The Importance of Using Educational Toys: An Overview

January 17th, 2009

Educational Toys from LA Toy StoreProfessional occupational therapists, infant teachers and responsible day care providers use these developmental toys so that the quality of care is not compromised. Through these educational toys, they are able to trigger healthy, fun based learning and value rebalancing for children who are normal and also for children who have special needs because they are autistic.

How Educational Toys Serve Multiple Functions

Toys have multiple functions that are specific to a child’s age group. A child learns that toys can be bounced, shaken, twisted, tossed, molded and much more. This goes on to increase a child understands of the functionality of objects as well.

Occupational therapy has done wonders to motivate children. Fun based learning through educational toys is the strategy they use. This strategy helps children to learn new concepts and discover hidden talents. The use of such toys helps children who are autistic as well. This is because therapeutic toys and autistic toys give these unique children an opportunity to try new activities and use their imagination to learn. It also endows them with confidence to touch new things and learn what to do with them.

Infant teachers rely on developmental toys that offer children a sense of control and accomplishment. Children learn to understand geometrical shapes, gravity, balance and science. These educational toys contribute immensely to developing an infant’s sensory, perceptual and visual skills. By touching and looking at these vivid colored toys, children learn to understand how things work and how to relate to their environment. That is how gradually infant teachers let their nurture the children under their care.

Fun Based Learning through Therapeutic Toys

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CPSIA: True Spirit But Wrong Implementation

January 16th, 2009

The U.S. Congress very rightly pointed out the safety hazards of toys being imported especially from China. And in the same vein, the Congress passed the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) in 2008. Two main clauses of this act were about banning the lead and phthalates in toys and secondly it mandated a third-party testing and certification for all toys. Thirdly it also make it requirement for toy makers to label each toy with a date and batch number. As far as overall spirit of this CPSIA is very much correct and much needed but it simply ignores very important variation in toys making industry.

These new changes are far simpler for those manufacturers who are working on a very large scale to simply modify or add few steps in their toy production process. Also adding these simple steps like labeling or adding batch number for them is not a big problem because of their large production and cost for such action is minimal if we talk of thousand toy production in a day. But what about those toymakers who are working at very small level but producing the state-of-art toys which are proven to be completely safe for children. Here CPSIA completely ignore this fact and demand for every toy producer to follow the act in totality. Now let us talk about the testing cost if it is done by any third-party as mentioned in CPSIA. It is estimated that fee for such testing could reach about $300-$400 fee per toy in order to sell any toy.

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