Texture board.

After our experience at church, when Carson was unable to feel anything in his hands while blindfolded, we realized that he had some tactile hyposensitivity. He needs to build his sensitivity and tactile discrimination which will help him know how to hold a pencil, crayon, or marker. How hard to squeeze glue or when he is older be able to reach in his pocket and tell the difference between a quarter and penny. It is a very important ability to have. In order to foster his tactile discrimination I made him a texture board. I got the idea from a friend of mine, her son made a bunch of these for the school for the deaf and blind, they are used as a prereader for brail. They are made by using a 16inx16in plastic pegboard found at your local hardware store. After choosing your fabrics, each should have a different texture you can design whatever you want. My son LOVES pirates so I chose a pirate ship. You simply cut and hot glue it together. It costed about $5 bucks for the board and I got the fabric from my friend but finding scraps at the local craft store is easy and cheap. I still need to add the sea shells but once I do his will have around 28 different textures. There are rough ones like sandpaper, fluffy ones like the cloud, bubble wrap is bumby, silky, smooth and so much more. It was an easy project and Carson really likes it.