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EVERYDAY FUN GAME ACTIVITIES FOR CHILDREN WITH ASD

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1. Salt Dough Crafts Salt dough is non-toxic and technically edible dough that can be used just like Play-Dough, although it may not be a tasty (or healthy) treat, given its salt content. It is made from just three ingredients available in virtually every household; this project is easy for any rainy day or a scheduled activity. You can save your child’s creations by baking, or mush them back into dough that can be saved in a plastic container for another play session. Enhance the experience by adding food coloring before mixing or let children paint their baked creations later. Choices are limited only by imagination. 2. Pudding Painting Painting parties have never been so much fun or quite so delicious! All you need is a shower curtain liner and food coloring, and then use dyed pudding as the medium for your young artist. Add an extra shower curtain for floor protection, some choice kitchen utensils for “brushes,” and you’re set. Clean up is easy with a ...

KABUKI SYNDROME

Kabuki syndrome is a disorder that affects many parts of the body. It is characterized by distinctive facial features including Arched eyebrows, long eyelashes, long openings of the eyelids (long palpebral fissures) with the lower lids turned out (everted) at the outside edges, flat, broadened tip of the nose, large protruding earlobes. The name of this disorder comes from the resemblance of its characteristic facial appearance to stage makeup used in traditional Japanese Kabuki theater. Signs and symptoms Mild to severe developmental delay and intellectual disability. Affected individuals may also have seizures. An unusually small head size (microcephaly)or weak muscle tone (hypotonia). Some have eye problems such as rapid, involuntary eye movements (nystagmus) or eyes that do not look in the same direction (strabismus). Other characteristic features of Kabuki syndrome include short stature and skeletal abnormalities such as: ·       abnormal ...