Activities for Developmentally Challenged?

Question

Does anyone have any crafts, particular games or activities a developmentally challenged adult could play? (downsyndrome, scores of grade 4 mentallity)

Answer 1

Coloring, Balloon Volleyball, Macaroni Pictures, Puzzles (up to grade 3 usually work the best), Bingo, Fishing Game (The magnetized bait on the end of your line sticks firmly to your catch.), Bean Bags, Boy/Girl Toilet Paper Puppet, Paper Fortune Teller, Paper Plate Heart Wreath, ect.  There really are a number of things you can do with someone with a grade 4 mentality. Popsicle stick activities go well with just about any season/holiday, as well as paper plates.

Answer 2

Activities for the developmentally challenged? You could have them throw bean bags to each other while counting each throw. This will help develop their skills with math. Balloon tossing, finger painting, self portrait done in paint, they usually Iike that, as they get to see themselves in their art. Paper mache: use a none breakable item--ball, small or large, it doesn't matter. Have them make replica of that object. Memory cards that are large in print, reading books, larger printing at a grade 2-3 level. It makes a developmentally challenged person feel good about themselves, even if they only learn a few words. What is quite often a pleaser , at holiday times, is for them to pick a topic, wether it be a snowman, Santa clause, for Christmas, or a Turkey for Thanksgiving. It could be large piece puzzle put together by two or more persons, or colouring books that are water basted, the items in the book are pree painted, so, what they would need is a paint brush and  water. Watch their eyes lite up when they see what they have created? There are many more choices, but try these ones and see how they react to those!   Good luck in your endevours!!

Answer 3

My daughter is challenged at a slightly lower level.  She loves UNO and Sorry, both games without reading but still challenging.  300 piece jigsaw puzzles.  Copying text from books.  Reading.  Grade 4 is pretty darned advanced.

Answer 4

You didn't state the age, but one of my former students of several years was the text book version of Down's.  She was my only student with Down's and my only girl for years.  I found alot of age appropriate things for her in senior citizens activity books... like ones that therapists would use for stroke patients.  Bigger items  (thicker and print was larger) and it was simplified.  Appropriate for older students with MR.  Loved it.

She loved watercolors, latchhook and up/down stitching on the plastic canvases.  Hated clay.  Too tough for her weak hands, I think.  

She was also a  make-up & hair freak, so I found an old cosmetologist's practice head form for hair and make-up samples.  Her buddy for Special Olympics was actually a little jealous about this.  

We also had access to cheerleading videotapes and pom-poms.  It was like her own mini-workout.  

In a classroom full of boys, you gotta be creative.  :)

Answer 5

How about painting or modeling clay? Sorry, it's all I can think of at the moment

Answer 6

http://www.coolmath.com/math-practice-pr...

http://www.aaamath.com/

http://www.funbrain.com/kidscenter.html

http://www.kidsites.com/sites-edu/math.h...

http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/

Crafts:

http://www.dltk-kids.com/