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DS (4) is getting "into" dinosaurs. Dino-recommendations please...

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WinterIsComing · 27/09/2011 13:39

DS has autism and is currently enjoying the Harry book but the bucket toys which can be bought have awful reviews. He has a sponge-like memory for the names but is completely PC-obsessed atm and I would love something he would actually play with.

Any ideas, please?

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piprabbit · 01/10/2011 23:23

DS has some of these wooden dinosaurs - they are quite large and very tactile.

madhattershouse · 01/10/2011 23:26

What about a Roboraptor, the remote controlled dinosaur. My son got one when he was 5, very cheap from e-bay, he loves it and the basic controls mean that you don't need to know much about remotes to get the thing to move.

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WinterIsComing · 01/10/2011 23:39

Oh, so many great ideas. The wooden dinosaurs are lovely. I want them all myself, and the cave-people!

Roboraptor looks good too Smile

I bet this thread is going to be useful to lurkers and people searching years from now too. You are all so helpful!

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pramsgalore · 02/10/2011 10:17

yes, i have made sure he has the set, hoping he plays with them, but yes he will go mad if anyone touches them, or dares to move them, i am getting him a shed for outside, so he can have his own space, will have to have 2 one for ds and one for the girls though, so he will be able to arrange his own space however he likes. i am going to struggle when family ask what he wants though, so may have to think of things for his shed!!!!! have you been to dinosaur park in norfolk, its great fun, lots of running about and climbing and dinosaur info and huge dinosaurs and you can use tesco days out vouchers to get in now

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WinterIsComing · 02/10/2011 20:22

Oh a shed / own space sounds great! I always struggle too wrt family. ELC inflatable T-Rex for his shed? Grin

I never know from one week to the next what the next big thing is going to be. All I have idea-wise for others at the moment is book vouchers.

We've been to Norfolk on holiday and if we go again I will definitely take him to that park. Had no idea it was there, thank you Smile

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pramsgalore · 02/10/2011 20:39

Grin thats the good thing, he can have what ever he likes in his shed, as its not in the house!!!!
i like the inflatable t-rex, ds has a box full of britains tractors, cost me a small furtune, but i am not allowed to take them out of the bedroom even though he never gets them out anymore, they just sit there in a box collecting dust. [that was the big thing last christmas] and by next christmas i bet the soldiers will be in a box next to them Smile

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WinterIsComing · 02/10/2011 23:33

DS is like that with his almost-new Octonaut toys. He has to have things. Not to be played with but to own. MIL bought him a lovely and expensive wooden farm with animals which hasn't been moved since last Christmas.

It always makes me Shock when anyone suggests a boot-sale of toys in order to raise funds for children with ASD. Try sneaking out so much as one plastic lamb out of five practically-identical lambs and the child will know, immediately. DH, DD and I often have to search the toy boxes for the particular chicken DS requires at any one time, for example.

Apparently it's because the area in the brain which usually responds to people is wired towards possessions instead. Very interesting.

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