{"id":488,"date":"2019-09-25T10:34:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T10:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/autismadvisors\/?page_id=488"},"modified":"2019-09-25T10:34:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T10:34:43","slug":"fidget-toys","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/autismadvisors\/working-with-children-and-young-people\/sensory\/vestibular\/fidget-toys\/","title":{"rendered":"Fidget Toys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of our children struggle to sit still and again become anxious.\u00a0 They might move around a lot, touch people next to them, chew their clothes etc.\u00a0 Offering a fiddle toy can help with this as it will offer a form of comfort, provide sensory stimulation that the need and distraction. Fiddling with a toy does not mean that they are not listening or attending. It is a support. This would need to be gauged as some children will simply play and not attend. It is about finding out what works best for the child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of our children struggle to sit still and again become anxious.\u00a0 They might move around a lot, touch people next to them, chew their clothes etc.\u00a0 Offering a fiddle toy can help with this as it will offer a form of comfort, provide sensory stimulation that the need and distraction. Fiddling with a toy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/autismadvisors\/working-with-children-and-young-people\/sensory\/vestibular\/fidget-toys\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fidget Toys<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9177,"featured_media":0,"parent":483,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-488","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/autismadvisors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/autismadvisors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/autismadvisors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/autismadvisors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/autismadvisors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/autismadvisors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":783,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/autismadvisors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/488\/revisions\/783"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/autismadvisors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/autismadvisors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}