26 March 2015
Every Nursery, School And Family Should Play Its Own ‘Face Picture Pairs’ Card Game
Specialists recommend every
family, nursery and school to test children for face perception
disorders with a personalised picture pairs card game with faces of
classmates or family.
Based on recent scientific reports, it is now recommended to
test children more widely for prosopagnosia, generally known as face
blindness.
A creative tool to test
for face blindness
are bespoke picture
pairs
card games.
These card games are sold under the name 'Foto Memo'® and promote
the mental development, sorting, mental image rotation, matching and
develop memory skills. Encoding of novel picture pairs activates the
perirhinal cortex (a region of the brain involved in visual
perception and memory) and is a real memory
jogger for all ages.
Other photo
products recommended by neurologists to families, nurseries and
schools are birthday
calendars,
photo books and group photographs. Read more in the report
http://iitm.be/faceblnd
, with much information on the issue and many helpful recommendations
on how to use portrait pictures to diagnose prosopagnosia and help
sufferers.
Match the picture pairs of
familiar faces
Printing a
personal ‘Foto Memo’® picture pairs game from digital images is
as easy as buying photo prints online. A set of ‘Foto Memo’®
cards of 25 picture
pairs
costs only £12.99 plus £2.99 delivery at
http://fotoinsight.co.uk/gifts/toys---games/picture-pairs-game.html
within the UK (or €16.99 plus €4.99 delivery from
http://fotoinsight.ie/gift-ideas/toys-and-games/photo-memo.html
to Ireland and most European countries). For prosopagnosia
sufferers, such picture pairs cards can also be used like flashcards
in training vocabulary, but with the pictures of the faces of the
people they want to learn to recognise.
Decorating with portrait
pictures
Portrait
pictures of pupils, educators, teachers and staff decorate many
school halls and classrooms. They help face blind children develop
strategies to distinguish individual faces. For the prosopagnosia
sufferers, specialists recommend making group pictures of similar
looking faces. FotoInsight offers poster
print
(from £1,99 plus p&p), fancy gallery print, foam board prints,
acrylic
prints
and elegant aluminium dibond mounted posters.
Birthday calendars
Calendars
with birthday portraits decorate many classrooms and are a special
way to remember and celebrate birthdays.
Portrait album
If portrait
pictures have been taken for the home, classroom, school gallery or
picture pairs or a birthday calendar, then creating a “face book”
or portrait album will be an exciting project and is easily done.
FotoInsight photographic paper photo
albums
are a top end product, with an extra-strong bind. This allows
children (e.g. the face blind) to take such a portrait album home to
learn to distinguish their peers. It is also a popular, hard
copy
time capsule, of which most parents will be keen to acquire and
preserve
a
print.
Photo booklets start from £5.99
(plus delivery). Photographic paper photobooks
start from £21.95
(plus delivery).
Labels: face blindness, faces, from own photographs, nursery, personalised memory, photo games, photo memo, picture pairs, primary school, print, prosopagnosia, testing
