Extreme clowning: U.K toy fair 24th - 26th Jan 2012 / importance of toys

Extreme Clowning will be sending 2 colleagues to the London toy fair

to research new products that will be out in the coming year.

And if any of the new items can be used in our work

One thing i have learnt is how toys can be so important.

To someone with no sight or sound they are the ideal object of reference, they are fantastic for triggering memories and creating smiles.
They also can create independence and creativity .
And all of this can be done between the toy and the player - no 3rd party is involved which is very important as a lot of these people always have to have someone with them for them to go about there daily tasks

so it is nice for them to be able to do somethings on there own

Every so often life provides very special people who are fully committed givers. These people put all others in front of themselves, and selflessly
use their energy to help the well being of those less fortunate than most of us. My compliments to Jonathan Lucia-Wright aka JJ... who has so
generously and selflessly given his life and energy towards those of us that far less fortunate. JJ has my unbending admiration for the work he is doing for the Deaf/blind.. JJ has been using our product Tangle in his work with the Deaf/blind with great results. we have marked behavioral improvements and happiness in the the individuals.. we are very fortunate to be able to further enable JJ to enhance his work with Tangle.

Jimmy learning about different illnesses in a fun way thanks to Giant microbes

Here is a photo of Jimmy who is both deaf and blind and has recently started to do jigsaws

Jimmy was born deaf and went blind at the age of 18 - he is now 43

Here is Jimmy discovering hex bugs for the first time

This is Jimmy plus his support in Metropolis toys

Searching for old action men figures that Jimmy used to have when he was a child, he could pair up his action mans boots by smell