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This uniquely designed trampoline provides several features that lessen the risk of injury. The frame is below the jumping surface so there are no hard surfaces for a jumper to come in contact with. It has no springs, but rather fiberglass rods that flex with each jump. The rods are found below the jumping surface and supporting the net enclosure. The net enclosure is made from FlexiNet, which flexes with movement and absorbs an impact.
Approx. Price: $1,649.00 Box Age Range: None listed # of Pieces: 1 Washability: Surface Wipe Storability: Directions: Simple Play Locations: Outdoor Adjustability: None Levels of Play: One Level Batteries: None needed
Tactilely Stimulating
Wide Age Range
Large Openings
High Quality
Connects/Assembles Securely
Soothing
Promotes Active Play
One-Piece Unit
Large Target Area
Oversized
Developmental processes promoted
Cause and Effect
Action Concepts e.g. In/Out, Push/Pull, On/Off, Go/Stop
The FlexiNet enclosure defines the focused play space for a child.
Jumping helps bones become stronger and stay denser.
Jumping can help improve muscle tone.
Circulation can be improved by movement in the trampoline.
Jumping in the trampoline can help increase energy.
Skills
Jumping can help increase sensory awareness.
Jumping can help affect proprioception (the sense of one’s body in relation to itself, muscles and joints).
Jumping can help affect vestibular action (the sense of one’s body in space).
Confidence in movement can be increased as most children are able to bounce at some level.
Receptive language and following directions can be a part of play when children are given simple verbal instructions to follow such as, “sit” or “stand”. String a series of positions to encourage memory, recall and sequencing skills. This activity can easily incorporate children who have visual impairments.
Incorporate body awareness and imitation skills by holding up a picture of how a child should jump – sit, stand, knees, etc. The pictures can help children who have hearing impairments access and enjoy the activity.
Play Ideas
Use the trampoline as a reward or motivation for completing a task. Or have children bank up jump time by reading or doing chores.
Adaptation Ideas
Walk a child around the outside of the trampoline and then again on the inside perimeter of the trampoline so she/he can get a feel for the size and parameters of their jumping space.
Continuously use verbal communication and sounds to help a child with visual impairments know where others are in the trampoline.
The FlexiNet enclosure defines the focused play space for a child.
Whole body workouts can help stimulate vocalizations and verbalizations in children.
Many children with Autism prefer independent movement to hands-on assistance. Using the Trampoline, a parent, teacher or therapist can affect the child’s body from a greater distance by moving or bouncing the surface area.
Jumping helps bones become stronger and stay denser.
Jumping can help improve muscle tone.
Circulation can be improved by movement in the trampoline.
Jumping in the trampoline can help increase energy.
Skills
Motor processing – being able to integrate movement and sensory input – can be encouraged through jumping in the trampoline.
Confidence in movement can be increased as most children are able to bounce at some level.
Receptive language and following directions can be a part of play when children are given simple verbal instructions to follow such as, “sit” or “stand”. String a series of positions to encourage memory, recall and sequencing skills.
Play Ideas
Use the trampoline as a reward or motivation for completing a task. Or have children bank up jump time by reading or doing chores.
Children can verbally name things they see through the netting as they bounce and spin around on the trampoline.
Children are better able to focus and attend to cognitive tasks after they have had a whole body workout. This trampoline can provide that workout.
Jumping on the Trampoline can help calm a child who has difficulty regulating his activity level. If children are unable to sit still, jumping on the Trampoline can help give their muscles and joints the pressure and input necessary to regulate their bodies and settle down.
Jumping helps bones become stronger and stay denser.
Jumping can help improve muscle tone.
Circulation can be improved by movement in the trampoline.
Jumping in the trampoline can help increase energy.
Skills
Children can gain an understanding of cause and effect as they jump and feel the response to that jump.
Children can learn action concepts such as go/stop and in/out through active means.
Turn taking and waiting are introduced when more than one child wants to jump.
Active communication is required and heightened when children are in the trampoline at the same time.
Math concepts can come into play as children count each jump.
Confidence in movement can be increased as most children are able to bounce at some level.
Play Ideas
Give the children a sequence of actions to execute in the trampoline such as jumping on “feet, feet, knees, feet, bottom.” This list can be longer or shorter depending on a child’s ability. This activity helps strengthen listening, memory and sequencing skills.
Use the trampoline as a reward or motivation for completing a task. Or have children bank up jump time by reading or doing chores.
Put scarves of different colors on the bottom of the trampoline and call out colors for the child to find and pick up for color learning.
The Trampoline is fully enclosed with mesh enabling a child to jump without risk of falling off. This can also provide a sense of freedom and independence for a child with physical limitations (perhaps by lying flat).
The large size of the trampoline allows for children to access and enjoy it in a variety of positions (lying flat, sitting, or standing).
Jumping in the Trampoline can help reduce stress.
Jumping helps bones become stronger and stay denser.
Jumping can help improve muscle tone.
Circulation can be improved by movement in the trampoline.
Jumping in the trampoline can help increase energy.
Skills
Muscle strength can be positively impacted when children jump on the trampoline.
Jumping on the Trampoline can help improve coordination and balance.
Balance and balance reactions can be practiced and further developed when an adult disturbs the balance by pressing on the surface of the trampoline, encouraging and stimulating a reaction from the child.
Confidence in movement can be increased as most children are able to bounce at some level.
Play Ideas
Use the trampoline as a reward or motivation for completing a task. Or have children bank up jump time by reading or doing chores.
Encourage a child to alter, and thus control, the strength used to jump – jump softly, jump hard, jump high, jump fast, jump slow.
