Word: haydon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...projected on the wall changes its shape and color. The carpet and kaleidoscope are only two of 112 remarkable toys included in an audience-participation show that is about to tour England after drawing an enthusiastic response from handicapped children in London. The unique exhibition was organized by Roger Haydon, an industrial designer, and Jim Sandhu, a medically trained lecturer on problems of the handicapped. It was designed to demonstrate how blind, autistic, crippled and retarded children can be helped to cope with their biggest problem: isolation from an environment that they find frustrating and frightening. Abnormal children, Sandhu explains...
...remedy the situation, Haydon and Sandhu propose the use of toys to lure handicapped children into more normal activity. The "talking" carpet helps blind children to turn outside themselves for stimulation. So does the "buzz bubble," a plastic dome covered with electrodes that produce, on touch, sounds ranging from a low hum to a high whistle. The blind are also psychologically stimulated by the "tactile board," actually a big box with 35 compartments behind sliding doors that are finished in textured materials-sticks, beads, sandpaper, glass and felt. Tucking things away in the cubbyholes, blind children experience the thrill...
...most popular toys are the inflatables: an 8-foot-long sausage and a 10-foot-square air mattress that looks like an upside-down wading pool. They were designed by Haydon and Sandhu themselves, and are described by Sandhu as "therapeutically liberating" because they are "friendly, motherly, soft and safe" even while challenging the severely handicapped "to feel they can be mobile." One paralyzed six-year-old who has been using the inflatables for two years at the Mazehill Junior Training Center near London has taught himself to walk 100 feet unaided by practicing with the sausage, which he straddled...