Exciting news from The Bright Ideas Outfit!  Drop the Spot has just been launched. It is a unique mouth co-ordination game designed by speech and language therapist, Bronwen Campbell and myself.  It is being manufactured and marketed by Smile Education in South Africa, and can be ordered through your nearest Smile consultant from 3 September (011) 477-1013, or contact me on brightideas@powerpt.co.za.

This fun and challenging game requires the players to suck discs onto the end of a special whistling straw and then drop them on the correct spot on their playing boards in order to match the pattern on the task card they are copying.

The game works important muscles in the mouth, lips, cheeks and tongue through the actions of sucking, holding breath, breathing, swallowing, lip pursing and general mouth co-ordination.  By doing this over and over, children are laying the foundations for good speech development.     

Skills covered in this game:

1. Mouth co-ordination for speech
2. Visual processing skills ( figure ground perception,   discrimination,    matching, one-to-one correspondence,     copying,    spatial planning,    counting,   visual memory)
3. Fine motor skills ( eye-mouth co-ordination,   eye-hand co-ordination,   motor planning)
4. Problem solving
5. Task completion
6. Concentration
7. Motivation
8. Competition

Drop the Spot is fun and challenging for both old and young.  It can be played by one or two players.  It includes colour, shape, number and letter patterns.               

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