McCormack from Positive Eye has generously submitted a series of ‘Top Ideas’, which we will be sharing each month. You can read her introduction to the series and other posts here.

This specific series is centred around the importance of concept development when teaching children who have a vision impairment. The ‘Top Ideas’ can be utilised by your child’s educational setting or by a parent wanting to give a little extra help with learning from home.

Idea 14: Word Matching Game

Word Matching Game

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The images show plastic eggs filled with different objects, such as a doll, sponge, ball, ribbon, buttons.

Plastic eggs that open (can be bought in Hobbycraft). Fill with objects.

Add their initial letter to one half and the full word to the other half.

Play matching and sorting games.

Lovely way of supporting fine motor skills, hand grasp, wrist flexibility, pincer grasp as well as word and letter recognition skills.

Idea 15: Word Matching Game 2

Word matching gameImage Description

The images show a shoe tidy filled with various objects.

Shoe tidy (can be found in PoundLand): fill pockets with objects

Add labels to name each object to each pocket

Play matching and sorting games

Lovely way of supporting fine motor skills, hand grasp, wrist flexibility, pincer grasp as well as word and letter recognition skills.

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Make the child with SEND the starting point for planning, NOT the ADD-ON

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