To
a small child, therapeutic exercise can be more than a young
child wants to under go. Therapeutic for hands, arms, shoulders
sometimes mean squeezing a spring or rubber ball countless times,
day after day. A tedious task that even an adult would not care
for, and it certainly can't be fun for children. Larry watched
the kids squeezing and squeezing "1, 2, 3, 4.1, 2, 3, 4" until
the therapeutic exercise quickly became un-therapeutic.
Larry
picked up a tennis ball, cut a happy face into the ball, and
drew two
eyes and a nose with a magic marker. To a small child the ball
could be a new friend. When he tried it with several of the
children, they would squeeze the ball and almost without exception
began talking to it as if a playmate! Play time, or therapy?
Why not both? asked Larry.
I
now know why Tennis uses the word
LOVE in their game.
As
a parent, Larry's children's coloring art work are displayed
on the refrigerator in the kitchen, and enjoys seeing his children's
eyes light up when daddy goes wild over their drawing. He did
not see that same happiness in the eyes of many special children
while in hospital.
Larry
saw a need to help children with disabilities with their coloring
books. Many have trouble coloring within the outlined pictures.
I saw that disappointment in their hearts as they tried to stay
within the lines of the drawing.
There
had to be a way to help them help themselves while coloring.
Larry took an idea for his own business cards, and had a color
book made up with emboss ink. Now his special children can feel
the raised outlines of a drawing as they are coloring, permitting
them to color closer to and within the drawing outlines. When
he gave the book to several of these special children, their
eyes and faces were bright enough to light the Las Vegas Strip.
Embossed
ink coloring books.a simple idea to help Larry's special children
through "Self-Magic-Esteem", as Larry calls it, by turning a
coloring picture book challenge into a pass time of fun!
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To
a small child, therapeutic exercise can be more than a young
child wants to under go. Therapeutic for hands, arms, shoulders
sometimes mean squeezing a spring or rubber ball countless times,
day after day. A tedious task that even an adult would not care
for, and it certainly can't be fun for children. Larry watched
the kids squeezing and squeezing "1, 2, 3, 4.1, 2, 3, 4" until
the therapeutic exercise quickly became un-therapeutic. 
two
eyes and a nose with a magic marker. To a small child the ball
could be a new friend. When he tried it with several of the
children, they would squeeze the ball and almost without exception
began talking to it as if a playmate! Play time, or therapy?
Why not both? asked Larry.
I
now know why Tennis uses the word
As
a parent, Larry's children's coloring art work are displayed
on the refrigerator in the kitchen, and enjoys seeing his children's
eyes light up when daddy goes wild over their drawing. He did
not see that same happiness in the eyes of many special children
while in hospital. 
Larry
saw a need to help children with disabilities with their coloring
books. Many have trouble coloring within the outlined pictures.
I saw that disappointment in their hearts as they tried to stay
within the lines of the drawing. 
Embossed
ink coloring books.a simple idea to help Larry's special children
through "Self-Magic-Esteem", as Larry calls it, by turning a
coloring picture book challenge into a pass time of fun! 