This book considers closely visual impairment during pre-school years. It hones in on communication, body language, independent travel, play, making toys and sensory gardens.

PITTER PATTER offers practical strategies for maximising voice and touch to augment vision. It addresses problems associated with sleep, age appropriate independence to include dressing, feeding, meal times, movement and independent travel.

Because play is serious, significant and develops the entire person, we cover that too.

PITTER PATTER is one of a trilogy which also includes INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE and MANAGING THE NOISE.

All three have a strong emphasis on home education during pre-school years; that is, not replace statutory services but instead augment what should be available.

To encourage the vital area of communication, sensory and physical development each one is also crammed full of nursery rhymes, action songs and bed time stories.

CONTENTS

• INTRODUCTION
• ‘OLD MOTHER GOOSE’ AND ‘BETTY BOTTER BOUGHT SOME BUTTER’
• A POSSITIVE SELF-CONSEPT
• ‘NUMBERS’
• LOW VISION AND PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT – AN INTRODUCTION
• ‘COCK-CROW’ AND ‘WHEN CLOUDS APPEAR’
• PHYSICAL SUPPORT TO MAXIMISE VISION
• ‘ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE’ AND’IF BEES STAY AT HOME’
• BODY AWARENESS AND MOVEMENT
• ‘LITTLE BO-PEEP’, ‘A SWARM OF BEES’ AND ‘MACKERAL SKY’
• KNEELING
• ‘LONDON BRIDGE’
• CRAWLING
• ‘ORANGE AND LEMONS’ AND ‘THE PHILOSOPHER’
• STANDING AND WALKING
• ‘SWEET BLOOMING LAVENDER’ AND ‘PIG SHAVING’
• BALANCE
• ‘DAYS OF THE MONTH’ AND ‘HARVEST’
• POSTURE
• ‘HEALTHY, WEALTHY AND WISE’ AND ‘OH THAT I WERE’
• CRUISING AND TRAILING
• ‘DAPPLED GREY’ AND ‘WHAT’S IN THE CUPBOARD?’
• WALKING, RUNNING AND JUMPING
• ‘TWO BIRDS’ AND ‘PREVARICATION’
• INDEPENDENT TRAVEL – AN INTRODUCTION
• ‘JACK AND THE BEANSTALK’
• USING HANDS TO EXPLORE, DISCRIMINATE AND AUGMENT VISION
• ‘TO THE COCKOO’ , ‘A MAN IN THE WILDERNESS’ AND ‘MARCH WINDS AND APRIL SHOWERS’
• FEELING, GRASPING AND REACHING
• ‘THE TOY LAMB SELLER’ AND ‘AS I WAS GOING O’ER TIPPLE TINE’
• HAND SCANNING AND SEARCHING
• ‘RACE STARTING’
• LOW VISION AND HAND CONTROL
• ‘THE THREE JOVIAL WELSHMEN’
• PLAY AND DEVELOPMENT – AN INTRODUCTION
• ‘BETTY BLUE’ AND ‘AS I WAS GOING TO St. IVES’
• CATEGORIES OF PLAY
• ‘Mr. EAST’S FEAST’ AND ‘I NEED NOT YOUR NEEDLES’
• SETTINGS, PLAY AND DEVELOPMENT
• ‘Mrs. MASON’S BASIN’ AND ‘A SHOEMAKER MAKES SHOES WITHOUT LEATHER’
• LEARNING TO SIT UP
• ‘THREE GRAY GEESE‘ ‘GOOD, BETTER, BEST’ AND ‘I’M CALLED BY THE NAME OF A MAN’
• RELATING ONE THING TO ANOTHER
• ‘THINGS WILL COME RIGHT’ AND ‘MOSES SUPPOSES HIS TOESES ARE ROSES’
• FROM DROPPING AN OBJECT TO CONTROLED RELEASE
• ‘ONE THING AT A TIME’ AND ‘PURPLE, YELLOW, RED AND GREEN’
• HIGHLIGHTING CAUSE AND EFFECT
• ‘PETER PIPER’ AND ‘A WISE OLD OWL’
• SLEEP PROBLEMS AND TIPS TO MANAGE
• ‘FOR WANT OF A NAIL’
• HOME MADE TOYS – AN INTRODUCTION
• ‘WHEN THE WIND IS IN THE EAST’
• ‘DEW ON THE GRASS’ AND ‘SUNNY SHOWER’
• DIY EQUIPMENT FOR DEVELOPING THE SENSES
• ‘SANDY’ AND ‘SUKEY, YOU SHALL BE MY WIFE’
• SENSORY GARDENS
• ‘A FARMYARD SONG’
• INDEX
• BOOKS IN THE SERIES