A Boodle of Doodles

AU$ 455.75
{ Prices include postage in Australia and GST }

60 components. Pre-school to Year 3 level.

Designed for pre-school primary (hereditary) and secondary (trauma) dyslexia sufferers so that early schoolroom failure in printing, reading and numbers is greatly alleviated.

The ABOD is a giant drawstring bag containing 3 non-book large-scale components of door-sized cloth pages, cylinders, and scrolls for matching and multi-sensory work with humour and animal themes. Advanced components are book-workbook and a rhyming reader to culminate with.

The reader and non-book parts contain vocabulary, which dyslectics commonly confuse. Processing this along with fun caricatures of animals and circus people in a holistic, multi-sensory mode (see/hear/feel/say) focuses and reinforces the difficult things. Prevention is better than cure.

Though large, the boodle compresses to accommodate well in large or small spaces. It can be used on lawn or carpet depending on circumstances. It is for creative minders of children in families where spelling, reversals, writing, reading are a problem. Also play schools, kindergartens, teaching colleges et al who would appreciate the applied psychology practicality of the system when world concern on the 3 Rs matches medical science advances in retention of premature and other at risk babies.

The Boodle prepares for school by semi-formal, large format, number, picture and word experiences using huge, rough-textured pages, scrolls, cylinders and three dimensional items and cards for manipulation of these.

The auditory, visual and tactile senses are involved simultaneously as much as possible. Colour coding is used and students progress gently from caricature animal pictures to single sounds through to sentences of an appropriately basic kind.

The gradual progression from purely pictorial to coherent sentence and number usage is in game form managed on the floor where users crawl about the large 'canvases' to complete skills. Yet embedded in the naivety are the most frequently recurring symbols which confuse early school goers across the range of intelligence - particularly if they are dyslectic.

The Boodle provides a bridge between the informality of kindergarten and the very formal and demanding life of year one at a regular infant school. The Boodle is easy to drive so is not intimidating to relatives or lay helpers at home or in lay group situations.

A Boodle of Doodles is for all four year olds, non-readers, victims of look and say visual method, accident victims, mild stroke sufferers who need to begin again so that their talents can emerge.

From the cottage to the castle to the tree house in the great outdoors, lawn, wall, table, A Boodle of Doodles can be spread out for use then compressed, reboodled and hung on a nail behind a door or on a wall. It squeezes up small and expands.

Kindergartens, play schools, city and rural homes, hospitals, clinics will all suit nicely.

Enjoy it and save later school woes, to assist recovery of language.