At Learning Resources ® we make award-winning educational toys and games that help children learn through play. Our resources are recommended by teachers, trusted by parents, and loved by children.
All our toys and games are developed in collaboration with experts to be fun and engaging for children to play with and have educational benefits.
Here are some of the ways our toys and games can support learning through play for autistic children. Find these resources and others on the Learning Resources website.
Sensory play
Award-winning Playfoam® is a range of compounds that are ideal for sensory activities and fidget play. Children can squish, squash, and sculp original Playfoam which has a bead-like texture.
Playfoam Pluffle is soft, fluffy, squishable, and can be sifted through the fingers.
Playfoam Putty is a stretchable putty with Playfoam beads and makes satisfying popping sounds, and new Playfoam Sand can be sculpted and moulded like modelling clay and scooped and sifted like sand.
Communication and interaction
Children use the 26 expression pieces in the award-winning Big Feelings Pineapple™ to make faces on the pineapple and learn how facial expressions show what people are feeling.
With the hand-held See My Feelings Mirror, children look at real photos of other children expressing emotions (happy, surprised, scared, sad, silly, or angry) while being able to see their own faces in the mirror.
Managing anxiety and emotions
Help children learn to self-manage emotions with our range of social-emotional resources such as the Express Your Feelings Sensory Bottles.
Each bottle features an expression and is filled with liquid and material to create a flowing action that represents the emotion. (happy, sad, angry, and scared).
They are ideal for helping children calm down, manage anxiety, and express their feelings.
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