More thoughts about Christmas presents

[Saker]

Again I know not appropriate for all, but I thought I would put down a couple more ideas I have had for Ds2 because they might help someone else out.

This MP3 player has a built-in speaker so it doesn't need headphones (which is good for us because DS2 refuses to wear them). The sound quality is pretty good and for our holiday this year I loaded a lot of audiobooks onto it and Ds2 loved it. It holds quite a lot - we managed about 20h of audio books.

On a similar note I am wondering about buying a digital voice recorder and recording myself and other members of the family reading stories for Ds2. It connects up with the computer so you can burn your recordings onto CDs or MP3. I also wondered if some autistic children would enjoy having it themselves and go round recording their own sounds to listen to?

Last one for now, someone might have suggested this but there are loads of lava lamps on ebay. Thought they looked quite fun.

Any more ideas from anyone please post, I have queues of relatives wanting ideas for Ds2 .

Here are some for the younger ones. DS and I popped in to work yesterday and he was spoilt rotten again! Got some lovely thoughtful presents to accomodate his probable VI, this is great.We got one of these too, which looks ace but haven't tried it out yet.
Aaaaannnd one of these!
Told you he was spoilt

Saker, instead of or as well as the digital voice recorder you could get a photo album which lets you record a message on each page, i.e. to go with the photo. I think most SnappySnaps etc sell them.

i know a lot of people have mentioned tomys photo book

I like the idea of the photo book, was wondering about that also - Ds2 does love stories though so would appreciate the longer time on the voice recorder.

That reminds me of an idea which could be turned into a Christmas present - Ds2 loves looking at pictures of himself doing ordinary things, I have a mini-photo album with pictures of him and the family - always a good standby for queues/restaurants etc.

One year we got a fab toy for ds, I will have to google it (working at the mo oops)
Im almost sure its by Tomy and its a mirror that can be attatched to the cot, and it repeats there words back to them, very good for their speach, my ds loved it.

I will try and find a link and post

Got that one wrong, its phillips

www.pocket-lint.co.uk/reviews/review_summary.phtml/1648/2672/philips-magic-mirror-childrens-toy.phtm l

saker

this mp3 player
also has a built-in digital voice recorder so you could kill two birds with one stone as it were.

I'd recommend a [[http://www.inclusive.co.uk/reports/2003/2switches.shtml switch so kids with PMLD can access electrical stuff.

You can also get very cheap small ones that thread into battery compartment of a battery operated ordinary toy and allow someone with less hand function to operate them.

See IT catalogue and/or ring up and ask for help. Too complex to naviagete alone unless you really know yuor switches.

Info. on switches from Inclusive Technology

Wannabe that looks really good. Thanks