Drosophila melanogaster genetics comes kind of close! They find all sorts of mutants, give them weird names, and then use these as models for understanding vertebrate development.
A solor powered prisim is really nice...I had one in my classroom, donated by a parent. My daughter found is soothing. As the sun makes the prisim turn, the rays reflect rainbows in the room.
A body sock was a great gift for my daughter. When my daughter was first diagnosed, it was w/ sensory disorder. She slep a whole year in her sock....I was surprised and happy to see her having a great nights rest since she was a baby. (She now uses it every so often.)
When my daughter was little she LOVED fairy tales. She just talked and talked about Cinderella (Her favourite to this day) So I bought her all kinds of Cinderella stories...from India, Italy etc....I also bought different versions than Disney. She learned how to read (in my opinion) through these books. She knew the main idea of the story but the different versions helped her to understand words....our latest version was the Book and DVD Ella Enchanted.... (Personally it is a rare happening but we liked the moive better than the book.... :oops:
Crooke's radiometer is good if you like spinning!
Stella
Oh gosh, I've been moving one of those around with me for years!
I still have the same blue metal slinky I got when I was a kid, and that was sometime almost 50 years ago.
I still have the same blue metal slinky I got when I was a kid, and that was sometime almost 50 years ago.
Slinkys are great! I ususally have one by my desk. I use to relieve stress.
Great ideas!
I would recomend the manga Planetes, written and drawn by Makoto Yukimura. It's pretty unknown, but it's one of the best damn comics I've ever read. Simply put, it's a realistic sci-fi drama with a lot of autistic characters and themes. It's also very entertaining, suits people who are tired of just plain violence or soap opera and wants something with more social realism, plot and just plain intelligence.
Hehe, "Sandwalk Adventures" sounds great, I really must check it out.
I have the Charles Darwin plush-toy, by the way. Soft, bearded and with a detailed suit, a great gift to both little and big evolved apes. I don't know which company that made it, but he's part of the "The Unemployed Philosophers Guild" series, together with many other famous bald people with white beards. Adorable!
Hey Amy....
A body sock is a stretchy fabric w/ velco in the front. Kind of looks like a small sleeping bag, but the opening is in the front. Used a lot in OT sessions. Once you are in it, you just stretch around. It gives deep presures as you do so. Some professionals say it's like being in the womb again....I don't know about that, but what I do know it worked great for my daughter.
A block of drawing-paper, some erasers and a mechanical pencil. Sure, it sounds very simple, but I really love my mechanical pencil, I can't draw good without it. A lot cleaner, more accurate and fascinating than a normal wooden pencil, it keeps me entertained for hours with just doodling whatever I can think of.
Amy, the same thing but they just renamed it... :lol:
Hey Joel, I just bought my daughter a wooden manikin to go along w/ her drawing set. (She choose a kitten maniken) But we got got a How to Draw Spirit and Friends book and it's great...it goes step by step and if she wants I'll show you a comparison of how she drew a horse before and how great it is now in the art section....
Walmart sells the manikins the less expensive, but once they are out of stock that's it....I got a great deal on the kitten on in a regular fancey art store...look for a sales...the one she really wanted was a horse, but that was WAY over our price range...
Oh, I would love to see your daughter's drawings, Anag (if she wants to show it to us, of course)! Hm, a kitten manikin? Haven't seen one of those yet, sounds pretty useful. I do have a human manikin, but... eh... I bought it on IKEA for 20 SEK (less than two dollars) so it's pretty broken... I prefer to make up all the poses by myself, anyway.
lol....that's cute your manikin was well used then....My daughter is thinking about it..she's a little embarassed but she said she would think about it...
I thought of this one today--a lava lamp