Feb. 24, 2009 - Heads Up!
Do you have a struggling learning? A child with sensory issues? Autistic? Then I may have just the right company for you, with products for children who have sensory issues/fidgeting, speech issues, autism and other special needs. Heads Up motto is "Helping All Kinds of Special Kids".
I was fortunate to recieve the following from Heads Up! to review as part of the TOS Crew:
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Large Heads Up! Frames in six colors
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Small Heads Up! Frames in six colors
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Heads Up! Readers in six colors and a clear Reader
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Heads Up! Double-Time in two colors
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Heads Up! Top of the Line in two colors
What do they do? It is a great concept which allows children who may have trouble focusing on what to read or a certain math problem, to focus. They come in colors so that if your child is able to learn better from one color than another, it allows you to customize which colors you need.
As you can see the blocks allow you to focus on a certain area of a page while blocking out other areas. The bigger the sized square the more your child can view. While the Readers with a line of gray on the top and bottom allow one single line to be viewed and also allowing for neat underlining or highlighting.
My oldest Hannah, who is an avid reader and isn't special needs didn't see a need for them. My middle daughter though will definitely benefit from them in the near future as she is one who seems to be easily distracted and fidgets a lot. I think if I had had these when I was learning math - things would have gone much more smoothly - focusing on each problem at a time rather than the whole entire page of problems. I will also be trying them out at night, I haven't had a chance yet, when I read in bed. I tend to drift off and lose my place so I will see if these will help with that.
This product was well made and can be a big help to those with children with special needs, or maybe not with special needs - maybe they just have a hard time focusing on school work with other siblings around. At a price of just $1.00 from Heads Up! it is definitely worth an investment.
Also another nice thing about Heads Up! is there other line of products from math and phonics, timers, therapy balls and weighted animals to their speech therapy and books for parents, everything is well put together.
UPDATE: as I was writing my review, my daughter Hannah started going through them again and decided she does like them now. She said she is excited to use them this time around. I guess she just needed to warm up to the idea.
