Tactile Activities For Blind Adults

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Tactile activities for blind adults.

Patchwork blind people can enjoy the tactile nature of placing the tiles. Borrow talking books from your local library. Arts crafts and tactile activities. The gentle movement of the glitter in the water has a soothing effect and the sparkle offers an external focal point.

Velcro pads will probably help. 20 activities for vision impaired people 1. There are people in some communities that specialize in these types of drum classes and they travel to senior centers and homes abc1234567890 both my blind father and a blind elderly client enjoy doing crossword puzzles together. Sculpture lets older adults express themselves creatively without needing to use their vision use modeling clay or sculpting sand.

Amuse each other with jokes. Go out for coffee. Today i want to share some of the best activities for the tactile system. With the number of games possible to play with them they are essentially the pocket knife of table top games.

Tactile activities are very helpful in problems like hand and finger awareness attention and fine motor planning. Anything you touch or feel is part of this system. Calm down jars clear containers filled with glitter or confetti saturated water provide a calming sensory experience for children or adults who are over stimulated and overwhelmed. Poker go fish war spit.

The tactile system provides us with our sense of touch. It is also the one people notice most often if a child has an overactive or under active tactile system. Although it s tempting to start by asking what activities blind people can do it might be more helpful to ask first what blind people can t do. The jars are portable and easy to pop in a purse or diaper bag so you can keep.

The tactile system is often the most commonly recognized sensory system of the body. Find out what sort of books they like and read to them. These playing cards have been adapted with braille on the corners very discreetly making it simple for people who are blind and visually impaired to pick up and play. Older adults with some vision might like making collages from magazine pictures or covering a plain box by gluing cut out images or colored paper.

Play tactile dominos or tic tac toe. Games that don t work for blind people. A sighted person needs to show what can be built from the current installation cards. What is a tactile system.

There are a few activities that it may be illegal for a blind person to do such as drive drive a car and other activities that may be impossible such as looking at.