Comfy-N-Secure Coaster Swing

Product Description

Sensory 4

Skills

• The act of swinging provides vestibular input to children.  This input helps a child feel his body in space. It can also help reduce hyperactivity because it calms the nervous system and readies it for cognitive activities presented after. Vestibular input also helps children develop balance.
• Children gain proprioceptive input as they make small postural changes during swinging.

Play Ideas

• Enhance sensory play by holding out a tactilely interesting toy for a child to touch or a tambourine for a child to kick each time he swings forward.

Physical 3

Skills

• The act of swinging provides vestibular input to children.  This input helps a child feel his body in space. It can also help reduce hyperactivity because it calms the nervous system and readies it for cognitive activities presented after.  Vestibular input also helps children develop balance.
• Children gain proprioceptive input as they make small postural changes during swinging.
• Grasping can be encouraged as children hold the ropes of the swing.

Play Ideas

• Play social interactive games by pushing from the front such as tickling toes each time the child swings forward.

Adaptation Ideas

• Place a piece of non-skid shelf liner on the seat of the swing.  This, along with the safety T-bar can prevent a child from sliding.
• Use rolled up towels on both sides of the child to provide additional support as needed.

Social/Emotional 4

Skills

• Encourage eye contact by pushing a child from the front.
• The swing can foster turn taking when more than one child wants to play.
• Encourage interaction by holding out a toy for a child to touch or holding out your hand for him to gently kick when he swings forward.

Play Ideas

• Push a stuffed animal or doll in the swing. 
• Play social interactive games by pushing from the front such as tickling toes each time the child swings forward.
• Have the child pretend he is a bird flying in the sky or a pilot flying an airplane.