My 6 yr old daughter loves playing with Bubber. My daughter has Down syndrome which causes low-muscle tone so fine-motor activities can be difficult for her. With the light, soft texture she is able to easily manipulate the product. She is able to use the spoon knife and cut clean lines right through Bubber with no problems. It is also gluten-free which is a bonus since my daughter also has Celiac disease.
Signing Time
We began using the Signing Time video series when our daughter with Down Syndrome was only one. She is the 9th of our 11 children. Previous to that, we knew no sign language. We had heard that teaching little ones with Downs to sign could bridge the gap between their desire to communicate, and their ability to communicate verbally. To say that we were amazed would be an understatement!! She wasn’t “retarded” as society would have you believe. She just didn’t have the means to “get it out” in a way that we would have been able to understand without the sign language. She knew 100’s of signs (this is no exaggeration) before she turned 2 years of age, and we never experienced screaming, etc that we had heard about, that we are now sure must come from the frustration that they feel at not being able to “talk” to those around them. We constantly have “professionals” come up to us when we are out in public, and they can’t believe that at only 4 years of age now that she is so far advanced to the adults that they are currently working with. It truly has been a gift from God! The videos were created for children to learn with no help from the adults whatsoever. Even a deaf child could learn to sign as they use the multi-sensory approach in the videos. Our entire family has learned to sign by watching these fun videos. This is the only resource, other than a couple of signing dictionaries, that we have used. It is that good, and that comprehensive. We can’t say enough to praise this product! Words can’t express how much it means to be able to have access into the heart and mind of our daughter, something that we didn’t know if we’d have when we first learned of her condition.
