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Create your own chewable jewellery:
Primary Focus: Eye-hand coordination, dexterity, calming.
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Have a student string cereal pieces onto liquorice, or string, to make a necklace. The student can wear the necklace when working on activities that require attention, chewing on the cereal pieces as desired
Useful Equipment for the Gustatory System
["Arc Brick Bracelet," skillbuilders.com.au]
["Arc Dino-Bite Necklace," skillbuilders.com.au]
["Chewy Tubes," therapystore.com.au]
Specifically designed chewable jewellery and toys are useful for providing socially acceptable and safe chewing. These items can also provide unique, textures for stimulating tactile receptors in the mouth.
Blowing up balloons, blowing bubbles and blowing pinwheels (etc.) provide organising behaviour to the muscles of the mouth. This also helps strengthen oral motor muscles necessary for eating. Overall, activities that involve blowing thereby initiate a sense of calm in most students.​
["Edible Cereal Necklace," pintrest.com.au]
["Pinwheel," premierkites.com]
["Blizzard," skillbuilders.com.au]
Precautions: Always read safety instructions, always supervise, replace if damaged, wash regularly