A while back, I discussed several different fidgets for individuals with autism, ADHD, dyspraxia, sensory processing disorder, and more (blog links at bottom of this page). Fidgets are developed for children and adults who need to keep their hands, fingers, feet, and/or mouths busy. In these blogs, I covered a couple of options to help individuals […]
Posts with the fidgets tag
8 Exciting Fidgets for Adults
Last week, I wrote a featured blog discussing 5 different fidgets for children with special needs. Within hours of publishing, the article gained a tremendous amount of attention due to the prevalence of fidgeting among children with and without special needs. (After all, children will be children and they just have to move!) As you probably already know, children are not the […]
Stimtastic: Affordable toys for stimming behavior
Have you ever tapped your pencil, bitten your nails, twirled your hair, or paced back and forth? If you have, then you’ve engaged in stimming, an action that is often part of most individuals’ behavior patterns. So what exactly is stimming? According to this article on Autism Spectrum Disorders, stimming is short for “self-stimulatory behavior, sometimes also […]