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A game for learning to identify facial expressions from icons and associating them with photos of real expressions.
Occupational therapists
If you are an occupational therapist and you work helping both children and adults to recover their movements or they can resume their daily activities in an autonomous and effective way, here you will find games that can be useful in your sessions.
We offer educational materials and games that will help you to develop, among other things, psychomotor skills, senses, viso-spatial coordination, memory, attention and the organization of time. Don't miss them!
Skills Development Games
Set of puzzle-sequences: the three little pigs and cinderella (2 units)
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A set of eight wooden puzzles divided into two classic fairy tales. Each tale is based on a wooden support which includes four puzzles with attractive illustrations that narrate the story in time sequences.
Throw the dice and fill the corresponding bus with the passengers, matching the picture on the dice to the picture on the side of the bus.
Ergonomic awl for practising psychomotor skills. Promotes early writing skills. Suitable for left- and right-handed children.
Designed in collaboration with the Polytechnic University of Valencia
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300 counters in 6 different colours for practising colour classification using the 4 large dice.
Throw the two dice and look for a card where the child is dressed in those colours. An easy game for learning colours and sharpening observation skills.
A game of observation and handling which allows children to discover the properties of magnetism by replicating the cards with the magnetic rings.
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A board for planning everyday activities at both home and school, associating them with the hours of the day in both the AM/PM and 24-hour-clock versions.
A weekly calendar to introduce very young children to the concept of time, distinguishing between yesterday, today and tomorrow. You can position the days of the week and the month.
It includes simple three-step time sequences and pictures of the weather.
A big metallic board for working in the classroom on the days of the week, the months, the year, the seasons, the time and the different activities that take place during class time.
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Throw the dice and let your imagination run wild. Make up stories with the characters, animals, objects and actions that appear on the dice.
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A game for learning to construct sentences with up to 90 pictograms of characters from classic childrens stories. Build lots of sentences with 15 dice which, depending on their colour, represent the different elements of a sentence.
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Contains 10 dice which can be customized with more than 100 stickers for practising basic concepts such as animals, the five senses, the emotions, numbers from 1 to 10, geometric figures, vehicles, addition and subtraction, etc.
Roll-up erasable metallic board. Practical and light. It allows writing and/or playing with magnetic cards.
It includes magnets in order to fix the board on the wall.
9 magnetic bands with one adhesive side for turning any counter into a magnet.
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Set of 4 games of different degrees of difficulty based on the coordinate system (double input), to promote logical-mathematical thinking, addressing set theory, association, correspondence, inclusion...
Set of 4 games of different degrees of difficulty based on the coordinate system (double input), to promote logical-mathematical thinking, addressing set theory, association, correspondence, inclusion...
A display panel made from very hard-wearing plasticized canvas with transparent bands. A very useful piece of equipment for daily teaching tasks.
Comprises 5 wood trays for working basic concepts: food, farm animals, facial expressions, left and right and spatial orientation.
Identify and classify according to your needs. Includes 28 identifying stickers + 25 labels.
Salt for handicraft work only. Particle size of between 0.12 and 0.60 mm. White and odourless. Composed mainly of sodium chloride and anti-caking agent. Suitable for use by children and 100% safe.
Game of observation and cooperation for learning to count. Look at the fun pictures in the puzzles, find the number of birds shown on the cards and mark them with the hoop. Count them and complete the task as you play in a team with your friends.
This game develops attention and concentration!
Inclusive association game for discovering primary and secondary colours. Roll the dice and complete the colour wheels with real-world photographs. It encourages inclusion in the classroom. Includes the ColorADD® graphical colour identification system for colour-blind people.
If colour is for all, the game is for everyone!
A game for learning to count from 1 to 10 in a hands-on way. Complete the 10 puzzles, count the elements in the pictures and complete the boards with the round counters up to the indicated number. And see how to break down numbers in a visual, intuitive way.
Learn to count with real pictures!
Discover geometric shapes using your senses in a hands-on, creative way. Learn the shapes using action cards, tactile trails, puzzles, constructions, recognising geometric shapes in real life and large pieces to join together using the laces.
Spin the wheels and learn geometric shapes through fun challenges!
Game with real-world images to recognise, accept and validate the emotions we might feel in different situations. It helps us learn that we aren't all the same and sometimes feel different emotions in the same situation. It encourages empathy and respect for emotions in oneself and in others.
Roll the dice, look at a situation and share your emotions!
Spin the wheels, look at the pictures and let your imagination run wild! Includes 8 themed wheels with real-world images, 2 rewritable wheels, an erasable marker and cards with icons for assigning the wheels and saying whose turn it is.
Work in a group to create amazing stories together!
Pack of 4 wooden ECO puzzles of 24 pieces each. Includes: the classroom, the playground, the dining room and the gymnasium. Develops manual dexterity, fine motor skills, attention and concentration. Encourages the observation of inclusive situations and fosters an attitude of respect for diversity.
Pack of 4 ECO puzzles of 24 pieces each to work on observation. Develops attention and concentration. Includes: spring, summer, autumn and winter.
Search and find all the items on the frame in the puzzle!
Pack of 4 ECO puzzles of 15 pieces each to work on observation. Develops attention and concentration. Includes: Little Red Riding Hood, The Three Little Pigs, Puss in Boots and Pinocchio.
Search and find all the items on the frame in the puzzle!
Occupational therapy for children with learning difficulties
Akros' materials for occupational therapy serve to enhance the child's ability to act and promote his or her vital interests at home, in school and in society. For children, play is their way of knowing the world and allows them to develop their emotional, mental and physical abilities. The occupational therapist ensures that children with learning difficulties reach the age-appropriate level of maturity by training them in these skills.
The key to therapy is symbolic play. From the second year of life, when the child plays, he often imitates what happens in reality by pretending to be an object, or by representing actions or situations that are not present thanks to his imagination. Children begin to conceptualize abstract relationships with real-life symbols and references, and play becomes a fundamental mode of mental representation.
Benefits of play in occupational therapy
The games in which the child plays roles, or relational games, typical of therapy, are as versatile as they are simple; factors that do not detract from their effectiveness. Therapy games can address different objectives and work on competitiveness, imagination, physical movement, expressiveness, intelligence or ingenuity; and consist of individual or group activities. In the Akros catalogue, specialists will find toys that will entertain and capture the interest of the children involved in the different therapies.
Through the playful activities of occupational therapy, each person has the opportunity to explore, recreate and develop new roles and to break down negative linkages in a fun way. Spontaneity stimulates patterns of rupture, transformations and risks of change. Akros games for occupational therapists work on the child's spontaneity and creativity, and these two characteristics cannot exist without each other. Spontaneity is a characteristic of human beings, especially in children, who are naturally inclined towards activities that give them satisfaction. In fact, therapy with a child with learning difficulties is impossible if the activities are not playful for the child.
Occupational Therapy is based on games and activities where daily activities are symbolized, always keeping the playful atmosphere. Playing eliminates the stress of situations that are represented in the game, the child gets a sense of self-control and control of the situation, and gets to exercise his fantasy. When the young person reinforces his or her self-image, motivation increases and he or she enters a virtuous circle of personal evolution.