Manufacturer Name:
Anthony Innovations, Inc.
Product Name:
Customer Quote: I passed this game along to a fellow teacher who was working with a child who had little interest in playing games with other people beyond the computer. She said every day that he walked into her classroom he asked to play the New Touch Game! -- Teacher, Cumming, GA
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Sensory Description
This unique sensory and highly tactile game appeals to many children that often do not show interest in traditional family games.
The New Touch Game can be played at an individual’s own pace or with a timer to foster successful game playing.
Simple rules and a unique experience make this game desirable for many levels of learning.
Skills
Tactile discrimination, along with visual attention, discrimination and tracking are used when matching the correct pieces with corresponding cards.
Memory skills are enhanced as children remember what pieces they are searching for to make complete sets.
Social skills are encouraged through turn taking, often a sense of camaraderie develops and other children will help each other out by giving clues from the observation window.
Play Ideas
Have children separate cards into categories and play with only a few categories at once.
Have children pick their own cards that they enjoy and then match to those cards. Whoever completes his cards first is the winner!
Leave the collected pieces on the cards and whoever finishes a card gets to keep the card.
If your child is learning about sea life or farm animals have them play this game and read the fun facts before they are able to pull a card, encouraging learning and making it fun!
Adaptation Ideas
Play without the timer or use another apparatus to signal the end of the turn (i.e. sand timer), and allow each person to get a chance to pull one piece.
Communicative Description
The New Touch Game can be played at an individual’s own pace or with a timer to foster successful game playing.
Simple rules and a unique experience make this game desirable for many levels of learners.
Skills
Social skills are encouraged through turn taking, often a sense of camaraderie develops and other children will help each other out by giving clues from the observation window.
Reading skills are promoted from simple words that identify the pieces to more intricate facts about them.
Memory skills are enhanced as children remember what pieces they are searching for to make complete sets.
Play Ideas
Have your child be very comfortable with the words of the game cards and pieces you will use, to promote anxiety-free social interactions.
If your child is learning about sea life or farm animals have her play this game and read the fun facts or pictures of the cards before she is able to pull a card, encouraging learning and making it fun.
Have children separate cards into categories and play with only a few categories at once.
Have children pick their own cards that they enjoy and then match to those cards. Whoever completes his cards first is the winner.
Adaptation Ideas
Cognitive Description
The New Touch Game can be played at an individual’s own pace or with a timer to foster successful game playing.
Simple rules and a unique experience make this game desirable for many levels of learners.
Skills
Matching abilities using visual attention, discrimination and tracking are used when locating the correct pieces with corresponding cards.
Reading skills are promoted from simple words that identify the pieces to more intricate facts about them.
Memory skills are enhanced as children remember what pieces they are searching for to make complete sets.
As children begin to understand that, for example, they are collecting vegetables, they begin simple classification and sorting skills that will help them throughout school and life.
Social skills are encouraged through turn taking, often a sense of camaraderie develops and other children will help each other out by giving clues from the observation window.
Play Ideas
Have children separate cards into categories and play with only a few categories at once.
Have children pick their own cards that they enjoy and then match to those cards. Whoever completes his cards first is the winner!
Leave the collected pieces on the cards and whoever finishes a card gets to keep the card.
If your child is learning about sea life or farm animals have her play this game and read the fun facts before she is able to pull a card, encouraging learning and making it fun.
Adaptation Ideas
Physical Description
This toy would be challenging for a child with physical disabilities to use, particularly if they struggle with fine motor skills.
Skills
As a child finds her pieces, fine motor skills including finger grasping, placement and exploration are developed.
Arm extension and motor planning are promoted as the child searches for her pieces.
Play Ideas
Have your child partner with another player and define each person’s role to fit individual physical strengths.
Matching abilities using visual attention, discrimination and tracking are used when locating the correct pieces with cards.
Memory skills are enhanced as children remember what pieces they are searching for to make complete sets.
Adaptation Ideas
DESCRIPTION: Approx. Price: $20.00 - $40.00Box Age Range: 5+ yrs# of Pieces: Over 100Washability: Surface WipeStorability: Directions: Pictorial Play Locations: Indoor Adjustability: Levels of Play: Five or More LevelsBatteries: Yes – Not Included
Features and Benefits
Simple Clearly Written Instructions Incorporates Fundamental Learning Skills Large Target Area Self-Contained Different Shapes and/or Colors Familiar Objects/Pictures Easy to Grasp/Hold Hands-on Approach to Learning Realistic Detailed Connects/Assembles Securely High Quality Many Accessories Real Photographs are Used High Contrasting Colors Tactilely Stimulating Visually Stimulating Inviting Due to Uniqueness Innovative Can Be Used Independently or w/Others Durable
Developmental processes promoted
Object Recognition and Identification Categorization Visual Acuity Counting/Beginning Math Matching Sequential Thought Turn Taking Creativity Self Esteem Motor Planning Precision Tactile Discrimination Finger and Hand Control and Dexterity Problem Solving Imagination/Pretend Play Coordinated Movement Social Interaction Functional Finger Movement and Exploration Reaching/Arm Extension Visual Processing Memory and Recall Sorting and Classification Word Recognition Early Literacy Object Permanence Fine Motor Hand and Finger Grasp Patience Spatial Relationships e.g. Under, Over, On, Off Visual Tracking Visual Attention Attention to Detail Strategic Thinking
